Class 10 Science - Chapter The Human Eye and the Colourful World NCERT Solutions | How will you use two identical prisms so

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Question 19

How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.

Answer

Newton was the first who used the glass prism to obtain the spectrum (the band of coloured components of light beam) of sunlight. He tried to split the colour bands of the spectrum of white light by using or placing another similar prism in an inverted position with respect to the first prism. This will lead to passing all the colours through the second prism. Among all the seven colours of sunlight, any light that gives spectrum similar to the sunlight is known as white light.

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