<h2>Summary of Dispersion: The Rainbow and Prisms</h2>
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<li>The spreading of white light into its full spectrum of wavelengths is called dispersion.</li>
<li>Rainbows are produced by a combination of refraction and reflection and involve the dispersion of sunlight into a continuous distribution of colors.</li>
<li>Dispersion produces beautiful rainbows but also causes problems in certain optical systems.</li>
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<h2>Glossary</h2>
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<h3>dispersion</h3>
<p>spreading of white light into its full spectrum of wavelengths</p>
<h3>rainbow</h3>
<p>dispersion of sunlight into a continuous distribution of colors according to wavelength, produced by the refraction and reflection of sunlight by water droplets in the sky</p>
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Summarizing Dispersion

Physics is a science discipline concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. Physics topics include mechanics, heat, light and radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, the structure of atoms, and so on.

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Explore the principles of light and its behavior, including reflection, refraction, total internal reflection and dispersion, leading to an understanding of image formation by lenses and mirrors in this tutorial.


Summarizing Dispersion

Summary of Dispersion: The Rainbow and Prisms

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