Your chapter is “The Human Eye and the Colourful World.” Here is every topic in very simple language.
Your eye works a little like a camera.
Light enters through the cornea, the clear front part.
The iris is the coloured part of the eye.
The pupil is the small opening in the iris. It controls how much light enters.
The eye lens bends light.
The retina is like a screen at the back of the eye.
The retina sends messages to the brain through the optic nerve.
The brain understands these messages, and you see the world.
The cornea is the clear, curved covering at the front of the eye.
It protects the eye and bends most of the light entering it.
The iris acts like a curtain.
In bright light, it makes the pupil smaller.
In dim light, it makes the pupil larger.
This keeps too much light from hurting the eye and lets more light in when it is dark.
The eye lens focuses light onto the retina.
It changes its shape to see nearby and faraway objects clearly.
The retina is a light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye.
It has special cells that react to light and send signals to the brain.
The image formed on the retina is:
Real
Upside down
Smaller than the object
The brain turns it into the picture we understand.
The optic nerve carries messages from the retina to the brain.
It is like an electrical cable connecting the eye to the brain.
Accommodation means the eye changing the shape of its lens to focus.
The eye lens becomes thinner.
Its focal length becomes longer.
The eye lens becomes thicker.
Its focal length becomes shorter.
This happens because of the ciliary muscles.
The near point is the closest distance at which a normal eye can see clearly without strain.
For a young person, it is about:
[ 25\text{ cm} ]
If you hold a book too close, the eye cannot focus comfortably and the words look blurry.
The far point is the farthest point that the eye can see clearly.
For a normal eye, the far point is:
[ \text{infinity} ]
This means a normal eye can see very distant objects clearly.
Sometimes the eye lens becomes cloudy, like a dirty window.
This condition is called a cataract.
It can make vision blurry or cause loss of vision. Doctors can often treat it with surgery.
Sometimes the eye cannot focus light properly on the retina.
The main defects are:
Myopia
Hypermetropia
Presbyopia
They can usually be corrected with suitable lenses.
Myopia means short-sightedness.
A person with myopia can see nearby things clearly but distant things look blurry.
The image forms in front of the retina.
It may happen because:
The eyeball is too long.
The eye lens is too powerful or too curved.
Myopia is corrected with a concave lens.
The concave lens spreads the light rays slightly, helping the eye focus the image on the retina.
Hypermetropia means far-sightedness.
A person with hypermetropia can see faraway things clearly but nearby things look blurry.
The image forms behind the retina.
It may happen because:
The eyeball is too short.
The eye lens does not bend light strongly enough.
Hypermetropia is corrected with a convex lens.
The convex lens brings the light rays together before they enter the eye.
Presbyopia usually happens as people get older.
The eye lens becomes less flexible, and the ciliary muscles become weaker.
The person has difficulty seeing nearby objects clearly.
Presbyopia may be corrected with:
Convex lenses
Bifocal lenses
Progressive lenses
Bifocal spectacles have two parts:
The upper part helps with distant vision.
The lower part helps with nearby vision.
They can help someone who has both myopia and presbyopia.
Some vision problems can also be corrected using:
Contact lenses
Laser surgery
Other medical treatments
A doctor decides which treatment is suitable.
The cornea of a person who has died may help restore someone else’s sight.
Eyes must be removed soon after death and taken to an eye bank.
People who wear spectacles can often still donate their eyes.
A prism is a transparent glass object with sloping sides.
When light passes through it, the light bends.
The light bends:
Toward the normal when entering glass.
Away from the normal when leaving glass.
Because the prism’s sides are slanted, the outgoing ray changes direction.
The angle between the two sloping faces of a prism is called the angle of the prism.
It controls how much the prism changes the direction of light.
The angle between the original direction of the light and its new direction after passing through the prism is called the angle of deviation.
In simple words, it tells us how much the prism turns the light.
White light looks like one colour, but it is really a mixture of many colours.
A glass prism can separate white light into its colours.
This splitting is called dispersion.
The band of colours produced when white light splits is called a spectrum.
The colours are:
Violet
Indigo
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
Red
A memory word is:
VIBGYOR
Each colour bends by a different amount.
Violet bends the most.
Red bends the least.
So the colours spread out and become visible separately.
Isaac Newton passed sunlight through a prism and saw seven colours.
He then passed these colours through another upside-down prism.
The colours joined together again and produced white light.
This showed that white light is made from many colours.
A rainbow is a natural spectrum in the sky.
Tiny raindrops act like little prisms.
Inside a raindrop:
Sunlight enters and bends.
White light splits into colours.
The light reflects inside the drop.
The light bends again while leaving.
A rainbow appears opposite the Sun.
Atmospheric refraction means light bending as it travels through layers of air.
Different layers of air can have different temperatures and densities.
This makes light bend little by little.
Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through moving layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
The light bends slightly differently from moment to moment.
So the star appears to change brightness and position.
Planets are closer to Earth and look like small discs, not tiny points.
Light from different parts of the planet gets mixed together.
The changes mostly cancel out, so planets usually do not twinkle noticeably.
Because air bends sunlight, we can see the Sun:
About two minutes before it has really risen.
About two minutes after it has really set.
This is called advance sunrise and delayed sunset.
Near sunrise and sunset, the Sun may look slightly squashed or flattened.
This happens because different parts of the Sun’s light bend by different amounts in the atmosphere.
Scattering happens when tiny particles change the direction of light.
Dust, smoke, water droplets, and air molecules can scatter light.
The Tyndall effect is the visible path of light caused by scattering from tiny particles.
Examples:
Sunlight entering a dusty room
Light beams in fog
Sunlight passing through a forest
The tiny particles make the light path visible.
Sunlight contains many colours.
Air molecules scatter blue light more strongly than red light.
The scattered blue light reaches our eyes from all directions, so the sky looks blue.
At very high altitudes, there is much less air.
There are fewer particles to scatter light.
So the sky looks dark or black to astronauts.
Red light has a longer wavelength and is scattered less by fog, smoke, and dust.
It can travel farther and remain visible.
That is why danger signals and stop lights are usually red.
The eye uses a lens to focus light on the retina.
Ciliary muscles help the eye focus on objects at different distances.
Concave lenses correct myopia.
Convex lenses correct hypermetropia.
A prism splits white light into seven colours.
Raindrops make rainbows.
Atmospheric refraction causes twinkling and early sunrise.
Scattering makes the sky blue and danger signals red.
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