Home
Class 12
PHYSICS
The refractive indices of a prism for re...

The refractive indices of a prism for red, violet and yellow lights are `1.52, 1.62` and `1.59` resp. What is the dispersive power of the prism ? If mean deviation is `40^@`. What is angular dispersion produced by the prism ?

Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise TYPE H|19 Videos

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise TYPE J|11 Videos

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise TYPE E|10 Videos

  • OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

    SL ARORA|Exercise Problems for self practice|35 Videos

  • SOLIDS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

    SL ARORA|Exercise PROBLEM_TYPE|9 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

The angular dispersion produced by a prism

The angular dispersion produced by a prism

If refractive index of red, violet and yellow light are 1.42, 1.62 and 1.50 respectively for a medium. Its dispersive power will be

If the refractive indices of a prism for red, yellow and violet colours be 1.61, 1.63 and 1.65 respectively, then the dispersive power of the prism will be

For a medium, refractive indices for violet, red and yellow are 1.62, 1.52 and 1.55 respectively, then dispersive power of medium will be

For a material the refractive indices for red violet and yellow colour light are respectively 1.52, 1.64 and 1.60 The dispersive power of the material is

The refractive indices of flint glass prism for violet, Yellow and Red colours are 1.790, 1.795 and 1.805 respectively, find dispersive power of the flint glass.

The refractive indices for violet, yellow and red colours for a flint glass prism are 1.634, 1.623 and 1.616. Calculate the dispersive power of the prism material.

On what factors does the dispersive power of a prism depend ?

SL ARORA-RAY OPTICS-TYPE G
  1. A double convex lens is made of glass of refractive index 1.5. If its ...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. A double convex lens is made of glass of refractive index 1.55 with bo...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. The radius of curvature of the faces of a double convex lens are 10 cm...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. A biconvex lens has a focal length half the radius of curvature of eit...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. A double convex lens has focal length 25 cm. The radius of curvature o...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. A plano-convex lens mu = 1.5 has focal length of 18 cm in air. Calcula...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. A convex lens of focal legnth 0.2 m and made of glass (mu = 1.50) is ...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. The radii of curvature of double convex lens are 10 cm and 20 cm respe...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. If the refractive index from air to glass is 3/2 and that from air to ...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. A double convex lens has a focal length of 25 cm in air. When it is di...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. An equiconvex lens of focal length 15 cm is cut into two equal halves ...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. One face of prism of refracting angle 30^@ and refractive index 1.414 ...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. An equilateral glass prism (mu = 1.6) is immersed in water (mu = 1.33)...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. Calculate angle of dispersion between red and violet colours produced ...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. A thin prism of 6^@ angle gives a deviation of 3^@. The refractive in...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Show that the angle of deviation produced by a thin prism is reduced t...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. A prism with refracting angle 60^@ gives angle of minimum deviation, 5...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. The refractive indices of a prism for red, violet and yellow lights ar...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. The radii of curvature of a double convex lens are 30 cm and 60 cm and...

    Text Solution

    |