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What happens when white light from the sun passes through raindrops?
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∙ 13y ago
The light separates, or refracts (I think that's the right word) into a rainbow inside the drop and recombines into white light as it leaves the drop. That is why you need many many drops to see a rainbow.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agothe raindrops act like a prism and it creates..... a rainbow!
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If light traveled at the same speed in raindrops as it does in air could rainbows exist?
No as it is the light refracting (slowing down) through the raindrops. The different colours in the white light travel at different speeds through the raindrop, which causes them to split up into the different colours of the rainbow. Obviously if the light didn't slow down it would continue as white light.
Light which bounces off the surface of an object is called?
When light changes direction as it passes through a boundary.
Why do we see a distorted view when we look through a window covered with raindrops?
The irregular shapes of the raindrops scatter the image of the outside as the light is refracted or bent when it hits the raindrops. It all goes back to the fact that the speed of light is slower in glass or liquid. You dont really notice a distortion in the glass as it is uniform - all the same thickness, but the raindrops are all different shapes, bending the light in many different angles.
A beam of light can be seen as it passe through a?
a beam of light can be seen if it passes through reflective material.
What occurs when light passes through matter?
Transmission
Why is a rainbow sometimes seen when light passes through raindrops or prisms?
The light is refracted
What happens to light when a rainbow forms?
It is refracted through raindrops.
How Light passes through water?
It happens by the refraction of light.
What happens when light passes through a cylindrical lens?
sh@@ happens
What happens when light is refracted through water from air?
The light will bend as it passes through.
What happens when light passes through lens?
The light refracts or bend .
What happens when light passes through one medium to another?
the light bends
What happens to light when it passes through different substances?
it refracts
What happens when light scatters?
It is redirected as it passes through a medium.
What happens to light when it scatters?
It is redirected as it passes through a medium
What happens when a bright light passes through a prism?
A rainbow
When is rainbow formed?
When sunlight passes through raindrops, the drops scatter the light which then appears to the onlooker to form a band of colors in the sky - or as we call it, a rainbow.
