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What word describes the splitting of light into the colours of the spectrum?
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Dispersion of white light...
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When light is refracted through a prism different colours emerge where do the different colours come from?
Type your answer here... OK. White light is made of the colours of the spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet - these are the same as the colours of the rainbow). The reason you see these colours instead of wwhite when you shine white light through a prism is that the prism "bends" the light - which splits it into the colours of the spectrum. Red light is the longest, so it is bent the least, and Violet is the shortest - so it is bent the most. This is also how rainbows are made - the rain droplets act as prisms to disperse (split) the light into the colours of the spectrum.
What is another name often used for spectrum?
The visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What colors of light do you not see when you look at a green leaf?
reddish
What is Ramanathan-molecular scattering of light in fluids?
The Ramanathan scattering of light is the phenomen of visible light scaterring into the 7 different invisible colours of light, when it comes in contact with water, the water sufficing as a glass spectrum to diffract the light into the colours. This phenomenon takes place naturally after rain as the rainbow appears.
White light can be separated into spectrum of colors because each color of light?
Has a different wavelength and energy. At the red end of the spectrum the wavelength is longer and frequency is lower, it will be less easily refracted than light towards the blue end of the spectrum, which is higher in frequency and has a shorter wavelength. The separation of the colours is called dispersion.
What is the splitting of light in to a range of colours called?
DISPERSION
What is splitting of light into component colours by a prism?
Its is known as dispersion of light.
What name is giving to this splitting up of white light?
A Spectrum.
Splitting white light into different colors?
Splitting white light into different colours is an optical phenomenon called Dispersion.
What is The spreading of light into its different colours?
Its a spectrum
What light that contans all the colours of the spectrum?
"White" light.
What is light that contains all the colours of the spectrum?
White light
Light that contains all the colours of the spectrum?
White light.
What is the difference between refraction and dispersion?
refraction is when light bends because of the change in desity, dispersion is white light that splits in a prism inot the colours of the spectrum (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet) so refraction is light changing direction and dispersion is white light splitting inot the colours of the spectrum (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet).
What is also known as the visible spectrum?
The visible spectrum is the light we can see with our own eyes. The colours of the rainbow.
What is meant by spectrum wave?
Spectrum = the band of colours produced when light is split into its component frequencies
Who invented the spectrum?
Sir Isaac Newton, he of gravity fame, also did work on spectra. He wrote a treatise named 'Optics', where he demonstrated the splitting of white light into the colours of the rainbow.
