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What is the bending of light as it passes the edges of a barrier called?
What is the bending of light as it passes the edges of a barrier called?
Diffraction
Huygen's wavelets combine to form a straight wavefront, except at the edges of the wave, where the wavelets spread in a circular manner when a barrier creates an edge.
Huygen's wavelets combine to form a straight wavefront, except at the edges of the wave, where the wavelets spread in a circular manner when a barrier creates an edge.
True
What happens when a narrow beam of sunlight or white light passes through a glass prism?
What happens when a narrow beam of sunlight or white light passes through a glass prism?
The light splits into different colors.
When white light crosses the boundary between air and glass and back into air, what causes each different color of light to be bent, or refracted, at a different angle?
When white light crosses the boundary between air and glass and back into air, what causes each different color of light to be bent, or refracted, at a different angle?
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What causes the white light to be spread into a spectrum?
What causes the white light to be spread into a spectrum?
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Light has wave properties, and each color of light has its own unique wavelength.
Light has wave properties, and each color of light has its own unique wavelength.
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What is the range of wavelengths that visible light falls within?
What is the range of wavelengths that visible light falls within?
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Study Notes
Light Diffraction and Dispersion
- Diffraction is the bending of light as it passes the edges of a barrier.
- Huygen's wavelets combine to form a wavefront, spreading out in a circular path when encountering a barrier.
- A prism separates white light into different colors as varying wavelengths of light refract at different angles as they pass through a prism.
- White light's wave nature causes different colors to refract at different angles when passing from air to glass and back to air.
- The unequal bending of different colors creates a spectrum.
- Light exhibits wave properties and each color of light has a specific wavelength.
- The wavelength range of visible light is approximately 400 nm to 700 nm.
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Explore the concepts of light diffraction and dispersion in this quiz. Understand how light interacts with barriers and prisms, leading to phenomena such as bending and the formation of spectra. Test your knowledge of wavelengths and the behavior of white light as it separates into colors.
