How is White Light separated into the colors of the Spectrum?
The separation of White Light is very simple, but unique. What happens is when White Light hits something like a prism, it bends or Refracts so it bends the light. Just like in the spectoscope experiment. We had made the light bend and break apart using the spectoscope and also the prism. Colors with shorter wavelengths will bend more, so Violet will bend the most. Just like in a rainbow. The only reason light can bend is because of Optical Density through a certain object. When Light goes through something like Air and then for example, a piece of glass(prism), the Optical Density of the prism is much greater than the air's, which cause the light to bend. Just like in this scenario, we completely had recreated this in class with the prism. We had light coming into the prism through air and into the prism, which were bend into the colors of the spectrum. This process of light separation is called Dispersion and which is the short answer to my question.