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To Truly Understand a Rainbow

ICSE · Class 7 · English Literature : Book 'Gulmohar'

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4 Topics · ICSE Class 7 English Literature : Book 'Gulmohar'

Topics in To Truly Understand a Rainbow

1

Newton and the discovery of light

  • Isaac Newton was an unpopular, solitary, brilliant college student in the early 1660s.
  • He bought two prisms at a market near his college, even though he had very little money.
  • The Great Plague spread through London and forced Newton to leave college and go to Woolsthorpe Manor.
2

The crucial experiment and Newton's theory

  • Newton performed an experimentum crucis, which means a crucial experiment.
  • He placed a screen between the window and the prism and made a slit in the screen.
  • Only pure green light was allowed to pass through the slit.
3

Rainbow and scientific thinking

  • Newton's discovery helped explain how a rainbow is formed.
  • A natural rainbow forms when sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed inside water droplets in the atmosphere.
  • Newton showed that white light can split into many colours.
4

Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu

  • Sarojini Naidu was known as The Nightingale of India.
  • She also wrote The Bazaars of Hyderabad and The Wandering Singers.
  • The poem is a call to the fishermen to go out to sea early in the morning.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Newton's discovery that white light contains all colours and that a prism separates them into a spectrum

Isaac NewtonThe Great PlagueOld ideas about white lightPrism experimentSpectrum and coloursWavelength and refractionCrucial experimentRainbow formation

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What are the important topics in To Truly Understand a Rainbow for ICSE Class 7 English Literature : Book 'Gulmohar'?
Key topics in To Truly Understand a Rainbow include Chapter Overview – To Truly Understand a Rainbow, Newton's Discovery of Light and Color - Concept Overview, Key Events in Newton's Discovery. These are the concepts ICSE Class 7 examiners draw on most — study them first, then practise related questions.
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