Does a diamond under water sparkle more or less than in air? Defend your answer.

Q: When does light not refract upon entering a different medium?

A: refraction of light

Q: Why is light behaving important? Give some applications.

A: Importance of dual behavior of light:     ;

Q: Light needs a medium to be transported from source to destination.       True   Or   False

A: Wave is classified into two types. mechanical wave  nonmechanical wave mechanical wave requires…

Q: (a) As a beam of light passes from flint glass to diamond, does it bend closer to orfarther from the…

A: Introduction: Deviation of light from its original path is observed when travelling from refractive…

Q: Why do some objects only diffract around certain obstacles?

A: The phenomenon of diffraction is the bending of light around small (smaller than the wavelength of…

Q: When light passes from air to glass, how is the angle of incidence related to the angle of…

A: as we know, By Snell's law, for light passing through air to glass,       sin(i)sin(r)=μ2μ1,…

Q: What will happen to the image projected onto a screen by a lens when you cover one-third of the lens…

A: Concept: Every point of lens contributes to the whole image. It means that there is no change in the…

Q: Calculate the critical angle for the diamond-air boundary. (hint: Use table of indices of refraction…

A: We know,

Q: When a beam of white rays is dispersed by a prism which colour will be refracted to a larger extent

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Q: A small light bulb is set at the bottom of a pool with water in it sending light outward and upward.…

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Q: Explain what is the relationships between the shininess of a diamond and its index of refraction.

A: Dimond is the hardest material on earth. This is because of its carbon structure. In Dimond carbon…

Q: Choose the BEST answer to the following: Light that is not transmitted by opaque materials is (a)…

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Q: How could a converging lens be made for sound waves?

A: These types of lens should be made from a non-solid material like gas, allowing things to be…

Q: Name the color of which light which is deviated (a) the most (b) the least on passing through prism.

A: When a white light passes through the prism, the white light gets dispersed into different colors…

Q: Give refractive index of the following Air, Ice, Water, Alcohol and quartz.

A: The refractive index is a number which tells the how fast light travels through a given medium or…

Q: As light rays pass from air into glass prism, are they refracted towards or away from the normal?

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Q: A ray of light is incident from air (n = 1) onto crown glass (n = 1.5). Which of the scenarios…

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Q: (Ray Tracing When light passes through 2 mediums, of which the second has a higher average speed,…

A: “Since you have asked multiple questions, we will solve the first question for you. If you want any…

Q: Give practical applications of total internal reflection?

A: To explain: Practical applications of total internal reflection.

Q: bend" when it travels through optical fibers?

A: Given:  Optical fiber

Q: Cover the top half of a camera lens. What effect does this have on the pictures taken?

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Q: In the opening photo of the duck standing on the rock, why are the duck’s feet not shown in the…

A: As the reflection occurs at same position, the image of the feet formed at same place. The object…

Q: why light cannot easily escape a diamond ?

A: Question: Why light cannot easily escape diamond?   Answer: Suppose a diamond is in the air.  A ray…