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प्रश्न
Define the term dispersion of white light.
What is a dispersion of white light?
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उत्तर
The splitting of a beam of white light into its seven constituent colors, when it passes through a glass prism, is called the dispersion of light.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Describe an activity to show that colours of white light splitted by a glass prism can be recombined to get white light by another identical glass prism. Also draw ray diagram to show the recombination of the spectrum of white light.
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
What is a rainbow? What are the two conditions necessary for the formation of a rainbow in the sky?
The colour of white light which is deviated the maximum on passing through the glass prism is:
(a) blue
(b) indigo
(c) red
(d) orange
Refer to fig
(i) Name the lens L.
(ii) What are the points O, O' called?
(iii) Complete the diagram to form the image of the object AB.
(iv) Write three characteristics of the image.

If white light is used in same way what change is expected in the emergent beam?
What do you understand by spectrum? Name the seven prominent colours in order, as obtained in the spectrum of white light.
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.

The phenomena of light involved in the formation of rainbow are ______.
______ colour is deviated the least in the spectrum of white light obtained with a glass prism.
