Depending on how the 'lightwaves' are split, ie a prism, or water in the air from rain, what happens is (from my understanding) the light which is composed of many colors, is refracted by the angle/medium of the particular object that the light wave goes through.
Depending on the angle and material of the object, the visible colors vary. Dispersion
If you look up prisms, this will explain this phenomenon
Because the tiny particles of water in the air reflect the sunlight. The light splits and certain colours are reflected.
The electro magnetic spectrum - A prism can split light into a spectrum of colors, and starlight is light. Detail your question and you will have a detailed answer, if this answer does not do the job
No, a rainbow does not produce light, it is an effect of light being bent (refracted). The source of the light seen in a rainbow is the Sun.
No, a rainbow does not produce light, it is an effect of light being bent (refracted). The source of the light seen in a rainbow is the Sun.
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.
Isaac Newton discovered that when light passes through a prism, it splits into the seven colors of the rainbow. This phenomenon is known as the dispersion of light.
because the light travels through the water which splits the light and can only be seen from a certain distance away
Newton
A prism is an object that can split light into its component colors, creating a rainbow effect. When light passes through a prism, it is refracted (bent) at different angles depending on its wavelength, resulting in the separation of colors.
White light is split into the color spectrum of a rainbow by a process of refraction, reflection, and again refraction within a water droplet. Technically, the refractive index of whatever surface the white light hits determines how the light is split, and thus the size of the rainbow and the number of colors visible.
It splits into the colours that make it up, so white light makes a rainbow, and different colours produce different results.
Isaac newton is the correct answer. Newtons law of light.;)
Because the tiny particles of water in the air reflect the sunlight. The light splits and certain colours are reflected.
What we think of as white light is in fact a mixture of many "colors", or frequencies of light. A prism or a water droplet merely separates them, or bends them so that we see them a split.
Water droplets in the air act like a prism and bend the light rays from the Sun which splits the light into the individual wavelengths, allowing you to view it as a rainbow.
the material glass allows light to pass through it. when it passes through it changes the light into the colours of the rainbow. the colours come because the glass splits the light.
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