Re: More on Speed of Light

Slavek Krepelka ( slavek.krepelka@sympatico.ca )
Tue, 05 Oct 1999 12:09:15 -0400

Hello Ken

Carrigan, Ken wrote:

Shining sunlight on a prism will not 'slowdown' an EM wave but

> will act as a filter to separate the different frequencies of
> 'broadband light' into their separate spectrums. This is similar
> to a spectrum analyzer, where you can see the separate frequencies
> which make up a time domain EM waveform.

Refraction index is directly tied to the speed differences in the
mediums, i.e.air and glas.

Regards Slavek.

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