Timeline for I would like to know if violet bends the least or red [closed]
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 19:21 | history | closed |
Carl Witthoft Sebastian Riese John Duffield ACuriousMind♦ user36790 |
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 7:20 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 13:50 | comment | added | Peter Diehr | Natural materials exhibit negative dispersion only near strong absorption bands, and you thus "see" nothing in the optical range - and the OP was discussing visible light, red through violet. Very recently materials have been designed and fabricated which have negative index of refraction; of course these will give the opposite result, but a comment is not a dissertation, and I did consider mentioning all of this - and would have if I had posted an actual answer. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 12:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @PeterDiehr that's inaccurate and misleading. There are plenty of negative dispersion materials out there. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 11:20 | comment | added | Peter Diehr | "Blue bends best" by refraction, such as a prism. If you follow the "marching soldiers" into the mud model you quickly see that shorter steps lead to a sharper bend, while longer steps lead to shallower bends; blue is shorter than red when it comes to wavelengths. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 10:08 | comment | added | Faiz Iqbal | @lemon and it depends on ? | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 10:02 | comment | added | lemon | It depends. Through a prism, say, red bends the least. But through a diffraction grating it bends the most. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 9:57 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 23, 2016 at 9:54 | history | asked | Anagha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |