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प्रश्न
Sunlight entering through a narrow aperture falls on a prism. Draw a neat labelled ray diagram to show the formation of the spectrum on a screen. Name the colour obtained nearer the base of the prism.
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उत्तर
The labelled ray diagram showing the formation of the spectrum of sunlight on a screen is given below. The colour obtained nearer the base of the prism is violet.


संबंधित प्रश्न
Study the following figure in which a student has marked the angle of incidence (∠i), angle of refraction (∠r), angle of emergence (∠e), angle of prism (∠A) and the angle of deviation (∠D). The correctly marked angles are

(a) ∠A and ∠i
(b) ∠A, ∠i and ∠r
(c) ∠A, ∠i, ∠e and ∠D
(d) ∠A, ∠i, ∠r and ∠D
What will happen if another similar glass prism is placed upside down behind the first prism?
What do you understand by the term spectrum?
In the following diagram, the correctly marked angles are
(A) All
(B) Only ∠i and ∠A
(C) ∠i, ∠r and ∠A
(D) ∠i, ∠A and ∠D
State two uses of ultraviolet radiation.
In the figure, a beam of light consisting of three colours blue, red, and yellow is incident on a prism and on a rectangular glass block respectively. Complete the diagram by drawings of the refracted and emergent rays.

What is Newton’s disc?
Curved mirrors have surfaces that are spherical, cylindrical, parabolic, and ellipsoid.
State the colour which bends:
- The most.
- The least while passing through a glass prism.
Observe the given diagram and answer the questions:

- Name the process shown in the figure.
- Name the colour that deviates the most.
- Name the colour that deviates the least.
- Name any one phenomenon in nature which is based on the above process.
- Define ‘spectrum’.
