Re: Is light bending a function of wavelength?

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:32:03 -0700

Dear Ken S. Tucker:

"Ken S. Tucker" <dynamics@vianet.on.ca> wrote in message
news:1103672624.099347.217750@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> May I ask Bilge, Randy and Tom and all, to step back a bit, and
> reconsider
> what Newton un-exprectedly found when he emplyed a prism to
> the suns rays.
>
> He found that a medium refracting those rays, was frequency dependant.
>
> Chromatic aberration is NOT dependant on intensity but only frequency,
> (please stop issuing Tom's intensity argument, it does not apply).
>
> The sum of the local density of blue with the ambient refractor, is
> greater
> than the same for red light, I think we should expect blue to bend
> more.

This behaviour is a function of the k value for specific wavelengths. A
medium could be constructed that could have a higher k value for blue than
red.

> I'm on thin ice, but I think I'll argue the prismatic.
>
> Blame Newton he decomposed light, into color.

No blame.

David A. Smith

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