Explain which statement below you believe to be correct. Statement A: White light is made up of the spectral?

Question

colours. The rainbow colours appear when light passes through water droplets.

Statement B: Water droplets add colour to white light to produce the rainbow.

Answer 1

A, Our eye perceives white light as a ratio of 3 colours. Red Green and Blue. So if we get equal amounts of all we see White, As light passes through a prism or a droplet of light it becomes refracted. The amount of refraction depends on the wavelength of light, so you get the white light split into a "spectrum" of the wavelengths and different colours along the point as different ratio's of red green and blue are there. This is why colours on computers are given as a RGB hex value. FFFFFF or 255 R 255 G and 255 B. Our eye percieves FF00FF as purple ( red + blue (1:0:1)) 7F00FF as bluey purple (roughly one red for two Blue (1:0:2))

Answer 2

Statement A is correct. The water droplets split the light into seven colors like a prism and the combined result of the water droplets is a mult-colored rainbow.

Answer 3

A, Our eye see's white light as a ratio of 3 colours. Red Green and Blue. So if we get equal amounts of all we see White, As light passes through a droplet of water it gets refracted. The same happens if you pass light through a prism(triangle).The amount of refraction depends on the wavelength of light, so you get the white light split into a spectrum of the wavelengths and different colours along the point as different ratio's of red green and blue. this is called the spectrum of light.

Answer 4

Statement A. The droplets act as a prism. Colour isn't in the droplets themselves.