Among red, yellow and blue, blue coloured light has the shortest wavelength.
A certain material has refractive indices 1.56, 1.60 and 1.68 for red, yellow and violet light respectively. (a) Calculate the dispersive power. (b) Find the angular dispersion produced by a thin prism of angle 6∘ made of this material.
In the spectrum of white light by a prism, the colour at the extreme end opposite to the base of prism is :
(a) violet (b) yellow
(c) red (d) blue.