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What causes a ray of white light to split into seven colors when passed through a prism? A. refraction B. reflection C. filterin

g D. absorption

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katrin2010 [14]3 years ago

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<em>Refraction</em> causes the ray of white light to be split into seven different colors.

Answer: <em>A. Refraction</em>

Svetradugi [14.3K]3 years ago

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Refraction causes the light to bend. Each wavelength bends by a slightly different amount.

The light doesn't "split into 7 colors". It smears, into all of the thousands of colors that eyes can detect, plus some that they can't.

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Total internal reflection is a phenomenon that occurs when all the light passing from a region of higher index of refraction to a region of lower index is reflected back into the region of higher index.

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$n_1 sin \theta_1 = n_2 sin \theta_2$

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n2 is the refractive index of the second medium

$\theta_1$ is the angle of incidence (in the first medium)

$\theta_2$ is the angle of refraction (in the second medium)

Let's now consider a situation in which

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$sin \theta_2 = \frac{n_1}{n_2}sin \theta_1$

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$sin \theta_2 > 1$

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Maximum altitude to see(L)

Computation:

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D / L = 1.22(λ / d)

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0.054 / L = 1.22 [0.03 × 10⁻⁶]

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