What is diffraction?

Q: hat is the cause of dispersion of white light as it passes through a prism?

A: Dispersion occurs due to the different degrees of refraction experienced by different colours of…

Q: What is reflection?

A: Reflection can be defiend in many ways:1. Reflection is a phenomena in which rays of light (or waves…

Q: What is the cause of refraction?

A: The reason for refraction is change in speed while entering from one medium to another medium.

Q: The colors on an oil slick are caused by what two-wave properties of light?

A: The light is reflected from top and bottom surfaces of the oil slick.  The path of the oil slick…

Q: What is the difference between reflection and refraction?

A: Difference between Reflection and refraction is given below :

Q: What is the meaning of monotone color?

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Q: What is the color of visible light of the lowest frequencies?

A: the color which has lowest frequency or longer wavelength in the visible light is the red color…

Q: What is the source of all waves?

A: Generally waves are produced by creating a disturbance in a medium or sometimes vibration.

Q: Why are sound waves invisible?

A: Sound waves are not always invisible. Sound is simply the ordered vibration of matter. Any time you…

Q: How is wavelenght of light related to its frequency?

A: the wavelength and frequency of light are mutually independent to each other . as the wavelength…

Q: What is interference?

A: When two Coherent source of light superimposes to give a single modified wave. Coherent sources…

Q: Give 1 application of Interference and Diffraction of Light

A: Diffraction & Interference of Light  Defination:- When a light wave  travelling in straight path…

Q: How will light diffract from the aperture below?

A: The bending of waves from an obstacle’s corner or through an opening (or aperture) and forms the…

Q: What about diffraction of light?

A: Diffraction is a result of superposition of two different Secondary wavelets coming from different…

Q: What is the color of visible light of the lowest frequencies? Of the highest frequencies?

A: Given:  visible light

Q: what are the three laws of refraction?

A: Given: what are the three laws of refraction

Q: What are two types of interference?

A: Constructive Interference is a type of interference that occurs along the medium where the two…

Q: Why do longer wavelengths experience more diffraction than smaller wavelengths?

A: When light bends when it passes across a border between two different mediums, each with a different…

Q: What makes a rainbow curved?

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Q: Is diffraction more pronounced through a small opening or through a large opening?

A: Diffraction is most observed when the slit/opening size is comparable to the wavelength of the…

Q: Which has higher frequency: red or blue light?

A: Red light has a slightly longer wavelength than blue light. Red light (at one end of the visible…

Q: When compared to the speed of light, sound waves travel

A: When compared to the speed of light, sound waves travel slower

Q: What type of wave is light?

A: The light wave is transverse in nature.

Q: The violet light is bent more than red light. Why?

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Q: Which type of wave never shows the property of diffraction? *

A: Which type of wave never shows the property of diffraction?

Q: What is refraction?

A: What is refraction?

Q: Radio waves diffract Y [Select ] less than visible light. more

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Q: Where does color come from?

A: Color is linked exactly with the electromagnetic radiation of certain range of wavelength visible to…

Q: How is the wavelength of light related to its frequency?

A: Wavelength is defined as it is the distance between the identical points in the adjacent cycles of…

Q: What is the color of visible light of the highest frequencies?

A: When the oscillations are faster, the frequency is high. Thus the energy is also high. Therefore,…

Q: How do diffraction and interference demonstrate the wave nature of light?

A: The bending of a wave when an obstacles is present at the edge,the bending is called Diffraction.…

Q: What is refraction? Under what circumstances does it occur?

A: Refraction is the optical phenomenon of light which comes into picture when the light starts…

Q: Which color of white light is scattered the least? Give reason.

A: In the process of scattering, colour having long wavelength will scatter the least while one having…

Q: What is the visible result of refraction?

A: Refraction: It is the bending of light as it passes from one transparent substance into another.…

Q: What is Atmospheric Refraction?

A: The refraction of light by the Earth’s atmosphere is known as atmospheric refraction. Atmospheric…

Q: What is the difference between omnidirectional waves and unidirectional waves?

A: there are different types of wave  omnidirectional  unidirectional

Q: Waves don’t overlap in the image of a pinhole camera. Does this feature contribute to sharpness or…

A: If the pinhole in a pinhole camera is large, the rays will overlap on the image screen because of…

Q: In general, larger wavelengths tend to diffract more than smaller wavelengths

A: The amount of diffraction depends on the wavelength of light, with shorter wavelengths being…

Q: What is Dispersion?

A: The separation of white light into seven colors is called dispersion. This separation takes place…

Q: What is scattering of light?

A: The absorption light by the particles in the medium through which light passes id called Scattering…

Q: What produces iridescence?

A: Iridescence is caused by the interference of light waves.