Physics · Human Eye and Colorful World
What happens when sunlight travels through the Earth's atmosphere, leading to the blue appearance of the sky?
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- 1The blue light passes through completely unscattered while the red light is scattered completely.
- 2Both blue and red colors of light are scattered equally by the atmospheric gases.
- 3Light of longer wavelengths (red) is scattered more compared to light of shorter wavelengths (blue).
- 4Light of shorter wavelengths (blue) is scattered more by atmospheric particles than light of longer wavelengths (red).✓
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Light of shorter wavelengths (blue) is scattered more by atmospheric particles than light of longer wavelengths (red).
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