What is dispersion of white light? What is the cause of this dispersion? 

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Cause of Dispersion: When white light passes through a glass prism, its constituent colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) travel with different speeds in the prism because refractive index is color dependent. This causes the dispersion of light.

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