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प्रश्न
What do you understand by 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.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Make two diagrams to explain refraction and dispersion.
Out of air and glass, which is optically rarer? Give reason.
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 ?
Which characteristic property of light is responsible for the blue colour of the sky?
Write the range of wavelength of the visible spectrum.
Match the Columns:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ |
| The wavelength of red light | (a) 600 nm |
| (b) 700 nm | |
| (c) 500 nm |
When white light enters a glass prism from the air, the angle of deviation is least for ____________.
Why do we see a rainbow in the sky only after rainfall?
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°:
A ray of light is incident at 45° on an equilateral prism in the diagram below.

- Name the phenomenon exhibited by the ray of light when it enters and emerges out of the prism.
- State the cause of the above phenomenon mentioned by you.
