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    Physical Science - Week 13

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    Newton and Descartes separately conducted experiments using prisms to study the emergence of light and colors. Descartes explained that light particles of different rotational speeds would change speed differently when passing through a prism, causing the separation of colors. Newton observed that red light refracted the least while violet refracted the most when passing through a prism, due to differences in the mass of the color particles, with higher mass particles refracting less. Both contributed significantly to the early understanding of the nature and properties of light.

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    Newton and Descartes separately conducted experiments using prisms to study the emergence of light and colors. Descartes explained that light particles of different rotational speeds would change speed differently when passing through a prism, causing the separation of colors. Newton observed that red light refracted the least while violet refracted the most when passing through a prism, due to differences in the mass of the color particles, with higher mass particles refracting less. Both contributed significantly to the early understanding of the nature and properties of light.

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    Newton and Descartes separately conducted experiments using prisms to study the emergence of light and colors. Descartes explained that light particles of different rotational speeds would change speed differently when passing through a prism, causing the separation of colors. Newton observed that red light refracted the least while violet refracted the most when passing through a prism, due to differences in the mass of the color particles, with higher mass particles refracting less. Both contributed significantly to the early understanding of the nature and properties of light.

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    Physical Science - Week 13

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    Newton and Descartes separately conducted experiments using prisms to study the emergence of light and colors. Descartes explained that light particles of different rotational speeds would change speed differently when passing through a prism, causing the separation of colors. Newton observed that red light refracted the least while violet refracted the most when passing through a prism, due to differences in the mass of the color particles, with higher mass particles refracting less. Both contributed significantly to the early understanding of the nature and properties of light.

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    The Emergence and

    Properties of Light
    The Emergence of Light:
    Newton and Descartes

    Separately, they conducted experiments using a


    prism to explain the emergence of the colors of
    light upon passing it.
    Rene Descartes’s View on the Emergence of
    Colors of Light

    Rene Descartes was a French philosopher,


    mathematician, and scientist who first studied
    and explained the concept of refraction.

    In one of his experiments, he produced a


    rainbow by using a water-filled glass sphere
    and sunlight.
    Rene Descartes’s View on the
    Emergence of Colors of Light

    • Plenum - invisible substance that permeated the


    universe. He pictured the particles of plenum as
    tiny balls which were in contact, and rotating with
    the same speed.
    • He explained that when these particles passed
    through the prism and encountered a slit on the
    edge, their rotational speed would change.
    Sir Isaac Newton’s View on the
    Emergence of Colors of Light

    His studies included the emergence of


    colors as light passed through a
    prism.
    In his experiment, he saw that the
    red light refracted the least while
    the violet light refracted the most.
    This difference in refraction occurred
    due to the differences in the mass of
    the colors of light.
    Sir Isaac Newton’s View on the
    Emergence of Colors of Light

    • Newton believed that particles of matter exert equal


    force to the particles of light regardless of its color.
    • He then explained that when light particles passed
    through an interface of matter, the colors of light
    which have different mass and inertia will be
    deflected at varying degrees. He noted that particles
    with greater mass and inertia are deflected less
    when acted upon by the same force.
    When a light wave strikes an object, it can
    be absorbed, reflected, or refracted by
    the object.
    Types of Reflection

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