Tuesday, 20 September 2016

optics - What makes a rainbow happen?



A rainbow is formed when a raindrop refracts light, but why then does the whole sky not become a huge rainbow when it rains? Would the light not be dispersed into ordinary white light? What causes it to look as if each end is nearly touching the ground?




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