Order the colors of the rainbow starting with the color that is bent the least to the color that is bent the most (when it passes through a prism).

Question 1 options:

yellow

blue

indigo

orange

green

red

violet

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

indigo

violet

Explanation:

The decomposition of light into colors by a prism has to do with the fact that white visible light is made up of a range of wavelengths (from 400nm to approximately 700nm) and within this range of wavelengths we find the colors we know from the rainbow (violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red) violet at 400nm to red at 700nm.

In a prism, each wavelength travels at a slightly different speed, resulting in the decomposition of white light into the colors of the rainbow.

Colors with smaller wavelengths will travel slower in the prism than colors with larger wavelengths. So colors with larger wavelengths will not deviate as much as colors with shorter wavelengths.

Thus, the order starting with the color that is bent the least is:

red orange yellow green blue indigo violet

This is because red travels faster in the prism than violet, thus it does not bend as much.