what type of energy does a rainbow use ? NEED HELP FOR SCIENCE ASSIGNMENT?

Question

i need to know what type of energy a rainbow uses, whats the source of the energy and whats the receiver of the energy.

also how is the energy efficiently transmitted anndd
if there are any energy transformations.
PLEASE HELP!!

Answer 1

Rainbows use light-energy. The sun is typically the source. Water droplets are the receiver. The energy is transmitted across space and time from the sun, as white light, and is refracted in the water to form a spectrum of visible wavelengths.

Answer 2

Rainbows use light energy from the sun

When light strikes small water droplets that are suspended in the air, from certain angles a rainbow will appear.

The water droplets act as a prism, breaking the light energy from the sun into its (visible) components.

It is this energy that we see as a rainbow.

That is why one sees a rainbow sometimes after it rains.

As an interesting aside, there's something called a sun-dog.

This is produced in a similar manner, but high up in the atmosphere...

Thin clouds break up the suns energy into the colors of the spectrum, though the colors are sometimes hard to see.

Because its happening so high up, the sun-dog appears as a faint ring around the sun.

Look for it from time to time, eventually you will see one...

Good luck!

I should add that the suns energy is recieved by the atmosphere, water droplets, and our eyes...

The light energy warms the droplets and the air, fills it with light & heat, and eventually, warms us & produces the rainbow that we may enjoy... Our eyes focus & absorb that component of the sun's light energy.

The suns energy as it strikes the earth is primarily in the form of electromagnetic.

There are many frequencies...

The ones we are concerned about here are in the visible range.

When light strikes matter including water, gases, or solids, some of the energy is transformed into heat energy. This occurs through the stimulation of matter on the molecular level, and it produces infrared radiation, convection & conduction, carrying the heat through the atmosphere and down to the earth....

The water droplets in a rainbow also absorb some of the light energy and transform some of it into forms of heat as well...

'Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed into another form' ...In that way, the conservation, (though not the transmission) of energy is perfectly efficient.

Answer 3

A rainbow is merely an optical phenomenon. As sunlight passes through water particles the particles separate the light into color bands according to the respective lengths of the energy waves. No energy is used the Rainbow itself; it merely allows us to see energy at work. The process is called refraction.

Answer 4

Rainbows neither use nor create energy.

Rainbows are created by light waves being refracted by water vapor in the atmosphere.

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Answer 5

transverse waves that transfer radiation or energy are called electromagnetic waves. These waves are created by electrically charged particles that move. The terms “electromagnetic waves” and “electromagnetic radiation” are used interchangeably because the waves carry the sun’s radiation, which is composed of electrically charged particles.

Answer 6

Im pretty sure it is Light energy...googd luck!