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How and why refraction of white light causes the light to separate into a rainbow of colored light?
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∙ 12y ago
White light is a mixture of all colour. Each colour has a different wavelength. When light passes from one medium to another is is refracted (bent). Some wavelengths are refracted more than others, hence the light is split.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoBrown is a color as far as our eyes are concerned, but in reality brown is a mixture of several colors. When you see an object that is red, what you're seeing is the light that is reflected off of its surface.
A red object absorbs every color in the visible spectrum EXCEPT for red, which it bounces back into your eyeballs.
A brown object is doing the same thing, except instead of only bouncing back a single frequency of light it's bouncing back several of them which combine to look like brown to our eyes.
This color combination is what makes televisions and computer screens possible. Each pixel has a red, a blue and a green component. By mixing them in different proportions we can create any combination of color the human eye can see.
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∙ 12y agoWhite is not at all a colour. Same way black too is not at all a colour. Black is absense of colours. And white is the composition of all colours. Actually, in nature, there is no white at all. Only our human brain experiences white as we see all the colours get combined.
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∙ 12y agowhoever this is must go to cms and have mrs. rose :)- drew
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∙ 14y agoThe colors of the visible light spectrum are as follows:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
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∙ 14y agoYou just fail like that?
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What is the angle of the sun so that a rainbow can form?
Rainbows are formed through refraction. The refraction happens through the rain drops, causing the light (which is made up of a spectrum of colours) to split and causes a rainbow. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain -> Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. This is the order in which it refracts.
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 does each color of the rainbow stand for?
Red- SACRIFICEOrange- SEPARATIONYellow- LIFEGreen- HAPPINESSBlue- RIGHTEOUSNESSIndigo-COVERINGViolet-JUSTICEAnd the Bottom space is- LOVE FOR GODHOPE THIS HELPED!!!
How is refraction used in Fishing?
water bends in light because of refraction which causes fish to seem a little off than where they appear to be. Because of this fisherman need to know where to position their hooks when they can see fish
Is algae in the rainforest green?
because its full of plants and plants are full choraphyll and chloraplats with are green wich causes the plant to become green.
Is total internal reflection causes rainbow?
Nope. It's caused by refraction.
Which process causes a rainbow?
Refraction and total internal reflection of sun's radiation in fine droplets of water cause rainbow formation
What phenomenon cause color of visible light to be separate by a prism?
Refraction is the phenomenon causes colors of visible light to be separated by a prism.
What does refraction means in terms of rainbows?
Refraction of bending lightrefraction means the bending of light, and the refraction of light in a prism causes to 'split' light in all its colors (that we can see and not see)Refraction is the bending of light. The bending of light is defined mathematically by Snell's law. The degree of bending through rain drops produces the various colors of the rainbow.
What is the angle of the sun so that a rainbow can form?
Rainbows are formed through refraction. The refraction happens through the rain drops, causing the light (which is made up of a spectrum of colours) to split and causes a rainbow. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain -> Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. This is the order in which it refracts.
Can rainbows be formed by prisms?
Yes, the refraction of light through a 60o prism will separate the light into a spectrum (a rainbow). Which then causes the light to refracted internally causing light to bend in different directions because of the speed of the light. Red light being the faster one and violet being the slowest one.
What happens to coastlines over time?
Wave refraction causes deposition in the bays Wave refraction causes erosion of the headlands
What phenomenon causes rainbow?
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.
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 effect causes twinkling of stars?
refraction
What is the property of light that causes it to bend?
refraction
What causes refraction-?
Refraction is caused by light crossing from one medium to another.
