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This website is awesome at explaining what is a rainbow and how it forms etc...
http://www.myuniversalfacts.com/2006/04/how-rainbows-are-formed-what-causes.html
The sun's light has wavelengths of many different colors, and when it rains there are many raindrops on the ground and the light refracts the light into a continuous band of colors. Check out that website for more detailed information about "white light" such as the sun's light and how it has wave lengths of colors...
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∙ 13y agoThe process by which a rainbow is formed by passing white light through a prism is called refraction.
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An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the suns rays by rain?
Refraction of sunlight by raindrops, the refraction depending upon wavelength to produce the colors
How and Why are colors dispersed in optics in a rainbow How do raindrops act as prisms Role of reflection and refraction in formation of rainbow?
The sun is all the different wavelengths of light. When all these lights hit water, the change in the speed of the light causes the light to defract away from one another, so you see th rainbow effect
How does a prism create a rainbow pattern of light?
White light is really all the colors of light, red to indigo, combined together. Running the light through a prism (including raindrops) splits those colors out separately because each light bends a little more or less than its neighboring colors when going through the prism (or raindrops).
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.
What is the results of combining all colors of the visible spectrum?
You get white light. This is an instructive experiment to perform with a pair of prisms.
Why is a rainbow sometimes seen when light passes through raindrops or prisms?
The light is refracted
How do get rainbows?
The sun makes rainbows when white sunlight passes through rain drops. The raindrops act like tiny prisms. They bend the different colors in white light, so the light spreads out into a band of colors that can be reflected back to you as a rainbow.
How is the rainbow began?
A rainbow is the result of the sun shining through water drops in the air along a line between you and the sun. The raindrops act as small prisms, separating the light into its many colors.
Why do you see different colours in a rainbow?
Rainbows occur when you see sunlight shining through a rainstorm. The curtain of raindrops act like millions of tiny prisms, which break light into it's component colors - a rainbow.
What is the best observation of refracting light?
Some of the best observations of refracting light comes from Prisms. A Prisms splits visible light into all of the colors of the spectrum allowing an individual to see the different colors that make up a beam of light.
What colours are made when light is passed through raindrops?
a bow of colors on rain!
An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the suns rays by rain?
Refraction of sunlight by raindrops, the refraction depending upon wavelength to produce the colors
How and Why are colors dispersed in optics in a rainbow How do raindrops act as prisms Role of reflection and refraction in formation of rainbow?
The sun is all the different wavelengths of light. When all these lights hit water, the change in the speed of the light causes the light to defract away from one another, so you see th rainbow effect
What can separate white light into its individual colors?
A prism. Water droplets can perform as prisms.
How do prisms work?
Refraction is when light bends through an object. White light is made up of all the colors of the spectrum. Different colors have different wavelengths, therefore they bend at different angles. So when white light passes through a prism the different colors bend at different angles, so they separate to produce the rainbow of light that we see.
Why are there lots of colors in a rainbow?
A rainbow occurs when a wave of light is filtered through a prism, in most cases, raindrops. The prism then separates the light into all of the colors from which it is comprised.
What did isaac newtons glass prisms show?
white light is made of all colors of the rainbow.
