Newton's colour disc - class-X

Newton's colour disc demonstrates that white light consists of seven colors (VIBGYOR). Topics include: composition of white light, primary and composite colors, VIBGYOR spectrum, monochromatic vs polychromatic light, and how rotating the color disc appears white due to persistence of vision.

25 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many colours comprises white light?

  1. infinite
  2. seven
  3. three
  4. fourteen
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Monochromatic light is that light in which :

  1. yellow and red light is present
  2. various wavelengths are present
  3. red and violet light is present
  4. single wavelength is present
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following sources of light is different from others ?

  1. Sunlight
  2. White light
  3. Light from a bulb
  4. Sodium light
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

_________ discovered that white light consists of seven colours.

  1. Walt Disney
  2. Frank Starling
  3. Laplace
  4. Sir Isaac Newton
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the components of sunlight:

  1. Violet,red,yellow,white,magenta,purple,silver
  2. Violet,blue,green,red,indigo,yellow,orange
  3. Red,yellow,black,orange,silver,violet,blue
  4. Can't be determined
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Primary colours of light are:

  1. red, yellow, blue
  2. blue, orange, green
  3. red, blue, green
  4. all colours
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are composite colours?

  1. Colours produced by mixing two or more primary colours, in proper proportions.
  2. Colours which combine easily with primary colours
  3. Tertiary colours when mixed in proper proportions
  4. None of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The middle colour in sunlight spectrum is:

  1. yellow
  2. green
  3. blue
  4. orange
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

____ is an example of a light having a spectrum of 7 colors.

  1. Sunlight
  2. White light
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many colored components does white light have?

  1. 4
  2. 5
  3. 6
  4. 7
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a newton's colour disc composed of seven colours is rotated at high speed, it appears as 

  1. Seven coloured disc rotating
  2. Few colours merge and only three dominant colours are visible
  3. Colours mix and it appears white
  4. Colours mix giving a sparkling effect
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the Newton's disc is rotated what happens

  1. The colours fade to white
  2. The colours fade to black
  3. The colours fade to red
  4. The colours fade to blue
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the sequence of colors obtained on splitting of white light?

  1. VBIGYOR
  2. VIBGOYR
  3. VIBGYOR
  4. VIGBYOR
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sunlight is made up of ____ colors.

  1. 7
  2. 6
  3. 5
  4. 4
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following most appropriately defines a spectrum?

  1. The band of seven colours is known as spectrum
  2. The process of splitting of white light into seven colours is known as spectrum
  3. The different wavelength of light are termed as spectrum
  4. All of the above
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Newton's colour disc was invented by whom?

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Sir Isaac Newton
  3. Sir Isaac Newton and Faraday
  4. Sir Isaac Newton and John Kennedy
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The light of one single colour is called:

  1. monochromatic
  2. multichromatic
  3. dichromatic
  4. polychromatic
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does Newton's colour disc possess?

  1. 7 segments in rainbow colours
  2. 5 segments in rainbow colours
  3. 4 segments in rainbow colours
  4. 9 segments in rainbow colours
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From below given colors, which colour is not present in 7 colours of rainbow?

  1. Violet
  2. Purple
  3. Green
  4. Indigo
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Due to which phenomena the combination of red, green and blue forms the same white colour

  1. Due to persistence of vision
  2. Due to reflection
  3. Due to refraction
  4. Due to deviation
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

It was the British scientist _______who discovered in 1666 that light consists of seven colours. Fill in the blank.

  1. Henry
  2. John Dalton
  3. <span>Sir Issac Newton</span>
  4. Einstein
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The discovery of Newton's colour disc proves which of the following statement?

  1. Light is colourless
  2. Light is not colourless
  3. Light has only 1 colour
  4. Light has only 3 basic colours
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When sun rays are passed through a glass prism it gets

  1. Deviated, but not dispersed
  2. Deviated and dispersed
  3. Dispersed, but not deviated
  4. Neither deviated nor dispersed
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following two colours are complementary colours? 

  1. Red and Gresn
  2. Red and Magenta
  3. Red and Cyan
  4. Yellow and Red
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Rainbow is observed when the Sun is 

  1. In front of the observer
  2. Behind the observer
  3. Vertically above the observer
  4. In any of these position