PURPOSE: Illustrate rays in formation of a rainbow.
DESCRIPTION: A styrofoam ball represents a raindrop, with wooden dowels representing the incoming white light ray and the exiting red and blue rays for the first order rainbow. This shows why the red and blue rays from the same raindrop cannot be seen by the same person.
SUGGESTIONS:
REFERENCES: (PIRA 6A46.20)
EQUIPMENT: Rainbow styrofoam ball model.
SETUP TIME: None.
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