Recent content by George Lisowski

Hi Greg, Thanks for welcoming me. I'm a translator (Polish-English), and I occasionally work on texts with some physics content. I had a problem with a physics concept, so I decided to consult this forum, and very quickly received relevant answers. Many thanks!

Thanks, Borek - but the problem here is that they've translated 'rozszczepienie światła' as 'dispersion of light', which isn't exactly right according to further reading that I've done (although I'm not a physicist). According to wikipedia 'dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase...

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…… is the splitting of light into its constituent colors (wavelengths). Can I use the term ‘dispersion’ here? Or is ‘dispersion’ only restricted to splitting due to phase velocity/refraction differences of different wavelengths (prism)? If not ‘dispersion’, is there another general term that...