With a single prism, as we all know, white light is broken into all of the colors in a rainbow.
What happens if you put another prism in series with the first? Does it recombine all the colors back into white light, or does it further refract the rainbow colored light?
I’d test this if I had two prisms but I don’t. Hoping someone has either done this simple experiment, or knows enough about optics to know the answer. 10pts to the winner… :-)
2006-11-10 16:08:04 · 4 answers · asked by taotemu 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It depends on the orientation of the second prism.
Either can occur.
2006-11-10 16:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by warmspirited 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the ones entering the second prism are already dispersed....
the dispersion because of the prisms is like 1+1=2...
try it on paper, draw it, use ray tracing geometric optics....
be careful of the varying indexes of refraction and to where the rays get deflected when passign a medium with big or small index of refraction with respect to its original medium....
you'll get it...
2006-11-11 07:20:14 · answer #2 · answered by dumb-sel in distress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you put another prism beside the first one it will recombine all te spectrum colors back to white light.
2006-11-11 00:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by quark_sa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it further refracts, my physics professor is made about light and rainbows; double and triple. they light keeps bouncing back off in every which direction.
2006-11-11 00:20:31 · answer #4 · answered by Gina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋