Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
What do you mean by the term dispersion?
Solution
The splitting or breaking up of the white light into its constituent colours as it passes through a refracting medium such as prism is known as dispersion
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
When a spherical mirror is held towards the sun and its sharp image is formed on a piece of a carbon paper for some time, a hole is burnt in the carbon paper.
What name is given to the distance between spherical mirror and carbon paper?
How is the focal length of a spherical mirror related to its radius
Write the spherical mirror's formula and explain the meaning of each symbol used in it.
For an incident ray directed towards centre of curvature of a spherical mirror the reflected ray:
An object is placed at 4 cm distance in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 24 cm. Find the position of image. Is the image magnified?
Select the correct option:
A concave mirror is made by cutting a portion of a hollow glass sphere of radius 30 cm. The focal length of the concave mirror is:
Define the following term in relation to concave mirror.
Radius of curvature
Define the term Principal focus.
Define the term Focus of a concave mirror.
