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Blue light enters the prism and is refracted (bent) by the glass and emerges as blue light on the other side. Blue light is bent (refracted) most due to its slow(er) speed than say Red light which is faster and has a longer wavelength. Newton did an experiment like this and concluded that white light was made up of different colours of light together. Shine a white light through a prism and it will emerge as all the colours of the rainbow. Blue light is unchanged as it consists only of blue light Answered by Chris Banks.

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What happens when red light hits a prism?

A prism demonstrates this principle?no never ifsfrdi


Why is white light dispersed by a glass prism?

When white light(composite light) consisting of various colors is passed through a prism, light of different colors will be deviated through different angles. Since the deviation is related to refractive index and refractive index to the color of light the deviation produced for different colors are different for same prism.That is the refractive indices are different for the various colors and this difference in the refractive indices is responsible for dispersion.


What affect does a different colored light bulb have on a prism?

A prism will split light into its component colors. If a colored light is used, there will be less colors in the split light. A beam from a red light for instance will have very little blue or green light in it so you will not get the full spectrum from the prism.


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.


Can light be separated into colors?

Using a prism a beam of light can generally be defracted into the different colors that make up that beam of light. The visible spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet can often be seen.

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What happens when light passes through the prism in wrong angle?

There is no 'wrong angle' - it either passes through the prism or it doesn't. The blue or violet waves will be the most diffracted.


What happens when light is shone through a prism?

It depends on the shape of the prism and the angle of incidence. For prism in the shape of an equilateral triangle the white light splits into the colours of the spectrum as red light is slowed down less than blue in glass, so the red light is bent less than the blue


Which colour refracts more in a prism yellow or blue?

Blue refracts the most in a prsm than yellow


What happens to the spectrum if a red light shines on a prism?

When red light shines on a prism, it will refract and disperse into its component colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) due to their different wavelengths. This creates a spectrum of colors known as a rainbow.


What color is refracted most when passing through a prism?

Blue light is refracted the most when passing through a prism, followed by green, yellow, orange, and red light in that order. This is due to the different wavelengths of the colors, with blue light having the shortest wavelength and being bent the most as it passes through the prism.


What happens when mixes different light together to a prism?

If you separate "white" light in a prism, you get the visible spectrum, (ROYGBIV). If you get that back together, you get "white" light. If you mix red and blue, you get purple, and so on.


Why does white light change colour when it passes through a prism?

It doesn't. What happens is that the colors that are already in it are separated by the prism. It's basically because short waves (blue) are refracted more than long waves (red).


What happens when red light hits a prism?

A prism demonstrates this principle?no never ifsfrdi


What colour is refracted most by a prism?

Violet light is refracted the most by a prism, followed by blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. This dispersion of light creates a rainbow effect when white light passes through a prism.


When white light passes through a prism what color bends the most?

Blue light bends the most when white light passes through a prism because it has a shorter wavelength compared to other colors in the visible spectrum.


What happeneds when light passes through a prism?

When light passes through a prism, it is refracted slightly and separated into seven individual beams of coloured light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.


What happens when light passes a prism?

When light passes through a prism, it is refracted slightly and separated into seven individual beams of coloured light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.