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What is meant by “dispersion of light”?


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Dispersion of light: When a white ray of light is passing through a glass prism and splits into its spectrum of colors, thus light splitting into different colors is called dispersion of light.

  1. The color of the spectrum is in order of violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.
  2. We can explain the phenomenon of dispersion through a simple example of the dispersion of a prism.

Example: Rainbow, Velocity dispersion in optical fiber.


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