Dispersion is the phenomenon where white light splits into its constituent colours.
Splitting of light into its constituent colours is known as
Asked in Sub Inspector 2021 · Topic: Optics (Prisms and Dispersion)
More Physics questions
- A person standing in front of a mirror finds his image larger than himself. This implies that the mirror is
- Twinkling of stars in clear sky during nighttime can be explained with
- The speed of light will be minimum while passing through
- Large number of thin strips of black paint are made on the surface of a convex lens of focal length 20 cm to catch the image of a white horse. The image will be
- The image formed by concave mirror is real, inverted and of the same size as that of the object. The position of the object should be
- Which one of the following is not true about the image formed by a plane mirror?
- In a periscope, the two plane mirrors are kept
- If the speed of light in air is $3 \times 10^8$ m/s, then the speed of light in a medium of refractive index $\frac{3}{2}$ is