Re: What determines the width of light's refraction in a prism (each color's width)?


Sue... wrote:
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| guskz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > Sue... wrote:
| > > guskz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > > > What determines the width of light's refraction in a prism (each
| > > > color's width)?
| > > >
| > > >
| > > > I don't visually remember but I guess you'd have say one group
yellow,
| > > > red, green, blue beams then another group, etc..., correct?
| > > >
| > > > What determines how many of these groups and the width of each
| > > > individual beam?
| > > >
| > > > Also why are they in groups, say one beam of light why doesn't it
split
| > > > and it's yellow for example go into the light beam's red(therefore
it
| > > > would be impossible to view the refraction since each single beam
| > > > diverges into the other's beam)???
| > >
| > > The glass is really a liquid with colored speed-boats swimming
| > > in it. The propeller of a red boat slows the red light. The
| > > propeller of a blue boat speed ups the blue light.
| > > The green boats have paddle wheels so they just go
| > > with the flow.
| > >
| >
| > Yes, but:
| >
| > 1. What determines they're THICKNESS, meaning how thick is the red
| > beam.
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| There is no 'red beam'.

Tell that to my laser pointer.
Oddly enough, I just shone it through my binoculars
the wrong way and got a parallel beam nearly 2 inches wide.
Androcles.

It sounds like the glass in your 'peeps' might be exhibiting
a wave like interaction. See if there is a switch on the
side to activate the particle mode. :o)
http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/ekspong/index.html


I think I agree with Androcles, same as passing a light through a bunch
of slits, the interference pattern (distance between interference and
they're thickness) is based on the size of the slits and they're
distance apart...likewise permittivity and light does interfere with
the particles of the medium (same as slit(partilce) , no slit (no
partilce) and distance between slits (distance between particles in the
medium)???)

Sue...

















Spectral purity determines line width
| on a spectrometer...and all the lines are black and white or
| what ever color the instrument displays.
|
| > 2. How many seperate red beams, meaning how many red, green, blue, then
| > another red, green, blue then another red green blue ....(how many of
| > these groups of colors instead of just one red, green, blue which is
| > impossible since the prism maybe very wide)
|
| Zillions:
| How many angles are there between 0 and 90 degrees?
| http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/AtData/pt?optionslist=XXT1
|
| Sue...
|
| >
| > > << When light passes from one dielectric medium to another
| > > its velocity changes, but its frequency remains unchanged.>>
| > > http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/302l/lectures/node110.html
| > > http://www.yorku.ca/eye/spectru.htm
| > >
| > > Sue...
|

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