optical effects light and color in nature. the blue sky oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air are...
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The Red Sunset The Sunset is red because the light passes through a great distance of air. Blue and other colors are scattered away… Only Red is left in a large quantity.TRANSCRIPT
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Optical Effects
Light and ColorIn Nature
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The Blue SkyOxygen and Nitrogen molecules in the Air are the
right size to scatter blue light best.Thus if you look anywhere but at the Sun you see
the scattered, Blue Light.
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The Red Sunset
The Sunset is red because the light passes through a great distance of air.
Blue and other colors are scattered away…Only Red is left in a large quantity.
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RainbowsDrops of falling rain can act as a prism refracting the
colors of white light in different directions.They send out the violet rays at 42° from the direction
the light came in.(copy diagram)
Rainbows occur when there is both rain and sun.If you want to see a rainbow stand with the sun
behind you and rain in front.Look directly away from the sun (at the anti-solar
point).The rainbow is a circle that is 42° away from the ASP.Usually part of the circle is below the horizon and so
all you see is a “bow”
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HalosHalos are an effect similar to Rainbows, but
caused by light refracting in ice crystalsThey form circles around the light source
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Depth in Water
Refraction can make things appear where they are not
In water they will appear less deep than they are.
(copy diagram)
This is also why a straight stick stuck in water appears bent.
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Total Internal Reflection
When light refracts because it speeds up the angle of refraction is larger than the angle of incidence
If the angle of incidence is large enough the light will be refracted back into the medium, it will be
“Totally internally reflected”Total Internal Reflection is used in optical
fibers to keep the light from leaving the fiber
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Mirages
An Inferior Mirage Occurs when there is a layer of hot air near the ground.Light from the sky and objects in it is totally internally
reflected back up And thus appear to be on the ground!
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A Superior MirageOccurs when there is a layer of cool air near the
ground.Light from the ground and objects on it is totally internally
reflected back down
and thus appear to be in
the sky!