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When sunlight passes through water droplets in the atmosphere it gets dispersed into its constituent colours forming a rainbow. A similar phenomenon is observed when white light passes through a prism.

(a) Which colour will show the maximum angle of deviation and which colour will show the minimum angle of deviation?

(b) If instead of sunlight, a green-coloured ray is passed through a glass prism. What will be the colour of the emergent ray?

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(a) When sunlight passes through water droplets in the atmosphere or through a prism, violet light shows the maximum angle of deviation, while red light shows the minimum angle of deviation.

(b) The colour of emergent ray will be green. A prism does not change the colour of light. It just disperses white light into its constituent colours.

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