11.1 Refraction of Light Through A Prism
11.1 Refraction of Light Through A Prism
11.1 Refraction of Light Through A Prism
Subject PHYSICS
Topic Chapter 11 The Human Eye the Colourful World
Sub-topic 1. Refraction of Light through a Prism
2. Dispersion of White Light by a Glass Prism
3. Practical - Tracing the path of the rays of light through a glass prism.
Read Pages 168 – 171 of text book
Video links Refraction of Light through a Prism and Dispersion
https://youtu.be/cQhO88edWxU
https://youtu.be/Wx0GIDvyMIY
Recombination of White Light
https://youtu.be/zx07PShjJmk
How are rainbows formed
https://youtu.be/lUjvmgDaKCs
Tracing the path of the rays of light through a glass prism.
http://amrita.olabs.edu.in/?sub=1&brch=6&sim=246&cnt=1
4. When a ray of light enters in a glass prism, it emerges out as band of seven colours.
This splitting of light into seven colours is known as dispersion and the band of
seven colours is known as spectrum.
5. Cause: all colours travel at same speed in vacuum but in any transparent medium
like glass or water, the rays of different colours travel with different speed. Due to
difference in their speeds, the rays of different colours bend through different
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angles with respect to incident ray as they pass through the prism. The rays of each
colour emerge out along the different path and thus become distinct.
Note:
1. In any transparent medium, the red travels the fastest and violet travels the slowest
in all the seven colours. Therefore, the red deviates the least and violet deviates the
most.
2. Any light that gives spectrum similar to sunlight is referred as white light.
3. The frequency of blue colour is greater than that of the red colour.
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(a) Green
(b) Red
(c) Violet
(d) Blue
Q2. 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 figure. In which of the following cases, after
dispersion, the sixth colour from the top corresponds to the colour of the sun?
The deviation angle d is measured for light rays of different frequency, including blue light
and red light. Which graph is correct?
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