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Question
Observe the given diagram and answer the questions:
- Name the process shown in the figure.
- Name the colour that deviates the most.
- Name the colour that deviates the least.
- Name any one phenomenon in nature which is based on the above process.
- Define ‘spectrum’.
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Solution
- The process shown in the figure is the dispersion of light.
- The colour that deviates the most is violet.
- The colour that deviates the least is red.
- One phenomenon in nature based on the above process is the formation of a rainbow.
- A spectrum is a band of colours, as seen in a rainbow, produced by the separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction according to wavelength.
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