WHY IS IT THAT LIGHT TRAVELS IN A STRAIGHT LINE, BUT A RAINBOW IS CURVED?
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Yes, light travels in a straight line. ... In the case of a rainbow, water droplets acts a prism scattering light into diffrent colors. We see a rainbow bend into a semicircle like shape because droplets in the air at a distance forms different angles with our eye.
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Yes, light travels in a straight line. And yes when you see rainbow it appears to be in circular shape.
This happens because of Dispersion of Light.When light passes through a prism, it strikes inside the wall of prism due to which light scatters. We see a pattern of colors named VIBGYOR ( Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red). These colors are seen because colors at diffrent wavelengths bends at a fix angle during reflection.
In the case of a rainbow, water droplets acts a prism scattering light into diffrent colors. We see a rainbow bend into a semicircle like shape because droplets in the air at a distance forms different angles with our eye. Due to which rainbow appears to be in semicircular shaped. Technically speaking rainbows are never meant to be semicircled, they are meant to be formed in a complete circular shape. Our view gets obstructed due to which wee see rainbow as semicircled.
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