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What does the dispersion of light tell us about the speeds of various colors of light in a material?
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Dispersion of light is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency, or alternatively when the group velocity depends on the frequency. This is often observed in physical phenomena such as waves in water and sound waves in air. In Show more…
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