exercise 6
On a normally sunny day with a blue sky, what percentage of the light comes from the blue sky?
20
When you look at a rainbow, compared to the sky outside the rainbow, the sky inside the rainbow looks
lighter
The preferential scattering of blue light causes the sky to be blue and the sunsets red. If the scattering by air molecules anddust was independent of wavelength (no preferential scattering) the color of the sky would be
white
If you observe a white-light flashlight by looking directly through a water-filled container that is milky colored with milk droplets, the flashlight color is
yellow-red
If red (instead of blue) light was preferentially scattered, the sunsets would appear
blue
The presence of colors in a rainbow shows the inner ring is
blue
The sunsets appear red because of preferential scattering of
blue
When you look at a rainbow, compared to the sky inside the rainbow, the sky outside the rainbow appears
darker
The color sequence (red -> blue) of a rainbow would change if
none of the above
The observer's shadow is the center of the arc of the
rainbow
