A beam of light splits when it passes through a prism. Name this phenomenon and give it reason
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The splitting of white light when it passes through a glass prism into its constituent spectrum of colours is called dispersion (i.e. violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red). White light is a mix of all of the above colours and they each have a different frequency.
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