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प्रश्न
A glass prism is able to produce the spectrum when white light passes through it, but a glass slab doesn’t produce any spectrum. Explain why it is so.
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उत्तर
The two faces of a glass prism are at an angle (angle of prism) with each other. Therefore, the angle of incidence and the angle of emergence of a light ray become different in the case of a prism. Therefore, when white light gets dispersed after entering a prism, its component colours spread more after refracting through the opposite face of the prism.
In the case of a glass slab, the two opposite faces of the slab are parallel to each other. Therefore, the angle of incidence and the angle of emergence of a light ray remain the same for a glass slab. Therefore, the dispersed light rays combine to form white light after refracting through the second face of the glass slab.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
After tracing the path of a ray of light through a glass prism a student marked the angle of incidence (∠i), angle of refraction (∠r) angle of emergence (∠e) and the angle of deviation (∠D) as shown in the diagram. The correctly marked angles are :

(A) ∠i and ∠r
(B) ∠i and ∠e
(C) ∠i, ∠e and ∠D
(D) ∠i, ∠r and ∠e
Study the following ray diagram:

In this diagram, the angle of incidence, the angle of emergence and the angle of deviation respectively have been represented by
(A) y, p, z
(B) x, q, z
(C) p, y, z
(D) p, z, y
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