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White light contains all colors. It can be split using a prism (a transparent body, like glass, anything that refracts light, as a drop of water). The colors are then seen as individual wavelengths as the colors: red,orange,yellow,green, blue, indigo, and violet. For example, sunlight passing through droplets of water in the atmosphere after a thunderstorm, producing a rainbow is a good demonstration of how the different colors of light are made.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoVisible light waves are made when a photon is emitted from a source and has a frequency, or the correct am mount of energy, to create visible light at a specific color.
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∙ 11y agoA spectrum of colours can be produced when the light passes through a prism.
Example: rainbow
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What spreads light into its own indiviual colors?
A prism spreads light into different colors (a rainbow). A prism is made out of mainly glass or plastic. Metallic Thunder
Different colors are the result of different what?
varying speeds different colors of light travel
How white light produced different colors?
White light doesn't produce different colors. The only way to make white light is tocombine light with all of the different colors. So if you already have white light, allof the colors are already there. You only have to separate them in order to see them.
Is a rainbow a transverse or compression wave?
A rainbow is made of different wavelengths (different colors) of light waves, and light waves are usually considered transverse waves.
Light of different wavelengths is different colors?
Yes that is true. Different wavelengths means different colors. The amplitude of the wave determines how bright the light is.
How do different colors of light travel?
Different Colors Of Light Travel At Different Speeds.
A is an object that separates visible light into the many different colors the light is made up of?
i think its a prism
How do you know that light is made of colors?
Because if the light wasn't made out of different colours you wouldn't be able to see it. It would be invisible.
How do prisms work?
Refraction is when light bends through an object. White light is made up of all the colors of the spectrum. Different colors have different wavelengths, therefore they bend at different angles. So when white light passes through a prism the different colors bend at different angles, so they separate to produce the rainbow of light that we see.
What spreads light into its own indiviual colors?
A prism spreads light into different colors (a rainbow). A prism is made out of mainly glass or plastic. Metallic Thunder
What is a Range of light of different colors and different wavelengths?
I believe that a range of light of different colors and different wavelengths is a spectrum.
Who said that white light is made up of different colors?
Newton demonstrated this with his prism.
WHY DO rainbows have colours for kids?
Rainbows have colors because sunlight is made up of different colors of light. When sunlight passes through raindrops, it gets refracted and reflects inside the raindrop, separating the light into its different colors. This creates the spectrum of colors that we see in a rainbow.
How does refraction make color?
White light is made up of different colors. When white light enters water (like moisture in the air) it is bent (refracted). However the different colors are bent (refracted) by different amounts. So this different amount of bending has the effect of separating the white light into its colors and we see this as a rainbow.lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
How can you show that visible light is made up of many different wavelength?
A prism will separate visible light into its component colors.
Different colors are the result of different what?
varying speeds different colors of light travel
How white light produced different colors?
White light doesn't produce different colors. The only way to make white light is tocombine light with all of the different colors. So if you already have white light, allof the colors are already there. You only have to separate them in order to see them.
