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    O Level Physics Notes (Dispersion of Light)

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    Light refracts more when passing from air to glass, with different wavelengths bending different amounts due to variations in speed through glass. This causes a white beam entering a glass prism to disperse into its individual colors from red to violet. While frequency remains the same, the refractive index of glass depends on the wavelength of incident light.

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    O Level Physics Notes (Dispersion of Light)

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    Light refracts more when passing from air to glass, with different wavelengths bending different amounts due to variations in speed through glass. This causes a white beam entering a glass prism to disperse into its individual colors from red to violet. While frequency remains the same, the refractive index of glass depends on the wavelength of incident light.

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    Light refracts more when passing from air to glass, with different wavelengths bending different amounts due to variations in speed through glass. This causes a white beam entering a glass prism to disperse into its individual colors from red to violet. While frequency remains the same, the refractive index of glass depends on the wavelength of incident light.

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    Light refracts more when passing from air to glass, with different wavelengths bending different amounts due to variations in speed through glass. This causes a white beam entering a glass prism to disperse into its individual colors from red to violet. While frequency remains the same, the refractive index of glass depends on the wavelength of incident light.

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    O Level Physics Notes: Dispersion of Light

    When light passes from air to glass it is refracted. The light changes direction - it
    bends or is refracted. Light is made up of a range of different wavelengths and the
    different wavelengths bend or are refracted by different amounts, because although
    light of all wavelengths in air travels with the same speed of light in glass
    travels with a speed that varies with the wavelength of the light.
    The white beam which enters the glass prism is separated into it's different colours it
    is dispersed.

    Red light bends the least and violet light bends the most.
    If the dispersed light passes through a suitably positioned second prism it may
    recombine into white light. Alternatively we may say that the refractive index of
    glass varies with the wavelength of the incident light.


    The frequency does not change for light as it passes from air to glass or vice versa,
    though of course it is different for each wavelength or colour of light.

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