Abhishek Chandra Solutions for Chapter: Human Eye and the Colorful World, Exercise 2: EXERCISE
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Questions from Abhishek Chandra Solutions for Chapter: Human Eye and the Colorful World, Exercise 2: EXERCISE with Hints & Solutions
The sky appears black or dark instead of blue to an astronaut. Explain.
Explain why sun appears red during sunrise and sunset.
Explain the following effect:
The colour of sky on a clear day appears dark to an astronaut
Explain the following effect:
The sun appears red during sunset and sunrise.
The colour of the sun looks different at different times of the day. Explain why. Draw a labelled diagram to support your answer.
Certain particles scatter more of some colours of light. Describe an experiment to show the same.
Draw a labelled diagram to show the experimental set-up for observing scattering of light in a colloidal sulphur solution. Describe what you see and why.
Match the items in Column I to those in Column II
| Column I | Column II |
| (a) Dispersion | (p) caused due to atmospheric refraction by different layers of air of varying refractive indices |
| (b) Angle of deviation | (q) the phenomenon causing advance sunrise and delayed sunset |
| (c) Atmospheric refraction | (r) refraction of light occurring in atmosphere |
| (d) Scattering of light | (s) angle between the emergent ray and the normal in a prism |
| (e) Twinkling of stars | (t) makes clear sky blue in colour |
| (u) makes sunrise and sunset reddish | |
| (v) none |
