light
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Fun with Refraction
The sun was setting and passing through a glass prism on my door, and a tiny crystal apple just happened to be sitting nearby. Fun with physics!
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Q: Why is the sky orange sometimes?
A: The visible spectrum of light goes from the infrared to the ultraviolet. The waves of the infrared are stretched out and move slower than the compressed and faster-moving light on the ultraviolet side. When sunlight (which is slightly yellow) hits our atmosphere, it is scattered by the gases in the air. This compression of…