Difference between dispersion and scattering of light
Differences between scattering of light and dispersion
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Dispersion and scattering have close relation.
Dispersion is the splitting light into its component colours as it enters from one medium to another as different colour have different wave length.
Eg:- Red light is least deviated as it has the longest wave length and violet light is most deviated as it has the shortest wave length.
Scattering of light is the spreading of light into various directions by colloid particals.
You can also term in the way that both scattering and spreading have same wave length.
In dispersion splitting of one light into many light occurs and in scattering one single light spreads into different direction.
The similarity between both of them as I said at the beginning is that both dispersion and scattering are inversely proportionate to wavelength of the light.
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Dispersion is the splitting light into its component colours as it enters from one medium to another as different colour have different wave length.
Eg:- Red light is least deviated as it has the longest wave length and violet light is most deviated as it has the shortest wave length.
Scattering of light is the spreading of light into various directions by colloid particals.
You can also term in the way that both scattering and spreading have same wave length.
In dispersion splitting of one light into many light occurs and in scattering one single light spreads into different direction.
The similarity between both of them as I said at the beginning is that both dispersion and scattering are inversely proportionate to wavelength of the light.
Hope you understood the concept.
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White light is primarily composed of light of different wavelengths (colors) viz. violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow and red with red having the highest wavelength while the violet having the lowest wavelength.
When light passes from one medium to any other medium say air, a glass of water then a part of the light is absorbed by particles of the medium preceded by its subsequent radiation in a particular direction. This phenomenon is termed as a scattering of light. The intensity of scattered light depends on the size of the particles and the wavelength of the light.
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