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When a beam of white light falls on a glass prism, the colour of light which will deviate least is:
Violet
Orange
Green
Blue
The star appear shifted from their actual position due to the phenomenon of:
Diffraction of light
Scattering of light
Refraction of light
Reflection of light
Blue colour of the sky is due to the phenomenon of:
Reflection of light
Refraction of light
Dispersion of light
Scattering of light
The __ colour is at the top and ____ colour is at the bottom of spectrum.
Red, Violet
Red, Blue
Violet, red
None
The angle at which the ray gets deviated is called :
Angle of deviation
Angle of dispersion
Angle emergence
refracted angle
A transparent refracting material which is bounded by two plane refracting surfaces is :
Prism
Convex lens
Glass slab
None
The splitting of white light into different colours on passing through a prism is called
reflection
refraction
dispersion
deviation
Twinkling of stars is due to
reflection of light by clouds
scattering of light by dust particles
dispersion of light by water drops
atmospheric refraction of starlight
Which of the following is a natural phenomenon which is caused by the dispersion of sunlight in the sky?
Twinkling of stars
Stars seem higher than they actually are
Advanced sunrise and delayed sunset
Rainbow
The air layer of atmosphere whose temperature is less then the hot layer behave as optically
denser medium
rarer medium
inactive medium
either denser or rarer medium
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