Solve

Guides

0

You visited us 0 times! Enjoying our articles? Unlock Full Access!

Question

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.

Open in App

Solution

Verified by Toppr

When white light is passed through a glass prism it splits into its spectrum of colours (in order violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red) and this process of white light splitting into its constituent colours is termed as dispersion.
Because different color travel with different speed in prism they split while moving in prism.

Was this answer helpful?

15

Similar Questions

Q1

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.

View Solution

Q2

Describe an activity to show that the colour of white light splitted by a glass prism can be recombined to get white light by another identical glass prism. Also draw a ray diagram to show the recombination of the spectrum of white light.

View Solution

Q3

What is a spectrum? Why do we get a spectrum of seven colours when white light is dispersed by a prism?

View Solution

Q4

What is spectrum? How many colours are there in white light? Name the various colours of white light.
[3 marks]
[Lakhmir Singh]
[Dispersion of light]

View Solution

Q5

Label the colours of the spectrum after dispersion
of white light by a prism.

View Solution