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    Light travels from the sun in waves of different colors. When it hits particles in the atmosphere like nitrogen and oxygen, blue light scatters more than red light, which is why the sky appears blue. During sunrises and sunsets, light must pass through more atmosphere, so the blue light is filtered out and we see reds and oranges. A rainbow forms when sunlight enters water droplets and is refracted and reflected inside, separating light into colors in an arc.

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    Properties of Light

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    Light travels from the sun in waves of different colors. When it hits particles in the atmosphere like nitrogen and oxygen, blue light scatters more than red light, which is why the sky appears blue. During sunrises and sunsets, light must pass through more atmosphere, so the blue light is filtered out and we see reds and oranges. A rainbow forms when sunlight enters water droplets and is refracted and reflected inside, separating light into colors in an arc.

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    Light travels from the sun in waves of different colors. When it hits particles in the atmosphere like nitrogen and oxygen, blue light scatters more than red light, which is why the sky appears blue. During sunrises and sunsets, light must pass through more atmosphere, so the blue light is filtered out and we see reds and oranges. A rainbow forms when sunlight enters water droplets and is refracted and reflected inside, separating light into colors in an arc.

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    Properties of Light

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    Light travels from the sun in waves of different colors. When it hits particles in the atmosphere like nitrogen and oxygen, blue light scatters more than red light, which is why the sky appears blue. During sunrises and sunsets, light must pass through more atmosphere, so the blue light is filtered out and we see reds and oranges. A rainbow forms when sunlight enters water droplets and is refracted and reflected inside, separating light into colors in an arc.

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    THE UNIVERSE AND LIGHT

    WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?


    Why Is The Sunset Red?
    How Is Rainbow Formed?
    LIGHT

    Light travels from the Sun and through the


    atmosphere in invisible waves. Visible light
    that looks white to us, is actually made up of
    many different colors of different wavelengths.
    When light comes from the Sun to the earth, it comes in a straight
    line and this contains all of the colors of the spectrum.
    white light visible light spectrum

    Glass prism
    DUAL NATURE OF LIGHT

    The concept of wave-particle duality of light


    says that light possesses both wave and
    particle properties, even though we cannot
    observe both at the same time.
    Reflection - occurs when the waves encounter a surface or other boundary that does not
    absorb the energy of the radiation and bounces the waves away from the surface
    Refraction - the bending of light as it passes from another medium
    Diffraction - the spreading of waves around obstacles
    LIGHT AS A WAVE
    WHAT IS A WAVE?
    A wave can be described as a disturbance that travels through a medium
    from one location to another location.
    A medium is a substance or material that carries the wave.

    A Wave Transports Energy and Not Matter


    Waves are said to be an energy transport phenomenon. As a disturbance moves through a
    medium from one particle to its adjacent particle, energy is being transported from one
    end of the medium to the other.

    TRANSVERSE WAVE LONGITUDINAL WAVE


    WAVELENGTH OF A WAVE
    Wave properties:

     (lambda) – a symbol used for


    wavelength.

    T (period) – time for one complete


    wave. Its SI unit is in second.

    f (frequency) – the number of


    complete waves in one second. The
    SI unit for frequency is Hz (Hertz)

    A (amplitude) - the maximum


    displacement or distance moved by a
    point on a vibrating body or wave
    measured from its equilibrium
    position
    Short and Long Wavelengths
    ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

    There are actually a lot more colors but humans can't actually see them. There are
    specialized equipment that scientists use to actually see these colors and these help
    scientists in various scientific studies.
    By the time that light reaches the atmosphere of Earth it may encounter water
    molecules, dust or ice since the light waves are incredibly small, smaller than one
    millionth of a meter.
    The light waves will interact with even the tiniest gas molecules in the air then
    they begin to bounce off the parts and this bouncing process is called scattering.
    Where they go depends how large the molecule was compared to the
    wavelength size and small particles compared to their wavelength will scratch a
    blue light more strongly than red light since the Earth's atmosphere is mainly
    made up of oxygen and nitrogen.
    Blues will scatter sunlight in more directions than the red and this creates the blue sky that
    we see the red light waves have the least amount of scattering and this is due to the
    interaction with the gas molecules.
    When you see a sunrise or a sunset the sunlight is actually travelling in a longer path through
    the atmosphere and then finally to your eyes where you can see it.

    The blue light has almost been completely removed but that still leaves the red and yellow
    light this is why when you see a sunset you're actually seeing the colors of reds, oranges and
    yellows.
    If there are any clouds in the sky they will reflect these colors. The colors are being
    reflected from the water and the ice particles in the clouds and the molecules also absorb
    the wavelength colors as well.
    So when you look up at a sunset you just realized that there's no more blue left and the Sun
    has to go for a lot of atmosphere to actually show off the new colors of red orange and
    yellow.
    ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

    There are actually a lot more colors but humans can't actually see them. There are
    specialized equipment that scientists use to actually see these colors and these
    help scientists in various scientific studies.
    In conclusion you can probably say that the sky is not blue or red you can actually say it's
    white until it actually hits something within the atmosphere that changes its color.

    The Rayleigh Scattering explains these blue skies and sunsets through interacting of
    particles in the atmosphere.
    A rainbow is basically a light that's been split up into the different colors of the
    spectrum refracted out of millions of tiny droplets of water.

    We think of rainbows as an arc


    because we only see the half that's
    above the horizon.
    If we are high enough, we could see that rainbows are a full circle.
    The perfect conditions
    for a rainbow are;

    WATER
    SUNLIGHT DROPLETS
    Sunlight in its purest form straight from the Sun is white light. When a ray of that light
    reaches a water droplet a whole lot of action takes place inside.
    As sunlight enters the water droplet it starts to slow down or bend slightly and change
    direction, this is what we call refraction.
    The light bounces off the back
    of the droplet and it's refracted
    again as it exits.

    Refraction ends up separating the light into all of the colors of the
    spectrum. These colors are what we see in the sky as a rainbow.
    Each color represents a different wavelength of light and that wavelength is what
    determines where the color appears in the rainbow. Red has the longest wavelength and
    it gets refracted the least. Red always appears on the outside of the rainbow the largest
    arc. Violet is the shortest wavelength, It gets refracted the most and with that reflection
    it ends up always being the smallest arch of the rainbow

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