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Natural Sciences · Intermediate
Rainbows & Sky Optics
The sky is a giant optics laboratory. Trace light through raindrops to discover why rainbows sit exactly 42° from the shadow of your head, why double rainbows are reversed, how ice crystals paint rings around the Sun, why hot roads seem to shimmer with water, why the sky is blue and sunsets red, and how a ring around the Moon reveals the size of cloud droplets.
7 lessons~35 min0/7 complete
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1
Rainbows
Light inside raindrops.
2
Ice and Air
Halos and mirages.
3
Scattering and Diffraction
Blue skies and rings around the Moon.