Embibe Experts Solutions for Chapter: The Human Eye and The Colourful World, Exercise 1: Exercise

A prism $ABC$ (with $BC$ as base) is placed in different orientations. A narrow beam of white light is incident on the prism as shown in figures. In which of the following cases, after dispersion, the third colour from the top corresponds to the colour of the sky?

What acts as tiny prisms in the formation of a rainbow?

(Raindrops/Dust particles)

Deviation in the path of a ray of light can be produced by a glass prism as well as a rectangular glass slab.

Light rays are deviated by a prism as given below:

The deviation angle $\mathrm{d}$ is measured for light rays of different frequency including blue light and red light. Which graph is correct?

Explain the reason of advance sunrise and delayed sunset.

Unscramble the term related to light: MSPCTERU

The splitting up of white light into seven colours on passing through a glass prism is called:

Rainbow is formed because of scattering of all the seven colours of light.