Dispersion of Light through a Prism

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This Demonstration shows the dispersion of white light through a prism as the incidence angle is varied.When a light ray passes from one medium to another at an angle it refracts (or bends). The refraction of light at the interface is governed by Snells law. White light is a combination of different colors in the visible spectrum and different colors have different indexes of refraction. Thus ;