Question

PLZ ANSWER ASAAP !!!!!!!!!!Kimberli and Sara Grace want to know how rainbows are formed so they both look up rainbows on the internet. Kimberli said she found that light waves come in different wavelengths and frequencies. The color of the light we see is dependent on wavelength. Sarah Grace said the website she found said that the raindrop refracts light and that is why we see the different colors. Who is right and why?

Neither is right. Rainbows are caused when light reflects off of the raindrops.


Kimberli is right because visible light comes in different wavelengths so they move at different speeds.


Sarah Grace is right because the light waves slow down as the enter the raindrop and light is refracted.


Both are right. Refraction causes the different wavelengths to become visible.

Answer 1

Both are right. Refraction causes the different wavelengths to become visible.

Step-by-step explanation:

Rainbows are seen as an arc with 7 colors clearly visible. The seven colors are, in order from outer most to inner most color, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.

The light coming from the Sun is made up of seven colors (VIBGYOR) each having its own wavelength and frequency. When this light passes through the tiny water droplets in the atmosphere three optical phenomenon are the reason behind the occurrence of the rainbow. These are: Refraction, reflection and dispersion.

Together they result in the white light splitting in seven different colors to show us the spectrum of light in the form of an arc called as rainbow.

Answer 2

Both are right. Refraction causes different wavelengths to become visible.

Step-by-step explanation:

When light waves are refracted through rain drops. Due to change in medium, the wave slows down which causes change in wavelength. As light waves with different wavelength in visible region have different colors. Continuous refraction through rain drops results in a Rainbow.