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True or false A rainbow is a spectrum of light that appears when the sun shines onto water droplets in the air?
True, or more correctly, when the sunlight is refracted through the water droplets.
What do you see when sunlight is refracted through water droplets?
You see a rainbow. Sunlight is composed of different colors of light, each with a unique wavelength. When sunlight is refracted through water droplets in the air, the different colors of light separate and create a rainbow pattern, with red on the outer edge and violet on the inner edge.
What are 2 things that are needed to make a rainbow?
Two things needed to make a rainbow are sunlight and water droplets in the air. As sunlight passes through the water droplets, it is refracted and dispersed into its different colors, creating the visible spectrum of a rainbow.
What is a product of sun and rain?
A rainbow is a natural phenomenon that results from the interaction of sunlight and rain. When sunlight is refracted, reflected, and dispersed through water droplets in the air, it creates the colorful arc in the sky known as a rainbow.
What three factors are involved to see a rainbow?
Three factors involved in seeing a rainbow are sunlight, water droplets in the air (such as rain), and the observer's position relative to the light source and water droplets. When sunlight passes through and is refracted by water droplets in the air, it creates a spectrum of colors that form a rainbow.
When can we see rainbow?
Rain and Sunlight: A rainbow occurs when sunlight shines through water droplets in the atmosphere, usually after rain. The sunlight is refracted (bent) as it enters the droplet, then reflected off the inside surface of the droplet, and finally refracted again as it exits the droplet. This process splits the light into its different colors, creating 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.
Where does the white light from a rainbow come from?
The white light from a rainbow is a result of sunlight being dispersed and refracted by water droplets in the atmosphere. Each water droplet acts like a prism, breaking down sunlight into its component colors, and when the light is reflected and refracted multiple times within the droplet, we see the colors of the rainbow.
Why does a rainbow occur?
Rainbows occur when sunlight is refracted, or bent, and then reflected off water droplets in the air. The different colors of the rainbow are caused by the different wavelengths of light being separated and dispersed as they pass through the water droplets.
How does diffraction cause a rainbow?
Diffraction of sunlight through water droplets in the air causes the light to separate into its component colors, creating a rainbow. Each color is refracted at a slightly different angle, resulting in the distinctive arc shape of a rainbow.
How do you separate the rays in a light beam to make a rainbow?
To separate the rays in a light beam and make a rainbow, you can use a prism or water droplets in the atmosphere. When light enters a prism, it is refracted at different angles depending on its wavelength, causing the different colors in the light spectrum to separate. Similarly, when sunlight passes through water droplets in the air, it is refracted and dispersed, creating a rainbow.
If a rainbow is refracted sunlight why is it such a neat circle instead of looking scattered?
Because when sunlight gets refracted through water droplets in the air, the different wavelengths are refracted a precise amount in relation to each color that gets separated. The reason you see a circle, or arc, is because it came from a single source, the sun.
