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Human Eye and The Colorful World: Multiple Choice Questions: (MCQS)

The document contains 18 multiple choice questions about how white light interacts with glass prisms and the earth's atmosphere. When white light hits a prism, it disperses and separates into the visible color spectrum through refraction. Different colors of light refract at different angles, with violet light refracting the most and red light the least. This dispersion effect is responsible for the twinkling of stars but not planets, as atmospheric refraction bends starlight more than light from nearer planets. Due to refraction, the sun and stars appear higher in the sky than their true positions, lengthening daylight hours by about 4 minutes.

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Human Eye and The Colorful World: Multiple Choice Questions: (MCQS)

The document contains 18 multiple choice questions about how white light interacts with glass prisms and the earth's atmosphere. When white light hits a prism, it disperses and separates into the visible color spectrum through refraction. Different colors of light refract at different angles, with violet light refracting the most and red light the least. This dispersion effect is responsible for the twinkling of stars but not planets, as atmospheric refraction bends starlight more than light from nearer planets. Due to refraction, the sun and stars appear higher in the sky than their true positions, lengthening daylight hours by about 4 minutes.

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Human Eye and the colorful world

Multiple Choice Questions: (MCQs)


1. A beam of white light is shone onto a glass prism. The light cannot be:
(a) deviated (b) dispersed (c) focused (d) refracted
2. A beam of white light falls on a glass prism. The colour of light which undergoes the least bending
on passing through the glass prism is:
(a) violet (b) red (c) green (d) blue
3. The colour of white light which suffer the maximum bending on passing through a glass prism is:
(a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) violet
4. Which of the following colour of white light is least deviated by the prism?
(a) green (b) violet (c) indigo (d) yellow
5. The colour of white light which is deviated the maximum on passing through the glass prism is:
(a) blue (b) indigo (c) red (d) orange
6. The splitting up of white light into seven colours on passing through a glass prism is called:
(a) refraction (b) deflection (c) dispersion (d) scattering
7. Which of the following coloured light has the least speed in glass prism?
(a) violet (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
8. The colouredlight having maximum speed in glass prism is:
(a) blue (b) green (c) violet (d) yellow
9. Which of the following colour of white light has the leastwavelength?
(a) red (b) orange (c) violet (d) blue
10. Out of the following, the colour of light having the maximum wavelength is :
(a) violet (b) indigo (c) green (d) orange
11. The twinkling of stars is due to atmospheric:
(a) reflection of light (b) dispersion of light (c) interference of light (d) refraction of
light
12. The atmospheric refraction of light causes the twinkling of:
(a) planets only (b) stars only (c) planets & stars (d) stars &
satellites
13. The stars appears higher in the sky than they actually are, due to:
(a) diffraction of light (b) scattering of light (c) refraction of light (d) reflection of
light
14. The stars twinkle but the planets do not twinkle at night because:
(a) the stars are small but the planets are large
(b) the stars are very large but the planets are small
(c) the stars are much nearer but planets are far off
(d) the stars are far off but planets are nearer to earth
15. As light from a far off star comes down towards the earth:
(a) it bends away from the normal
(b) it bends towards the normal
(c) it does not bend at all
(d) it is reflected back
16. We can see the sun before the actual sunrise by about:
(a) 5 minutes (b) 2 minutes (c) 2 hours (d) 20 minutes
17. Due to atmospheric refraction of sunlight, the time from sunrise to sunset is lengthened by about:
(a) 6 minutes (b) 2 minutes (c) 4 minutes (d) 5 minutes
18. the day is longer on the earth by about 4 minutes because :
(a) the earth is round in shape (b) the earth rotates on its axis
(c) the earth revolves around the sun (d) the earth has atmosphere

Answers:
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (d) 5. (b) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9. (c) 10. (d) 11. (d) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (d)
15. (b) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18.(d)

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