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Scattering of light in the atmosphere

Find out how light scattering makes the sky blue and clouds white.

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http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/mch/sct.rxml

The Color of Light

What happens when coloured lights are added. An experiment shows the effects of adding red, green and blue lights. Main site has hundreds of similar useful links with a good search facility.

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http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/physics/op-3.html

Colored Shadows - Shadows are not all black and white

When two different-coloured lights shine on the same spot on a white screen, the light reflecting from that spot to your eyes is called an additive mixture because it contains the colours from both ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html

Scattering Concepts

Index page within Hyperphysics site that leads to all pages on scattering topics including Rutherford Scattering.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rutcon.html#c1

Scattering of light

How light is scattered in the atmosphere, explained simply.

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http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov/text/kids/Problem_Board/problems/light/sim2.html

Aurora's Northern Lights

Presentation of pictures, photographs, articles and links related to the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights.

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http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html

Compton Wavelength

The scattering of photons from charged particles is called Compton scattering after Arthur Compton who was the first to measure photon-electron scattering in 1911. When the incoming photon gives part ...

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