What is dispersion of light?? explain.?
Dispersion. Visible light is actually made up of different colors. Each color bends by a different amount when refracted by glass. That's why visible light is split, or dispersed, into different colors when it passes through a lens or prism.
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What is dispersion of light?? explain.?
Splitting of white light to different colours is known as Dispersion of light..
What is dispersion of light?? explain.?
The phenomenon of splitting up of white light into its constituent colours on passing through a prism is called dispersion of light.
A prism is made up of a transparent medium bounded by two plane surfaces inclined at an angle.
it consists of two plane reflecting surfaces. when white light it is incident on one reflecting surface of the prism, the yellow light splits up into consistent colours - violet, Indigo, blue ,green ,yellow, orange and red.
the band of colours obtained is called spectrum of light. The spectrum of light(VIBGYOR) can be seen on a screen placed on the other side of the prism.
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