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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
Study the following diagrams in which the path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism as traced by four students P, Q, R and S is shown:

The student who has traced the path correctly is
(A) P
(B) Q
(C) R
(D) S
A student is observing a diagram showing the path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism. He would find that for all angles of incidence the ray of light bends:
When a beam of white light is passed through a prism, it splits to form lights of seven colours. Is it possible to recombine the lights of seven colours to obtain the white light again? Explain your answer.
Which is refracted most by a prism : red light or violet light? Explain why?
The colour of white light which suffers the maximum bending (or maximum refraction) on passing through a glass prism is:
(a) yellow
(b) orange
(c) red
(d) violet
Explain the cause of dispersion of white light through a prism.
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 ?
Suggest one way, in each case, by which we can detect the presence of Infrared radiations.
Which one of the following is involved for the formation of rainbow in the sky?
A prism of refractive index `sqrt2` and refracting angle A produces minimum deviation δm of a ray on one face at an angle of incidence 45°, The values of A and δm are, respectively ______.
