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प्रश्न
When sunlight passes through water droplets in the atmosphere it gets dispersed into its constituent colours forming a rainbow. A similar phenomenon is observed when white light passes through a prism.
Instead of sunlight, a green-coloured ray is passed through a glass prism. What will be the colour of the emergent ray?
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उत्तर
The colour of the emergent ray will be green. A prism does not change the colour of light. It simply disperses white light into its constituent colours.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The path of a ray of light passing through a glass prism is shown below:

In this diagram, the angle of prism, angle of incidence, angle of emergence and angle of deviation, respectively, have been represented by:
(A) O, Y, Z and N,
(B) P, Y, M and Z,
(C) O, X, M and Z,
(D) P, X, Z and N.
Define the term dispersion of white light.
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
The speed of light in air or vacuum is
State the speed of light in (a) air, (b) water, and (c) glass
A wave has wavelength 50Å of State its one use.
The sunlight can be split into its constituent colors using ______.
State the correct sequence (1-7) of colours in the spectrum formed by the prisms A and B, shown in the following figure.

Which one of the following is involved for the formation of rainbow in the sky?
