ASTR 111 Lecture 5: ASTR 111 5
7 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Wavelengths and light rainbows the various colors, angles, and opaqueness. there can be all red rainbows. Sunset and sunrise rays travel in long paths. From there, the atmosphere is lower air molecules and dust scatter them. Wavelengths are a range of visible light. Light is an electromagnetic wave that is generated by the motions of electrical charges it is how we perceive our world. Their color range is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. We can only see certain colors of light. Invisible forms of electromagnetic radiation are radio waves, ultraviolet, and infrared. In addition, the human eye cannot capably see radiation with wavelengths outside of the visible spectrum. This is why there are a numerous amount of different kinds of microscopes. A rainbow is formed when short blue and green wavelengths are scattered most strongly.
