The Colors of the Rain

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The rainbow will occur where the angle φ is maximum with respect to the angle β. Therefore, from calculus, we can set dφ/ dβ = 0, and solve for β, which yields But in every case, two elements were essential for that characteristic burst of colour, water vapour or droplets and sunlight. Finally, Isaac Newton proved that white light is made up of a spectrum of colours by splitting light with a prism. His discovery, together with the work of others before him, finally explained how rainbows form. The shape of a rainbow also resembles the bow of an archer. Hindu culture teaches that the god Indra uses his rainbow bow to shoot arrows of lightning.

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Thinking of taking an AP science exam?Then you'll definitely want to sneak a peek at our expert study guides for AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, and AP Chemistry.The idea that there are seven colours in the rainbow still lasts to this day. At a glance, you might think this to be true, but closer inspection of a rainbow shows that there are far more than just seven individual hues. Red is the color at the top of the rainbow, it has the longest wavelength. It’s linked to vitality, passion and lust. It’s a physical and high energy color that can sometimes turn to anger and aggression. Red is the color of the Angel Uriel, who represents Energy. Light enters a water droplet, bending as it slows down a bit going from air to denser water. The light reflects off the inside of the droplet, separating into its component wavelengths—or colors. When it exits the droplet, it makes a rainbow. Why the colors? The light of a primary rainbow arc is 96% polarised tangential to the arc. [6] The light of the second arc is 90% polarised.

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A rainbow is an optical illusion—it does not actually exist in a specific spot in the sky. The appearance of a rainbow depends on where you're standing and where the sun (or other source of light) is shining. max = arccos ⁡ ( 2 − 1 + n 2 3 n ) ≈ 40.2 ∘ . {\displaystyle \beta _{\text{max}}=\arccos \left({\frac {2{\sqrt {-1+n Newton, who admitted his eyes were not very critical in distinguishing colours, [10] originally (1672) divided the spectrum into five main colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Later he included orange and indigo, giving seven main colours by analogy to the number of notes in a musical scale. [7] [b] [11] Newton chose to divide the visible spectrum into seven colours out of a belief derived from the beliefs of the ancient Greek sophists, who thought there was a connection between the colours, the musical notes, the known objects in the Solar System, and the days of the week. [12] [13] [14] Scholars have noted that what Newton regarded at the time as "blue" would today be regarded as cyan, and what Newton called "indigo" would today be considered blue. [8] [9] [15] Newton's first colours A fogbow is formed in much the same way as a primary rainbow. Light in a fogbow is refracted and reflected by fog (water droplets suspended in air). A fogbow seen in the clouds is called a cloudbow. From a very early age, we're taught how to remember the colours of the rainbow using what is known as a mnemonic.The colours of the rainbow are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Who discovered the rainbow? Indigo is a mix of dark blue and purple, it’s the color of the sky at midnight. It encourages deep thinking, and a deeper more complex understanding of ourselves. Red (the longest wavelength at around 780 nm) through to Violet (the shortest wavelength in the sequence at 380 nm). A twinned rainbow is two distinct rainbows produced from a single endpoint. Twinned rainbows are the result of light hitting an air mass with different sizes and shapes of water droplets—usually a raincloud with different sizes and shapes of raindrops.

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Because the water droplets in fog are much smaller than raindrops, fogbows have much fainter colors than rainbows. In fact, some fogbows have few detectable colors at all and appear mostly white, with a reddish tinge on their outer edge and a bluish tinge on their inner edge. Violet is created from the colors blue and red. It’s basically a lighter tint or shade of purple, and it shares many of the same traits. It’s an attractive, feminine and mysterious color. Orange is a mix of yellow and red, it’s energetic like red. However, it also encourages mental energy as well as physical. Red has the longest wavelength of visible light, about 650 nanometers. It usually appears on the outer part of a rainbow's arch. Violet has the shortest wavelength (about 400 nanometers) and it usually appears on the inner arch of the rainbow.

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Viewers on the ground can only see the light reflected by raindrops above the horizon. Because each person's horizon is a little different, no one actually sees a full rainbow from the ground. In fact, no one sees the same rainbow—each person has a different antisolar point, each person has a different horizon. Someone who appears below or near the "end" of a rainbow to one viewer will see another rainbow, extending from his or her own horizon. The sky inside a primary rainbow is brighter than the sky outside of the bow. This is because each raindrop is a sphere and it scatters light over an entire circular disc in the sky. The radius of the disc depends on the wavelength of light, with red light being scattered over a larger angle than blue light. Over most of the disc, scattered light at all wavelengths overlaps, resulting in white light which brightens the sky. At the edge, the wavelength dependence of the scattering gives rise to the rainbow. [5]

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A rainbow requires water droplets to be floating in the air. That’s why we see them right after it rains. The Sun must be behind you and the clouds cleared away from the Sun for the rainbow to appear. Why is a rainbow a bow—or arc? Sometimes, a viewer may see a "double rainbow." In this phenomenon, a faint, secondary rainbow appears above the primary one. This is a phrase that takes the first letter of each colour and makes up a new word which, in turn, creates a phrase that's easy to remember.These colors make up the visible (light) spectrum; it's the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes can see. A rainbow is not a pure spectrum. It is actually made up of a myriad of individual spectral colours that have overlapped and mixed. Rainbows also have meaning and significance in the bible. A rainbow was said to have appeared in the story of Noah’s Ark, appearing after the great flood. Certain colors of the rainbow are also linked to angels. A reflected rainbow appears directly on the surface of a body of water. A reflected rainbow is created by rays of light reflected by the water surface, after the rays have have passed through water droplets. Reflected rainbows to not appear to form a circle with a primary rainbow, although their endpoints seem to meet in an almond-shaped formation.