Light works in many strange and mysterious ways. Most people recognize the basic properties of light that they see in front of them, like that light bends in water and reflects off of certain surfaces. However, few stop to consider explanations behind these phenomena. Few question light, or in fact, question any natural laws. An interesting feature of light that few truly wonder about is the beautiful reflections of colors in puddles of water with oil on them. The colors that oil creates when it lies on top of water seems like a fact of life to many people; they never question it. That said, questioning these simple facts can lead to a better understanding of the world around us, and teaches people to think critically of what surrounds them; learning about why oil makes rainbows on water can help instill thinking patterns that help people in all walks of life. Light reflecting off of oil on the surface of water functions in much the same way that light reflecting off of the front and back surfaces of glass does. When light goes reflects off of glass, depending on the thickness of the glass, a different percentage of the light reflects. This percentage can range from zero to sixteen percent. As the glass gets thicker and thicker, it becomes clear that the amount of light reflected works in a cycle. The amount of reflected light starts at zero percent and becomes greater and greater till it is at sixteen percent, and then it goes back down to zero percent. This cycle repeats
The mainstream ideologies of contemporary Australian society are represented and challenged by Nick Enright in his 1995 play ’Blackrock’ and ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow,' by Les Murray in 1969. Black rock is a play about a community of teenagers, intertwining with offending law, alcoholism and deaths.
For the Australian poet, Les Murray, a natural and peaceful life is, Driving Through Sawmill Towns, and spending An Evening Alone At Bunyah – a place without war or, The Burning Truck, that produces Blood. The cycle of life for Murray means "going home again from the cities of the world", where he can find, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow, without changing the "actual" world. Similarly, the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, wants people to get rid of The Mud Vision and, "figure in [their] own eyes for the eyes of the world". He believes nature and labour are a balanced symmetry of life. The world should be natural and peaceful where the Two Lorries, would never explode. Through their poems, both Murray and Heaney stop the readers in their tracks and lead them into a new territory. Their poems challenge the readers' perceptions by using the four elements of seeing, hearing, feeling and thinking to develop a theme of nature where they have desires for a truly natural and peaceful world.
“Why is the sky blue?” I asked my teacher while learning about the colors spectrum in sixth grade. My teacher shot down the question, shattering my curiosity at the same time.
A rainbow is caused by the reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. . It takes the form of a multicolored arc; Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the side of sky directly opposite the sun. A primary rainbow the arc shows red on the outer part and violet on the inner part.
Colors Dropped into water by Sanja Tosic appears to everyone as silky ink into smoke. What many may not see is the hidden message future creates within Sanja Tosic artwork for his album cover. Future incorporates his album title into his name because he is “DS2”. Future turns Tosic art into his face because of the cool color scheme she used that also represent many habits Future has. The blue smoke at the top of his face represents his strong narcotic background. Future is a heavy smoker and is constantly blowing clouds of smoke into the air. The liquid splashes at the bottom of his face portrays his codeine habit he will always make mention of in his music. Future mentions codeine in almost every song but in one song particular he states “I
Moreover, According to New England Aquarium (2016), when whales, dolphins and porpoises surface to breathe, oily water can cover their blowholes and enter their lungs, making breathing difficult. Oil can get into animals’ eyes, potentially causing
But lucky for the water molecule, because on one day, where the time was moving so slow, something came in quickly: the Sun. As soon as the dull stratus clouds cleared away, the bright rays shone onto the lake as if it was a spotlight to bring the underrated lake to life on the stage: the still park where the lake lie. The only exceptions
The use of light as water is an example of the "closeness or near-merging of two realms, two worlds" (Faris 172). The two realms that I speak of are the realm of reality and the realm of the imaginary. This element becomes obvious when the two brothers "filled the apartment to depth of two fathoms, dove like tame sharks under the furniture, including the beds, and salvaged from the bottom of the light things that had been lost in darkness for years" (159).
Gasoline has much lower denisty than water. What happens is the gasoline spreads out on top of the water in a very thin film. The film is partially reflective. Of the light that didn't reflect back, some of it reaches the boundary of the water, which is also partially reflective. This means there are actually two rays of light bouncing back towards your eye. These two rays are in different phases. As these phases interfere with each other, there will be constructive and destructive interference. When there is destructive interference, you will see a dark spot. When there is constructive interference, you will see a bright spot. These bright spots appear colourful because it reradiates a colour whose wavelength matches the thickness of the film
This method is implemented in RETINA Simulation 1 for consistency purposes. This is a simple but efficient method and is designed to avoid the shortcomings of other methods (For example returning negative kro). It is assumed that the oil saturation is a constant value and is equal to its average in a CV. It is also assumed that the water and gas phases are completely separated in each grid block, except that the water saturation in the gas zone is equal to the connate water saturation (Swco). The kro is calculated using the following equation:
There is also diffraction that absorbs an amount of energy, and produces a pigmentary color structure when a light wave passes through a tiny opening such as a slit or aperture. Thus, making the waves bend around behind the object creating a bright line where the shadow would ordinarily begin. Some waves bounce back into the path of the light over the original wave source creating an interference pattern around the edges of an object with a pattern of light and dark bands. Diffraction absorbs energy in each point on a wave front and can be considered as a source of a new
Everyone enjoys the site of a rainbow expected after it rains on a sunny day; however, although a rainbow formation is basic optics and geometry, it is highly misunderstood. Many understand the appearance due to dispersion of light, but most do not realize what that entitles. What most people do not expect when looking at a rainbow is that it moves as the observer moves (Cartwright, 1992). Shown in the photo to the left, is a rainbow taken along the countryside in Missoula, Montana. To further discuss how a rainbow works, one must understand the reflection-refraction theories that cause such a formation.
This study focused on the affects of crude oil in the soil of a growing Brassica rapa plant. Different variations of concentration of crude oil in the soil were used, as well as soil without crude oil, and a soil with an unknown concentration of crude oil. The study took place in a greenhouse in the science department of Birmingham-Southern college. The plants were monitored and measured for a total of 21 days. Over the span of the 21 days, obvious differences were noted in the growth of the different plants. In the end, plants with 20% crude oil or less were the most successful plants in growth—5% crude oil with the highest mean plant growth of 47.81 mm—leading to the conclusion that a little amount of crude oil in the soil, to an extent, was beneficial to the Brassica rapa plants’ growth.
Conversely, oil is seen consistently throughout Oil on Water. Although the characters see similar environmental effects, such as “the carcasses of the fish and crabs and water birds that floated on the deserted beaches of these tiny towns and villages every morning, killed by the oil” (193), they also see the oil itself. The oil’s presence and the industry surrounding it, such as “the ever-present pipelines crisscrossing the landscape”, allows the characters to learn more about oil, its manufacturing and effects. As these characters are able to see oil and understand it to a greater extent, they are able to use it to their advantage. Their ability to do this as inspires them to think about and sometimes attempt to work towards, as the militants do, a society and economy where they can reap the oil’s benefits. Once they realize the profits would not otherwise affect them, many people, including Rufus’s father, begin making their livings illegally off the oil. Although they are buying and selling oil illegally, “This is the only business booming in this town” (69). The people are forced to give up their traditional lifestyle, but cannot become fully reliant on the foreigners as the characters from Cities of Salt do. This difference in the portrayal of oil as either an obscure social force or as a physical object overpowering the land has an enormous influence on how both the characters and the reader view the oil. It changes from an entity altering their lives for
When the Sun's light is refracted on passing through tiny rain droplets falling in the air a Rainbow is formed. Rainbows only need light from the sun or the moon and a large amount of spherical raindrops to form in the atmosphere. The rainbows can be compared to mini prisms. The light is refracted ("bending of light as it passes from one medium to another") and it causes different wavelengths (or colors) of the white light to separate. Whether these wavelengths of light will pass through the raindrop or reflect depends on the angle the light strikes the back of the raindrop. If a wavelength of the light strikes the back of the raindrop at an angle less than 48 degree relative to the normal then the light will pass through the raindrop.