Question

Cathode ray consists of

Answer 1

Hint: A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube in which an electron beam, deflected by applied electric or magnetic fields, produces a trace on a fluorescent screen. The function of the cathode ray tube is to convert an electrical signal into a visual display.

Complete answer:
Cathode ray, stream of electrons leaving the negative electrode (cathode) in a discharge tube containing a gas at low pressure, or electrons emitted by a heated filament in certain electron tubes. Cathode rays focused on a hard target (anticathode) produce X-rays or focused on a small object in a vacuum generate very high temperatures (cathode-ray furnace).
When cathode rays strike certain molecules used to coat a cathode screen, they cause the molecules (and hence the screen) to emit light. This effect, when coupled with the controlled deflection of a cathode ray by electric or magnetic fields, gives rise to the cathode ray oscilloscope (cathode-ray tube [CRT]) for monitoring variations and values of an alternating voltage or current and to the picture tube of television and radar.
Cathode rays or streams of electron particles are quite easy to produce, electrons orbit every atom and move from atom to atom as an electric current.
\[\therefore \] Cathode rays consist of electrons.

Note:
In a cathode ray tube, electrons are accelerated from one end of the tube to the other using an electric field. When the electrons hit the far end of the tube they give up all the energy they carry due to their speed and this is changed to other forms such as heat. A small amount of energy is transformed into X-rays.