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The refraction of light through water. Basically light travels through a surface such as water and the different light spectrums get broken down giving you the colors you see.
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What phenomenon causes altitudinal zonation?
Rain
What causes the relative width of colors on a rainbow?
wavelength
What phenomenon in hurricanes causes drowning?
The water rises to high and people can not swim forever.
What is the meaning when a rainbow appears in your house?
This probably means you are on a hallucinogenic drug, because that's impossible. Sunlight entering the house is being refracted through a piece of glass, such as a vase, which is acting as a prism and thus causing a rainbow effect. There is no significance or meaning to such a phenomenon.
Who found the rainbow in the sky?
Rainbows have been seen as long as humans have been here, so it is impossible to say who first saw one. The first documented appearance of a rainbow is that seen by Noah, Genesis 9:13. "I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth."
Is rainbow phenomenon optic physics?
True.
What is a rainbow above a rainbow called?
Highly educated research scientists refer to that rare phenomenon as a "double rainbow".
What is a natural phenomenon that produces a band of colours?
rainbow
Phenomenon in a sentence?
A red tide is a natural phenomenon that causes fish to die. The formation of lightning is a phenomenon still not completely understood.
Is rainbow a light source?
no it isnt. It is a result of a phenomenon of light
What branch of physics that explains rainbow phenomenon?
The branch is called optics.
What is the natural phenomenon caused by the suns rays and rain?
This is called a "Rainbow" in America.
What is the meaning of a rainbow reflection?
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch.
How white light light makes a rainbow?
White light, if passing through a prism, can make a rainbow via the optics phenomenon known as dispersion.
What phenomenon causes altitudinal zonation?
Rain
Who discovered the rainbow?
The first recorded theory about the rainbow phenomenon was formulated by Noah, who interpreted it as a sign of God's acceptance of his offering. The rainbow can be represented mathematically in terms of Snell's law (Willebrord Snellius) and the Fresnel boundary equations.
What phenomenon causes of visible light to be separated by a prism?
Dispersion
