Dr. Webb Brit Lit people, you know what I'm talking about for my title. Hehe.
So on Friday, my brother and his friend came over from Chicago for their spring break (so early T_T). The first thing I saw them do when I came home-other than pass out on the couches-was go outside and look at the rainbows. I think his friend never saw a rainbow before, or at least not as intense, because he went out and shot lots of pictures of it. It kind of reminded me of that Romantic poem we studied in Brit Lit how the author gets excited whenever he sees a rainbow. Now all I look forward to is seeing the rainbow and yelling out "REFRACTION!"
Not really, but in my head I shout it out. We just learned in our reading how rainbows are formed as light hits the droplets of waters, which allows a sort of prism effect. But it's not like we see an endless amount of rainbows, one for each droplet. Since the droplets provide a different medium from the air, refraction occurs. Unfortunately, there is also a total internal reflection due to light hitting the droplets at a certain angle, so each color of the spectrum of light starts refracting at different angles. That way, when we see the prism effect, only rays at a certain angle hit us instead of all of them so we see a giant rainbow (or two) instead of a mess of color.
Yay for rainbows! Boo for it drizzling right now so rainbows can't be seen!
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