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How many colours can you identify in the rainbow? Write their names.

Important Questions on Light

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What did Newton demonstrate by his experiments with the prism?
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What will happen if another similar glass prism is placed upside down behind the first prism?

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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.
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In the figure given alongside, a narrow beam of white light is shown to pass through a triangular glass prism. After passing through the prism, it produces a spectrum YX on the screen.
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Why do different colours of white light bend through different angles with respect to the incident beam of light?

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Mark the least deviated colour in your diagram.
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How many colours are there in a full spectrum of white light? Write the various colours of the spectrum in the order, starting with red.
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What information do we get about sunlight from the formation of a rainbow?
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The band of seven colours formed on a screen due to the dispersion of white light is called spectrum of white light.
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What is the order of colours in a rainbow, from the outside to the inside?
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What is meant by the dispersion of white light? Describe the formation of the rainbow in the sky with the help of a diagram.
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Why do different coloured rays deviate differently in a prism?
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What happens when a ray of ordinary light is passed through a triangular glass prism?
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Draw a diagram to show how white light can be dispersed into a spectrum by using a glass prism. Mark the various colours of the spectrum.
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What colours make up white light?
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Regarding propagation of light, the correct statement is :

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In the figure given alongside, a narrow beam of white light is shown to pass through a triangular glass prism. After passing through the prism, it produces a spectrum YX on the screen.
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State the colour seen (i) at X, and (ii) at Y.
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Fill in the blank with a suitable word:

By mixing blue and yellow colours, we get _____ (green/grey) colour.

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Prove that a rainbow is the combined effect of refraction, dispersion and total internal reflection of light.
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What is spectrum? What is the name of the glass shape used to produce a spectrum?
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What colours lie on the two sides of the ‘green colour’ in the spectrum of white light?