Question 19
How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.

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We can use two identical prisms, one placed inverted with respect to the other so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light.

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Question 19 How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.

We can use two identical prisms, one placed inverted with respect to the other so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light.

Question 19
How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.