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Discovering Color With a Prism
Students explored what happened to light as it passed through a prism. They experimented with white light from a flashlight. They discovered that white light is composed of a continuous band of colors. The band of colors appears in the same pattern as the colors of a rainbow. Students learned that prisms separate visible light into its component colors (ROY G BIV) -- (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, & Violet).
White Light Dispersion
This lab experiment also helped students understand the meaning of refraction.
Refraction is the bending of light as it passes from one substance to another.
The Prism Produces Rainbow Colors
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