Light and Shadows
Learn about light and shadow fundamentals including dispersion, transparency/translucency/opacity, luminous bodies, rectilinear propagation of light, shadow formation, eclipses, and rainbow colors.
Questions
The splitting up of light into its various components is called _______.
- spectrum
- dispersion
- deviation
- emission
Mark the things as transparent, translucent and opaque from the following:
Wall, Glass and Tracing paper
- Transparent, opaque and translucent
- Transparent, translucent and opaque
- Opaque, transparent and translucent
- Translucent, opaque and transparent
Which of the following is not a type of light source?
- Burning candle
- Firefly
- Moon
- Sun
If we pass a white light through 1st prism, it gives the spectrum of colours. Which colour will be deviated, if we put a second prism in front of the first?
- Red
- Blue
- White
- Orange
Which of the following is the name given to bodies, which emit light of their own?
- Shadow
- Opaque body
- Luminous body
- Non-luminous body
Which of the following is not translucent?
- Waxed paper
- Air
- Dirty water
- Dark coloured glass
Pinhole camera is based on
- reflection of light
- refraction of light
- rectilinear propagation of light
- none of these
Which of the following is not an example of opaque object?
- Wood
- Glass
- Brick
- Stone
Which of the following are luminous objects?
Tubelight, Moon, Sun, Earth
- Tubelight, Moon
- Tubelight, Sun
- Sun, Earth
- Sun, Moon
Which of the following is not transparent?
- Clean water
- Air
- Plastic
- Clear glass
A shadow is formed when some ________ object comes in the path of light.
- Round
- Opaque
- Transparent
- Translucent
Which property of light accounts for the occurrence of Eclipses of the sun and moon?
- Refraction
- Reflection
- Property that light travels in straight line
- None of these
If we place a candle in front of a pinhole camera, what kind of image is formed inside it?
- Virtual
- Erect
- Real
- No image
We have a lamp, a big and a small ball, placing the big ball infront of the lamp so that its shadow falls on the smaller ball. Considering the lamp as Sun, big ball as Earth and the smaller ball as the Moon, what kind of eclipse is happening?
- Lunar Eclipse
- Solar Eclipse
- Moon Eclipse
- Nothing is happening
Which of the following is the 3rd colour to the left of the blue colour in the colours of a rainbow?
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
Pick the odd one out.
- Moon
- Flame of a candle
- Sun
- Tubelight