I've tried to do this for my friend, but he doesn't get it. Need some help please!
2007-04-10 06:57:37 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
It needs to be a good explanation that my dumb friend can understand!
2007-04-10 07:01:05 · update #1
When sunlight passes through rainfall, the droplets act as a prism, breaking up the white light into it's respective colors.
If your friend is that stupid, he needs more than one sentence to understand how light works. Try explaining the color spectrum and how white light is actually a combination of all colors, and the rainfall merely breaks it up. The 'bow' effect is a little more complicated, but basically it has to do with the angle the sunlight is coming in at and how it is refracted off the water. Reading a basic physics or meterology book can explain these things further.
2007-04-10 07:12:00 · answer #1 · answered by Todd B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why in One Sentence? - for a Dumb guy.
If your friend is Smart he won't need help to understand.
If he is dumb he will never understand.
For your Information Rainbow can be seen only in the Mornings OR Evenings. Never at Noon. From one side the Sun Rays act as Light Source and the Horizon becomes the "Canvas" trapping the Bow. It is an Illusion but can be Photographed.
2007-04-10 18:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by cnsone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the flood the water canopy was no longer in place so the sun reacts with the water vapor in the air to refract a rainbow in the sky just as God promised.
2007-04-10 14:01:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light refracts through the prizm (top of a water drop) which creates the pectrum of colors called a rainbow.
2007-04-10 14:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Condensation in the air causes sunlight to pass through the water vapor, which acts as a prism and breaks the light up into its 7 colored components, or the light spectrum.
2007-04-10 14:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by fizzygurrl1980 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rainbows are because OF GOD and him saying I will never flood the earth again And thats what a rainbow is.
You didnt say it couldn't be a run on sentence. HAHA!
;) - demented smily face
2007-04-10 14:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by Alayna H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When light hits rain drops, it is spread into the rainbow spectrum of colors and although we see only one color from one drop, since there are many drops, we see all the colors in the sky.
2007-04-10 14:02:03 · answer #7 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When light hits the tiny drops of water left in the air it splits into different colors.
2007-04-10 14:09:48 · answer #8 · answered by Capt Crasher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light refracts and seperates through water in the air.
2007-04-10 14:05:29 · answer #9 · answered by Ramen Junkie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raindrops scatter light passing through it causing us to see different parts of the white light and allowing us to see the individual colors of the light.
2007-04-10 14:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by meridocbrandybuck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋