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Article #1268Re: Noah's formation: The rainbow
From: S. Melin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:27
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:27
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In article <14flcvINNi08@agate.berkeley.edu>, ted@physics1 (Emory F. Bunn) writes: [stuff deleted] |> > |> >The light is refracted in the raindrops, the inner rainbow is |> >generated by one refraction in the drop, the second one by |> ********** |> >two refractions. With this information you might draw a |> *********** |> >little sketch, this should clarify everything: |> >Draw two spheres, draw the white light beams parallel, and |> >reflect the beam once in one drop and twice in the other one. |> >Make sure that the resulting beams "meet in one eye". |> > |> |> The word "refraction" should be "reflection" in the two places marked. You're absolutely right here, my fault... But a few lines later it should have been clear what I meant. Regards Stephan Melin melin@hlrsun.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de || hkf418@djukfa11.bitnet
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hlrz24!melin From: melin@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de (S. Melin) Subject: Re: Noah's formation: The rainbow Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany References: <1992Jul20.091322.13842@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Jul20.170623@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> <14flcvINNi08@agate.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <1992Jul21.102737@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> Sender: melin@hlrz24 (S. Melin) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:27:37 GMT X-Posted-From: hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu Lines: 25