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प्रश्न
Make a rainbow
Try to make your own rainbow. You can try this project in the morning or in the evening. Stand with your back towards the Sun. Take a hosepipe or a water pipe used in the garden. Make a fine spray in front of you. You can see different colours of rainbow in the spray.
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उत्तर
Make a Rainbow
Materials:
- Hosepipe or garden water pipe
- A sunny day (morning or evening is ideal)
Procedure:
- Stand with your back towards the Sun.
- Hold the hosepipe or garden water pipe in front of you.
- Turn on the water and create a fine spray by partially covering the nozzle with your thumb.
Observation:
- You will see different colours of the rainbow forming in the spray of water.
Explanation:
- When sunlight passes through the water droplets in the spray, it gets refracted, reflected, and dispersed.
- This process splits the sunlight into its constituent colours, forming a spectrum that appears as a rainbow.
Conclusion:
- By using a hosepipe to create a fine spray of water with the Sun behind you, you can observe the formation of a rainbow. This demonstrates the principles of refraction, reflection, and dispersion of light.
संबंधित प्रश्न
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
In the figure given alongside, a narrow beam of white light is shown to pass through a triangular glass prism. After passing through the prism, it produces a spectrum YX on the screen.
State the colour seen (i) at X, and (ii) at Y.
Describe how you could demonstrate that white light is composed of a number of colours.
- A beam of monochromatic light undergoes minimum deviation through an equiangular prism, how does the beam pass through the prism, with respect to its base?
- If white light is used in the same way as in part (a) above, what change do you expect in the emergent beam?
- What conclusion do you draw about the nature of white light in part (b)?
If a monochromatic beam of light undergoes minimum deviation through an equiangular prism, how does the beam pass through the prism, with respect to its base?
If white light is used in same way what change is expected in the emergent beam?
Make the correct choice for each of the following:
Which one of the following Fig correctly shows the path of the ray through the glass block?
Distinguish between an impure spectrum and a pure spectrum.
Write the range of wavelength of the visible spectrum.
Assertion: We can see the rainbow in the sky when the rain starts falling after a spell of bright sunlight.
Reason: The rainbow is formed due to the dispersion of light.
