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प्रश्न
What do you understand by the term spectrum?
Explain the term spectrum.
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उत्तर
The colour band obtained on a screen on passing white light through a prism is called the spectrum. It consists of seven constituent colours in the order of VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red).
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संबंधित प्रश्न
A student traces the path of a ray of light through a triangular glass prism for different values of angle of incidence. On analyzing the ray diagrams, which one of the following conclusions is he likely to draw?
(A) The emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray.
(B) The emergent ray bends at an angle to the direction of the incident ray.
(C) The emergent ray and the refracted ray are at right angles to each other.
(D) The emergent ray is perpendicular to the incident ray.
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.
What is spectrum?
In figure AO is the ray of white light falling on a prism PQR. Complete the diagram till the light emerges out from the prism and falls on the screen.
Explain briefly, with the help of a neat labelled diagram, how white light gets dispersed by a prism. On which surface of a prism, there is both dispersion and deviation of light, and on which surface of the prism, there is only deviation of light ?
In which of the following four diagrams is the correct path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism shown ?
While performing the experiment to trace the path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism, four students marked the incident ray and the emergent ray in their diagrams in the manner shown below. 
(A) I
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
The phenomenon of splitting of light into its component colours is ___________ .
Which characteristic property of light is responsible for the blue colour of the sky?
The dispersive powers of flint glass and crown glass are 0.053 and 0.034, respectively and their mean refractive indices are 1.68 and 1.53 for white light. Calculate the angle of the flint glass prism required to form an achromatic combination with a crown glass prism of refracting angle 4°:
