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Notes of Human Eye and The Colourful World
Notes of Human Eye and The Colourful World
Myopic eye
Hypermetropic eye
Glass prism
Angle of deviation
Normal D
i e Angle of emergence
r
Incident ray Emergent ray
Refracted ray
R
O
Y
G
B Spectrum
Beam of white light I
V
Glass prism
When a beam of white light is passed through a glass
prism, it is split up into a band of colours called spectrum.
This is called dispersion of white light. The spectrum of
white has the colours violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow,
orange and red (VIBGYOR). The red light bends the least
and the violet light bends the most.
b) Recombination of the spectrum of white light
produces white light :-
White light
R R R
V
White light V V
Glass prisms
Refraction
Red Violet
Observer
Real position
Increasing
refractive index
of atmosphere
Eye
Atmosphere
Horizon Horizon
Sunset Sunrise
Observer
Earth
Real position Real position