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Can white light be separated into a rainbow of colors when it goes through droplets of water?
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∙ 12y ago
White light is a collection of all the other colours of light. There is no such thing as "white" light.
Water will allow all colours of light to pass through, but it will absorb small amounts of light at certain wavelengths as it passes through. Water absorbs red light (lower energy waves) more than blue light (higher energy waves). Over short distances in water, the amount of light absorbed will be undetectable, but over larger distances the water will take on a dark blue colour as a result of light being absorbed, with more red light absorbed than blue light. The colour you see is what's left of the light after the water has absorbed some of it.
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∙ 14y ago
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Visible light can be separated into different colors by using a?
Separating light into various colors produces a spectrum or rainbow.
How does the raindrops make a rainbow?
Light is refracted -- bent -- both as it enters the droplets and as it leaves. The amount of refraction is dependent on the wavelength -- the color -- of the light. IF there are droplets of just the right size and IF the sun is positioned such that its light is reflected back from the droplets, an observor between the sun and the droplets will see a rainbow.
How are colors separated in the rainbow?
Rainbows occur shortly after it rains. White light (sunlight) consists of each color, each with a different wavelength. The rain partices act like a prism. The light goes into the prsim and refracts into every color. Other waves don't refract this way but certain colors bend more than others. The rain droplets bend the white light into separate colors to make a rainbow.
When droplets of water in the atmosphere act like prisms the colors in sunlight undergo?
a phenomenon called dispersion. This causes the different wavelengths of light to separate, resulting in the formation of a rainbow. The droplets act as miniature prisms, bending and reflecting light to create the distinctive bands of colors.
How does a rainbow get its color?
The light from the sun goes through the water vapor in the air. The vapor acts like a prism, projecting the spectrum (the colors) of the rainbow into the sky.
What forms when sunlight is separated into colors by tiny droplets of water in the air?
A rainbow
What process makes a rainbow after a rain storm?
the water droplets after the rain remains in the atmosphere. When the sunlight passes through this droplets the white light of the sun splits in to 7 colors this colors forms the rainbow
What happens when white light passes through a prism?
The light is broken into its seven colors (colors of the rainbow) and exits the prism at a different angle with the separated colors. It functions in the exact same way water droplets separate light to create an actual rainbow, but with cut glass instead of water.
When light passes through a prism it is separated into the colors of the the rainbow called?
Visible Spectrum
When white light is passed through a prism it separated into the colors of te rainbow called the?
Visible Spectrum
What two things that happen to light as it passes through the prism?
The light bends and it is separated in the different colors of the rainbow.
What cause the rainbow?
The colors of the rainbow are all present in sunlight, but mixed together. As sunlight passes through small water droplets in foggy air, the water droplets act as lenses which alter the direction of the light, and which affect different colors to different degrees, thereby breaking up the white light into a spectrum.
What does a prism do to light when it is going through a prism?
It separates white light into it's individual colors (rainbow). Rainbows are formed by water droplets acting as prisms
The part of the spectrum that can be separated into rainbow-like colors is?
Visible light rays
What the cause?
The colors of the rainbow are all present in sunlight, but mixed together. As sunlight passes through small water droplets in foggy air, the water droplets act as lenses which alter the direction of the light, and which affect different colors to different degrees, thereby breaking up the white light into a spectrum.
What causes the colors in a rainbow?
They are all there from the beginning, in the light we call "white". We see the colors separately when something ... water droplets in the air, for example ... spreads them out.
Why does a rainbow have different colours?
Rainbows have different colors because when the sun (which is actually white) reflects on a raindrop, the white from the sun projects the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet which make a colorful rainbow.
