Difference between revisions of "Prism (Physics)"

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A glass prism with a ray of white light being split into the colours of the spectrum.

A prism is a transparent solid block with a triangular base.

Prisms show how white light is made of many different colours.

The different colours all refract by a different amount, causing them to split.

When white light enters a prism it is split into a spectrum of 7 colours:


A diagram of a prism showing how white light is made of the 7 colours of the spectrum.

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-| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A diagram of a [[prism]] showing how white [[light]] is made of the 7 colours of the spectrum.
+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |A [[diagram]] of a '''prism''' showing how [[White Light|white light]] is made of the 7 [[colour]]s of the [[spectrum]].
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