Question

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

Answer 1

dispersion of light mean dispersed and scattered the light is known as dispersion of light.

Answer 2

Answer:

• When a small white light beam passes through a triangular glass prism, it divides into a seven-colored band.
• The seven colours are in the order Violet, Blue, Indigo, Green, Orange, yellow and Red.
• The phenomenon of “splitting of white light” into its colour components on passing through the “refracting medium” is called “Dispersion of light”.
• The pattern of the colored bands acquired on the screen called spectrum.  

The spectrum formation is attached below in the attachment: