Why does the sky sometimes appear whitish?

Q: Does the refraction of light make a swimming pool seem deeper or shallower?

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Q: How could you use spotlights at a play to change the performer's clothes suddenly from yellow to…

A: By changing the spotlight color to blue; we can change the performers clothes from yellow to black.…

Q: what is the resulting colour of equal intensities of red light and cyan light combined?

A: when we combine with green light with blue light of equal intensities, the resulting color…

Q: why does water appears to be cyan in colour?

A: Scattering is defined as the atoms or molecules which are exposed to light absorb light energy and…

Q: How does light react when it stuck transparent object?

A: When light stuck transparent material like air, water, clear glass. A maximum amount of light is…

Q: By what factor does the wavelength of light change when it passes from air to ice?

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Q: Look at your red , sunburned feet when they are under water. Why don’t they look as red as they are…

A: Ray of light coming from red wound will undergo scattering and refraction both at water surface.

Q: What color does red cloth appear to be when illuminated by sunlight?

A: It is known that the white light from the sun is a combination of seven different lights with…

Q: If the sky on certain planet in the solar system were normally orange, what color would sunsets be?

A: The sunset would be blue.If the sky of a certain planet is orange at noon, it means that the…

Q: What is Snell's law of refraction of light?

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Q: explain why the sky is blue and sunsets mostly red, orange and yellow.

A: The scattering of a beam of light by a medium containing small suspended particles is known as the…

Q: In which medium does light travel faster: thin air or dense air? How does this affect the period of…

A: The relation between the light’s speed (vmed) in medium, light’s speed (vvac) in a vacuum, and the…

Q: What is the effect on the color of a cloud when it contains an abundance of large droplets?

A: The sunlight scattering the droplets in absorb most of the light.

Q: Why does the arc of a rainbow appear with red on top andviolet on the bottom?

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Q: Why can't flat lenses focus light?

A: Flat lens have infinite radius of curvature. Hence, their focal length is also infinite.

Q: Volcanic emissions spew fine ashes in the air that scatter red light. What colour does a full Moon…

A: If the light scattered by the fine ashes thrown out of the volcanic emissions are red; then the full…

Q: what colour light is transmitted through a piece of red glass?

A: When white light passes through the piece of red glass. Green and blue light is absorbed by the…

Q: Why are sunsets reddish orange on color?

A: Introduction: The lights coming from the sun to the earth get scattered by the particles present in…

Q: How rainbow is formed?

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Q: What color light is transmitted through a piece of red glass?

A: When an electromagnetic waves incident on an object that composes all the seven color then all the…

Q: Can you see a rainbow in the west when the sun is directly overhead? Give a reason for your answer.

A: A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of…

Q: When you look at a shirt and it is blue…. WHY IS IT BLUE? What is being absorbed and what is being…

A: What colour our eye see is the reflected colour which an object reflects. Rest of the colours are…

Q: Why does water appear cyan?

A: Water molecule absorbs red light very strongly, so when red light is subtracted from the white light…

Q: Will any light leave the top surface of the prism?

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Q: Why does the pupil of eye appear black?

A: The pupil is situated at the center of the iris of the eye. Pupil appears black because the entered…

Q: Why does smoke from campfire look blue against trees near the ground but yellow against the sky?

A: We see the scattered light from the smoke which is blue in color near the ground, while in the sky,…

Q: How would the whiteness of snow appear if Earth's atmosphere were several times denser?

A: According to the Rayleigh scattering, the dispersion is greater at lower wavelengths (higher…

Q: Why does the Sun look reddish at sunrise and sunset but not at noon?

A: The sun appears reddish at sunrise and sunset due to the scattering of light due the small air…

Q: Why does a rainbow exist only in a narrow band?

A: The rainbow is caused by the refraction of light through the water droplets. The angle of refraction…

Q: Theoretically, when magenta paper is illuminated with cyan light, the paper will appear......   a.…

A: Cyan is the combination of the light green and blue.

Q: Why does light bend when it passes thru different materials?

A: According to question: Light bends only in a medium, i.e light bends as a consequence of interacting…

Q: Several raisins are placed in a bowl of water, after 24 hours, why does the water changes color?

A: Raisins swell when they are soaked in water. All of this is due to the osmosis process.

Q: Why the Sun and the surrounding sky appears red during Sunrise and Sunset?

A: Sunlight consists of different color with different wavelength which get scattered by the small…

Q: what is evidence that white light is composite of seven colours?

A: Refraction is the bending of the light's direction when it passes from one medium to the other. The…

Q: How could you use the spotlights at a play to change the performers’ clothes suddenly from yellow to…

A: The performer is wearing yellow clothes, and we need to change the color to black, using spotlight.

Q: Why do blood of injured deep sea divers look greenish-black in underwater photographs taken with…

A: Water has a property to absorb red color light under deep sea and when we capture the photo of…

Q: Is it scattering or reflection that accounts for whiteness of a cloud?

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Q: Why can a prism split up visible light?

A: Phenomenon of light bending when it is incident from a denser medium to a lighter medium or vice…

Q: When dishes are not properly rinsed after washing, different colors are reflected from their…

A: When the dishes are not washed properly, the soap layer is left on the surface of the dishes. The…

Dispersion of White Light

Snell’s law is a formula that gives a relation between the angle of incidence and angle of refraction and is given as: