Examples of situational factors are your environment, work and school, and the people around you. The opposite is dispositional factors that are are individual characteristics that influence behavior and actions in a person like personality traits, temperament, and genetics.
The optical spectrometer is an instrument used to analyze the properties of light over a specific period of time, over a specific part of EMS.
The independent variables usually the wavelength of light. A spectrograph is usually a multi-channel detector of light.
A continuous spectrum usually measures the values of the condition of some physical quantities. Such as energy or wavelengths, a continuous system often may be considered as a discrete spectrum.