White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

We can separate white light into all its different colours using a glass prism. The prism bends different colours of light at different angles. This is called refraction. This can happen in ...

People in optics are a bit sloppy when it comes to the definition of a prism. While many of them ... in dispersive prisms that split a beam of white light into its spectrum of colors, although ...

Newton was also the first to understand the rainbow, and to refract white light with a prism into its component colours and back again into white light, establishing rigid experimental proof in ...