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Newtons prism experiments showed that white sunlight is made up of?
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Electromagnetic radiations which ranged in appearance from red to violet. He did not see beyond the visible spectrum - into the infra red and lower frequencies, nor ultra violet and higher frequencies.
It is understood that he initially defined the spectrum as consisting of 4 colours but later, to bring it in line with the musical scales, the spectrum was split into seven colours. The spectrum is, of course, a continuum, consisting not of 4 nor 7 but an infinite number of colours.
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What was sir isaac newtons experiment in 1665?
The Prism Experiment!
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a prism
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prism
What statement correctly identifies a sound wave?
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Is blue a color of the rainbow?
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That light was made up of the colors of the spectrum and that light could be bent.
When sunlight passes through a prism the different wavelengths separate into an of colors?
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When sunlight passes through a prism what colour dispersed light bends the least?
Red.
