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Newton's colour disc - class-X

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How many colours comprises white light?

  1. infinite

  2. seven

  3. three

  4. fourteen


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

White light comprises of seven colours- Violet, Indigo, Blue. Green, Yellow, Orange , Red. 

So, when white light consisting  of seven colors falls on a transparent medium (glass prism) , each color in it is refracted ( or deviated ) by a different angle , with the result that seven colors are spread out to form a spectrum, The red color is deviated least , so it forms the upper part of the spectrum . On the other hand, violet color is deviated the maximum, so violet appears at the bottom of the spectrum.

Monochromatic light is that light in which :

  1. yellow and red light is present

  2. various wavelengths are present

  3. red and violet light is present

  4. single wavelength is present


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Chromatic is something related to color. So "monochromatic" means a single color, which means light of single wavelength. 
Hence correct answer is D.

Which of the following sources of light is different from others ?

  1. Sunlight

  2. White light

  3. Light from a bulb

  4. Sodium light


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

$Answer:-$ D option

Sunlight,white light , light from bulb when passed from prism will split into its constituent colours,i.e. spectrum will be seen.
But when sodium light is passed it will not show colour band since it is a monochromatic light(light having only one constituent colour). 

_________ discovered that white light consists of seven colours.

  1. Walt Disney

  2. Frank Starling

  3. Laplace

  4. Sir Isaac Newton


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sir Isaac Newton in 1666 discovered that light consists of seven colours.

What are the components of sunlight:

  1. Violet,red,yellow,white,magenta,purple,silver

  2. Violet,blue,green,red,indigo,yellow,orange

  3. Red,yellow,black,orange,silver,violet,blue

  4. Can't be determined


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sunlight is reffered as white light.It consist of seven colours,i.e VIBGYOR

Primary colours of light are:

  1. red, yellow, blue

  2. blue, orange, green

  3. red, blue, green

  4. all colours


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Red, blue and green are known as the three primary colours. Those are often regarded as basic colours in nature. By mixing these colours in different proportions, all other colours may be obtained.

What are composite colours?

  1. Colours produced by mixing two or more primary colours, in proper proportions.

  2. Colours which combine easily with primary colours

  3. Tertiary colours when mixed in proper proportions

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Red,blue ,green are known as the three primary colours. By mixing these colours in different proportions, we get all other colours. The primary colours, when mixed in proper proportion, give us white light. Any other colour,produced by mixing two or more primary colours, in different proportions, is called a composite colour.

The middle colour in sunlight spectrum is:

  1. yellow

  2. green

  3. blue

  4. orange


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

As violet,indigo,blue,green,yellow,orange and red are the colours of the spectrum.Hence,green is the middle colour in sunlight spectrum.

____ is an example of a light having a spectrum of 7 colors.

  1. Sunlight

  2. White light

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Isaac Newton was the first person to split sunlight into seven colors using a glass prism. When he tried to split the band of colors further using a second prism placed in the inverted position as compared to that of the first, he observed that the emergent ray was white colored. This gave him an idea that sunlight is made up of 7 colors and any other light that gives a spectrum similar to that of sunlight is often referred to as white light.

How many colored components does white light have?

  1. 4

  2. 5

  3. 6

  4. 7


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The prism splits the incident white light into a band of 7 colors. The various colors seen in the band are arranged in a particular sequence of Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red (VIBGYOR).

If a newton's colour disc composed of seven colours is rotated at high speed, it appears as 

  1. Seven coloured disc rotating

  2. Few colours merge and only three dominant colours are visible

  3. Colours mix and it appears white

  4. Colours mix giving a sparkling effect


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

When newton's colour disc is rotated at high speed it appears white.

When the Newton's disc is rotated what happens

  1. The colours fade to white

  2. The colours fade to black

  3. The colours fade to red

  4. The colours fade to blue


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Newton's colour disc, as the name suggests, was invented by Sir Issac Newton and is a disc with seven segments in rainbow colours.
When the disc is rotated, the colours fade to white. In this way, Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that white light is a combination of the seven different colours found in a rainbow.

Hence, the correct answer is OPTION A.

What is the sequence of colors obtained on splitting of white light?

  1. VBIGYOR

  2. VIBGOYR

  3. VIBGYOR

  4. VIGBYOR


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The sequence of colours obtained on splitting of white light is VIBGYOR- Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.

Sunlight is made up of ____ colors.

  1. 7

  2. 6

  3. 5

  4. 4


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Isaac Newton was the first person to split sunlight into seven colors using a glass prism. When he tried to split the band of colors further using a second prism placed in the inverted position as compared to that of the first, he observed that the emergent ray was white colored. This gave him an idea that sunlight is made up of 7 colors and any other light that gives a spectrum similar to that of sunlight is often referred to as white light.

Which of the following most appropriately defines a spectrum?

  1. The band of seven colours is known as spectrum

  2. The process of splitting of white light into seven colours is known as spectrum

  3. The different wavelength of light are termed as spectrum

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Visible range consists of seven different colours i.e, VIBGYOR. The band of these seven colours is known as spectrum.

Newton's colour disc was invented by whom?

  1. Albert Einstein

  2. Sir Isaac Newton

  3. Sir Isaac Newton and Faraday

  4. Sir Isaac Newton and John Kennedy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Newton's colour disc, as the name suggests, was invented by Sir Issac Newton and is a disc with seven segments in rainbow colours.

Hence, the correct answer is OPTION B. 

The light of one single colour is called:

  1. monochromatic

  2. multichromatic

  3. dichromatic

  4. polychromatic


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Monochrome means single colour. The light of one single colour is monochromatic. White light have seven colours. So it is polychromatic.

What does Newton's colour disc possess?

  1. 7 segments in rainbow colours

  2. 5 segments in rainbow colours

  3. 4 segments in rainbow colours

  4. 9 segments in rainbow colours


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Newton's colour disc, as the name suggests, was invented by Sir Issac Newton and is a disc with seven segments in rainbow colours.

Hence, the correct answer is OPTION A. 

From below given colors, which colour is not present in 7 colours of rainbow?

  1. Violet

  2. Purple

  3. Green

  4. Indigo


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

As per VIBGYOR we have :Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red colour in rainbow.

Due to which phenomena the combination of red, green and blue forms the same white colour

  1. Due to persistence of vision

  2. Due to reflection

  3. Due to refraction

  4. Due to deviation


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Due to persistence of vision the combination of red, green and blue forms the same white color.

It was the British scientist _______who discovered in 1666 that light consists of seven colours. Fill in the blank.

  1. Henry

  2. John Dalton

  3. Sir Issac Newton

  4. Einstein


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (a) Sir Issac Newton.

In 1666, during one of his optical experiments, Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a glass prism. The glass prism split the light into a band of seven colours on his wall. This phenomena is known as dispersion of light

He called this band of colours the ‘spectrum’. Thus the spectrum is a band of seven colours which is obtained by splitting of white light by a glass prism.

The discovery of Newton's colour disc proves which of the following statement?

  1. Light is colourless

  2. Light is not colourless

  3. Light has only 1 colour

  4. Light has only 3 basic colours


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The perception of a picture or a color stays in the human brain for a fraction of a second. Newton's color disk is a mechanical device that rotates an array of colors arranged as petals or gradients around an axis and when the disc rotates fast enough the perception of the color changes to white. This is because white light is nothing but the mixture of light of all wavelengths in the visible range.

Sir Isaac Newton used this device to prove the above assertion that white color is the mixture of all colors.

SO Light is not colourless.

When sun rays are passed through a glass prism it gets

  1. Deviated, but not dispersed

  2. Deviated and dispersed

  3. Dispersed, but not deviated

  4. Neither deviated nor dispersed


Correct Option: B

Which of the following two colours are complementary colours? 

  1. Red and Gresn

  2. Red and Magenta

  3. Red and Cyan

  4. Yellow and Red


Correct Option: C

When a drop of water is introduced between the glass plate and plano-convex lens in Newton's rings system, the ring system

  1. Contracts

  2. Expands

  3. Remains same

  4. First expands then contracts


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The diameter of Newton's rings is inversely proportional to refractive index. Therefore when a drop of water is introduced between the glass plate and plano-convex lens in Newton's rings, the ring system contacts. 

Rainbow is observed when the Sun is 

  1. In front of the observer

  2. Behind the observer

  3. Vertically above the observer

  4. In any of these position


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The sun is always behind the observer. This is because the rainbow is actually just sunlight which has been refracted and reflected.

In the Newton's rings set up, when a drop of water is introduced between the glass plate and planoconvex lens the observed ring system

  1. Contracts

  2. Expands

  3. Remains the same

  4. Expands and then contracts


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Since diameter of the ring is inversely proportional to the square root of refractive index of the medium between the planoconvex lens and plane glass plate, therefore as refractive index increases, diameter of the rings decrease, that is the rings contract. 

In Newton's experiment the radii of the $m^{th}$ and $(m+4)^{th}$ dark rings are respectively $\sqrt{5}$mm and $\sqrt{7}$mm. What is the value of m?

  1. $2$

  2. $4$

  3. $8$

  4. $10$


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Radius of mth dark fringe   $r _m = \sqrt{mR\lambda}$
Thus we get  $r _{m+4} = \sqrt{7} = \sqrt{(m+4)R\lambda}$     ......(1)
Also,  $r _m = \sqrt{5} = \sqrt{mR\lambda}$      .......(2)
Dividing equation (1) with equation (2),  
$ \sqrt{\dfrac {m+4}{m} }= \sqrt{\dfrac{7}{5}}$
$\dfrac{m+4}{m} = \dfrac{7}{5}$
$5(m+4)= 7m$
$5m+20= 7m$
$2m=20$
$\implies   \ m=10$

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