What happens when white light passes through the prism?

Answer 1

light passing through a prism is refracted twice-once when it enters and once when it exits. white light can be separated into different colors (ROYGBIV) during refraction. color separation is responsible for rainbows

Answer 2

After doing some research, I found out when white light passes through a prism, "R.O.Y.G.B.I.V." shows up. {red,orange,yellow,green,blue,indigo, and violet.}As white light passes though a prism the light is bent into different colors
thus this is called visible light spectrum.

Answer 3

Well, light is made up of 3 primary colours: red, blue and green. When two of these primary colours are mixed, they create a secondary colour. When all of them are mixed, they create white light.

Yellow is an example of a secondary colour. It is made up of red and green. When light hits a prism, it changes speed, and thus direction. When this happens, the light is split into what it is made up of; in your case red and green. This action is called light dispersion.

Put in even simpler terms: the yellow light will split into red and green.

Answer 4

The path of any light beam is deviated (bent) as it goes from one medium to another such as going from air to glass. You can easily see this if you fill a glass with water and put a pencil in it with part of the pencil sticking out of the water . When you look at the pencil in the glass, it looks like the pencil is bent or broken. Different colors of light bend (refract) by a different amount. Thus when white light (which is made up of many different colors) is shone through a prism, each color is bent by a different amount so you get a pretty rainbow. If you shine monochromatic light, the ray of light will all be bent by the same amount so what you will see is a ray of light go into the prism, be bent by a certain amount, and you will see exactly that same color going in....come back out.

Answer 5

Light encountering a refractive plane, whether to a prism or not, is refracted. A prism will induce chromatic dispersion, where different wavelengths are refracted by different amounts, splitting the spectrum.

Refraction is a process relating to harmonic resonance whose effects we are very familiar with but which is still not well understood in either quantum or macroscopic terms.

Answer 6

It is separated into its component colors and forms what we call a rainbow.

In other words the light breaks up into seperate colors.

Answer 7

When light passes through an ordinary prism, the light will refract and once the light has been refracted you will see the colors of the rainbow

Answer 8

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