Friday 9 April 2021

More about the refraction from the bevelled mirror edge

 I posted last month about the prism effect from the bevelled edge of a mirror. This time I noticed that the spectrum cuts across the pattern of the reflected blind slats. In other words, the process of producing the spectrum is pulling the light through a bigger angle than the reflection is. I a suspecting that there is some refraction involved with reflection from the back of the mirror but will need to think further about a possible ray diagram.