Roy G.

Biv
or
Vib G. Yor

By: Andrew Besenski 8.3

 Question
Can the color of the light that comes out of a
light prism be rearranged from ROY G. BIV to
VIN G. YOR?
 Hypothesis
• I think that if I can change the wave lengths of
the different colors I think that then they will
maybe rearrange themselves.
 Procedure
• What I did was I used a light prism to spread
the colors of into the rainbow. I then took a
piece of paper and cut holes in where the
different colors were. I then put the paper in
front of another prism which I thought would
have rearranged the colors because the colors
wave lengths have changed.
 Light Prism Info
• In optics, a prism is a transparent optical
element with flat, polished surfaces that
refract light. The exact angles between the
surfaces depend on the application.
 How Prisms are used.
• A prism can be used to break light into the
colors of the rainbow. Prisms can also be used
to reflect light, or to split light into
components with different polarizations.
 Types of Prisms
• There are four different types of prisms:
• Triangular Prism
• Abbe Prism
• Pellin-Broca prism
• Amici prism
 Triangular
• In geometry, a triangular prism or three-
sided prism is a type of prism; it is a
polyhedron made of a triangular base, a
translated copy, and 3 faces joining
corresponding sides.
 Abbe
• In optics, named for its inventor, the German
physicist Ernest Abbe, is a type of constant
deviation dispersing prism to a Pellin-Broca
prism.
 Pellin-Broca
• The prism is named for its inventors, the
French instrument maker Ph. Pellin and
professor of physiological optics André Broca.
The prism consists of a four-sided block of
glass shaped as a right prism with 90˚, 75˚,
135˚, and 60˚ angles on the end faces.
 Amici
• An Amici prism, named for the astronomer
Giovanni Amici, is a type of compound
dispersive prism, which is used as a
spectrometer.
• The Amici prism consists of two triangular
prisms in contact, with the first typically being
made from a medium-dispersion crown glass,
and the second a higher-dispersion flint glass.
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