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The following data are given for a crown glass prism, refractive index for violet light $n_{v} = 1.521$ , refractive index for red light $n_{r} = 1.510$ and refractive index for yellow light $n_{y} = 1.550$ . Dispersive power of a prism is

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Which is the following colourful patterns is due to diffraction of light?

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Which of the following colour suffers maximum deviation in a prism?

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The separation of a beam of light into its constituent wavelengths is called

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Monochromatic light is incident on a glass prism of angle A. If the refractive index of the material of the prism is

μ

, a ray, incident at an angle

θ

, on the face AB would get transmitted through the face AC of the prism provided:

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A ray is incident at an angle of incidence

i

on one surface of a small angle prism (with angle of prism

A

) and emerges normally from the opposite surface. If the refractive index of the material of the prism is

μ

, then the angle of incidence is nearly equal to:

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If the refracting angle of a prism is

60 °

and minimum deviation is

30 °

, then the angle of incidence will be

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In the given figure, what is the angle of prism?

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What is the required condition, if the light incident on one face of a prism, does not emerge from the other face?

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The focal length of a thin convex lens for red and blue rays are

100 cm

and

96.8 cm

respectively. Then, the dispersive power of the material of the lens is

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In which colour have maximum dispersion

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The angle of incidence for a ray of light at a refracting surface of a prism is

45^{o}

. The angle of prism is

60^{o}

. If the ray suffers minimum deviation through the prism, the angle of minimum deviation and refractive index of the material of the prism respectively, are:

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The angle of a prism is

60^{o}

. When light is incident at an angle of

60^{o}

on the prism, the angle of emergence is

40^{o}

. The angle of incidence

i

for which the light ray will deviate the least is such that

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A parallel beam of light is incident from air at an angle

α

on the side PQ of a right angled triangular prism of refractive index

n = \sqrt{2}

. Light undergoes total internal reflection in the prism at the face PR when

α

has a minimum value of

45^{o} .

The angle

θ

of the prism is:

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Dispersion without deviation is produced by two thin (small angled) prisms which are combined together. One prism has angle

5 °

and refractive index

1.56 .

If the other prism has refractive index

1.7,

what is its angle?

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The graph between angle of deviation

(δ)

and angle of incidence

(i)

for a triangular prism is represented by :

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A ray of light is incident at an angle of

60^{\circ}

on one face of a prism of angle

30^{\circ}

. The emergent ray of light makes an angle of

30^{\circ}

with incident ray. The angle made by the emergent ray with second face of prism will be:

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The refracting angle of a prism is

A

, and refractive index of the material of the prism is

\cot (\frac{A}{2})

. The angle of minimum deviation is

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A thin prism

P_{1}

with angle

4 °

and made from glass of refractive index

1.54

is combined with another thin prism

P_{2}

made from glass of refractive index

1.72

to produce dispersion without deviation. The angle of prism for

P_{2}

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A thin prism having refracting angle

10^{o}

is made of glass of refractive index 1.42. This prism is combined with another thin prism made of glass of refractive index 1.7. This combination produces dispersion without deviation. The refracting angle of second prism should be

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It was found that the refractive index of material of a certain prism varied as

1.5 + \frac{0.004}{λ^{2}},

where

λ

is the wavelength of light used to measure the refractive index. The same material was then used to construct a thin prism of apex angle

10 °

. Angles of minimum deviation

(δ_{m})

of the prism were recorded for the sources with wavelengths

λ_{1}

and

λ_{2}

respectively. Then

The following data are given for a crown glass prism, refractive index for violet light nv=1.521, refractive index for red light nr=1.510 and refractive index for yellow light ny=1.550. Dispersive power of a prism is

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The following data are given for a crown glass prism, refractive index for violet light $n_{v} = 1.521$ , refractive index for red light $n_{r} = 1.510$ and refractive index for yellow light $n_{y} = 1.550$ . Dispersive power of a prism is