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Educational Media Awareness Campaign/Physics/POTD 9

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The Formation of a Rainbow
Diagram showing how primary and secondary rainbows are formed. Legend:

1. Spherical droplet
2. Places where internal reflection of the light occurs
3. Primary rainbow
4. Places where refraction of the light occurs
5. Secondary rainbow
6. Incoming beams of white light
7. Path of light contributing to primary rainbow
8. Path of light contributing to secondary rainbow
9. Observer
10. Region forming the primary rainbow
11. Region forming the secondary raimbow
12. Zone in the atmosphere holding countless tiny spherical droplets.
 
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Guide to rainbow media - Prism images - Light images
Mechanics images - Electromagnetism images - Optics images - Atomic physics images
Images relating to physics in general
This image is a part of the Educational Media Awareness Campaign, raising awareness among educators about the availability and usage of millions of free internet media in education.
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