Why Is Crystal Better Than Glass?

Q: Explain underdamping ?

A: Damping in physics hinders or restrains the oscillating motion of a system. Depending on the level…

Q: Tennis balls used to be white. What is their color today, and why?

A: Tennis ball used to be white. But after the advent of television, white color was found difficult to…

Q: Why are there things that are reflective and non-reflective

A: This is not a simple question to answer. There are many factor which includes, why they will reflect…

Q: Wet your finger and rub it slowly around the rim of a thinrimmed, stemmed wine glass while you hold…

A: The friction due to the wet finger movement across the rim of the glass produces sound waves.

Q: Which warms more quickly in sunlight- a colorless or a colored piece of glass? Why?

A: A colored glass can absorb all the colors except its own color while the colorless glass can't…

Q: What is the meaning of LCD?

A: LCD is used in the monitors of computers, the display panel of televisions, and many other digital…

Q: Does the laser beam from the laser device degrade when passing through a glass prism?  *  Yes…

A: Generally lasers are very narrow band. Their bandwidth might be a thousand times narrower than the…

Q: When energetic electrons in the glass structure vibrate against neighboring atoms, what happens to…

A: According to the law of conservation of energy, the energy can neither be created and nor be…

Q: Why does water make a shirt darker?

A: Transparency: When an object is placed in the sight of an eye and a person is still be able to see…

Q: Why does the blood of injured deep sea drivers look greenish black in underwater photograph when…

A: Water absorbs different wavelengths of light to different degrees. The longest wavelengths with the…

Q: Water on a clean glass plate spreads into a thin film but a small amount of water placed on a flat…

A: There exists cohesive force between the water molecules and adhesive force between the water and the…

Q: What is the fate of energy in ultraviolet light that is incident upon glass?

A: When ultraviolet light is incident on the glass, resonance occurs and the electrons vibrate with…

Q: Why do clouds seem floating in the sky?

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Q: Does light behave primarily as a wave or as a particle when it interacts with the crystals of matter…

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Q: Light is viewed as a ______________ under geometric optics.

A: When a light ray strikes the boundary between two transparent materials, the light ray will be…

Q: Describe the cause of the diamond's sparkle.

A: Cause of diamond sparkle

Q: Do you think light acts as a particle or as a wave?

A: The light acts as both, a particle as well as a wave. Different experiments are conducted by various…

Q: Why are the celling of concert hall curved?

A: The ceiling of concert halls are curved because people seated at the back rows of the hall may not…

Q: What is meant by scattering of light?

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Q: How rainbow is formed?

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Q: Why do diamonds sparkle?

A: A diamond, which has a very complex internal structure sparkles very brightly under a good light.…

Q: Why it be so hard to drag a rubber over smooth glass keeping in mind that frction is created by…

A: The rubber and the smooth glass are two non conducting material or non polar substance, when the…

Q: Does the laser beam from the laser device degrade when passing through a glass prism?

A: Laser beams are considered as monochromatic beams .

Q: are opaque glasses better than amber colored glasses in light protection?

A: Amber glasses are the of dark version of yellow , red or orange glasses which  are good for light…

Q: our eyes are most sensitive to which colour?

A: The average normal human sighted eye is most sensitive under daylight conditions at a wavelength of…

Q: Why does the Sun look reddish at sunrise and sunset but not at noon?

A: The sun appears reddish at sunrise and sunset due to the scattering of light due the small air…

Q: The translucence that is observed when paper comes into contact with oil is due to the __________ of…

A: Answer:-  Index of Refraction    The translucence that is observed when paper comes into contact…

Q: Why does a rainbow exist only in a narrow band?

A: The rainbow is caused by the refraction of light through the water droplets. The angle of refraction…

Q: Discuss in detail the formation of rainbows.

A: Visible light have seven frequency bands that each corresponds to a different color. The order of…

Q: Why are metals shiny?

A: Metals have a lot of free electrons which absorbs energy and moves to higher energy levels.

Q: What determines whether a material is transparent or opaque?

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Q: What colours in white light are transmitted and absorbed by red glass?

A: Red light is transmitted and other orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet absorbed by red…

Q: A ray of light passes from glass to water.

A: (i)  Using Snell's law ng Sin i = nw Sin r 1.52 X Sin 35 = 1.33 X Sin r 0.655159 = Sin r Sin-1…

Q: Which is an example of diffuse reflection? Light reflects off a green sheet of construction paper.…

A: In all the options mentioned here, the incident light ray does not emerge as a single coherent light…

Q: What is the fate of the energy in visible light that is incident upon glass?

A: Visible light incident on the glass

Q: Why are liquid droplets always spherical?

A: Due to surface tension liquid droplets are spherical

Dispersion of White Light

Snell’s law is a formula that gives a relation between the angle of incidence and angle of refraction and is given as: