Prism – a triangular piece of thick glass

R – Red
O – Orange
Y – Yellow
G – Green
B – Blue
I – Indigo
V – Violet

Rainbow – is formed by the dispersion of sunlight

When sunlight passes through each spherical raindrop, it is refracted and dispersed and then
internally reflected one or more times before it finally emerges out of the raindrop, when it is again
refracted and dispersed some more.
Retina
1. Rods – enable you to see in black and white in dim light
2. Cones – provide you with color vision in bright light
Diffraction – light waves are capable of bending around obstacles
– is a demonstration of Huygens’ principle which states that every point source may be
regarded as a new point source of secondary waves.