Why Is A Rainbow Curved? | Newton's Apple

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  • Опубліковано 13 лют 2022
  • Ira Flatow and our physics friend Jack demonstrates how rainbows work and why they refract using light.
    Hosted by Ira Flatow, Newton's Apple was an American educational television program about science produced and developed by KTCA of Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Now @Twin Cities PBS ) and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from October 15, 1983, to January 3, 1998.
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  • @9spiderlegs
    @9spiderlegs Рік тому +65

    This is the best explanation I've seen! Thank you!

    • @BlackMcAllister
      @BlackMcAllister 11 місяців тому

      So the sun is a laserpointer?

    • @ktursts4088
      @ktursts4088 10 місяців тому

      definitely not

    • @tiortedrootsky
      @tiortedrootsky 6 місяців тому

      Its pretty good, but check out Phisics girl. She went a little farther and showed how the 42 degrees is happening because its the maximum angle, that the red light can escape the droplet in that direction. Red light that enters the droplet a little closer to its center has more acute angle of reflection, the light that enters farther from the center reaches maximum 42 degrees, and the light farther away gives more acute angle again. So more red light goes out close to 42 degrees.
      Also she showed how for different colours, this maximum angle is different, for purle its 40 degrees.

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 21 день тому

      Same here! I just watched a bunch of videos, and started to get it, but this one put it all together! Funny how an older video can be so much better! Loved all the models!

  • @RawDiscovery
    @RawDiscovery 5 місяців тому +4

    Excellent video. It pays to have physics educators all over the world

  • @andrewparker318
    @andrewparker318 4 місяці тому +5

    2:38 the Carl Sagan impression was spot on lmao

  • @kashifitifaqbhat571
    @kashifitifaqbhat571 11 місяців тому +2

    This video deserves all the likes on youtube

  • @Priya-mp8rs
    @Priya-mp8rs 11 місяців тому +6

    Best explanation👍👍👍🙂...only the video which can explain the curved shape of rainbow..

  • @mshravanrao8701
    @mshravanrao8701 2 роки тому +6

    Very nice explanation

  • @saswatsahoo9768
    @saswatsahoo9768 Рік тому +4

    Superb explanation

  • @SamM88
    @SamM88 Рік тому +3

    This was the best and easiest explanation!

  • @neutralmind1691
    @neutralmind1691 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for explaining

  • @sumukhshenoy
    @sumukhshenoy Рік тому +1

    Very well explained! Thank you 🙏🏻😊

  • @Aa-yk4qe
    @Aa-yk4qe 10 місяців тому

    Love the explaination

  • @Mr_Hassell
    @Mr_Hassell 11 днів тому

    This is cool, so cool.

  • @saftheartist6137
    @saftheartist6137 6 місяців тому

    Amazing explanation, thank you.

  • @littletips6927
    @littletips6927 4 місяці тому +1

    What a great explanation. Thanks ❤😊

  • @sologmr9007
    @sologmr9007 Рік тому +4

    "If you could get to the end of the 🌈 I can guarantee you a pot of gold"😆

  • @afnansikder3158
    @afnansikder3158 Рік тому

    Incredible!!!!

  • @ralu4816
    @ralu4816 Рік тому

    Love it !

  • @wangpaul1924
    @wangpaul1924 3 місяці тому

    thanks! so clearly explained

  • @user-hx5wx2yi3u
    @user-hx5wx2yi3u 10 місяців тому

    This video was very helpfull for concept of raindow

  • @mohamedismailmp9655
    @mohamedismailmp9655 10 місяців тому

    Super explanation

  • @mdsaquibansari481
    @mdsaquibansari481 2 роки тому

    Excellent

  • @prasungupta
    @prasungupta 9 місяців тому

    Super best explanation

  • @AddaOrion
    @AddaOrion Рік тому +4

    Best visual explanation I've ever seen. Thank you!

  • @lilzey_
    @lilzey_ Рік тому

    Omg literally the best explanation

  • @worldofscience8703
    @worldofscience8703 9 місяців тому

    Great detaile

  • @shihchelin9550
    @shihchelin9550 2 роки тому +1

    解釋得非常清楚 我終於知道為什麼彩虹是弧形

  • @AjayKumar-ci9zw
    @AjayKumar-ci9zw 11 місяців тому

    Very nice...

  • @asiangamer5685
    @asiangamer5685 10 місяців тому

    Very interesting

  • @emeraldaisle2927
    @emeraldaisle2927 Рік тому

    The voice of Science Friday!

  • @Antonio-jc3yq
    @Antonio-jc3yq Рік тому +2

    Por fin, una explicación científica, great great!

  • @RaviraushanD
    @RaviraushanD Рік тому

    Like, this masterpiece is the master of headmaster itself.💧

  • @tiortedrootsky
    @tiortedrootsky 6 місяців тому

    Would be cool to learn how to calculate dimentions of the rainbow and distance to it. Distance between red and purple droplets, inner and outer diameter of the whole thing.

  • @marvinlee7657
    @marvinlee7657 7 місяців тому

    BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sharan4624
    @sharan4624 Рік тому

    💥💥

  • @ke0nc
    @ke0nc 11 місяців тому +2

    Will they ever get these shows on to DVD?

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 21 день тому +1

      This was so good, and I grew up watching PBS, but don't know this show!

    • @ke0nc
      @ke0nc 21 день тому

      @@richardmahn7589 Technically it wasn't a PBS show and was not on the schedule. It's possible your station didn't carry it. The PBS stations who chose to buy it, usually aired it non-primetime on weekends.

  • @richardmahn7589
    @richardmahn7589 21 день тому

    Can somene who knows tell me what year this particular episode was broadcasted? Late 80s?

  • @priyabratadash381
    @priyabratadash381 7 місяців тому

    What they actually missed telling is the existence of Anti solar point about which Rainbow will trace its shape.... else rest of the explanation is fantastic.

  • @mohamedismailmp9655
    @mohamedismailmp9655 10 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @taecoreing5311
    @taecoreing5311 10 місяців тому

    i wonder now what would happen if i were ascending, what would the rainbow look like if i were still able to see it? i dont think it would dissappear since the curtain of droplets would start from the clouds...?

  • @cool.guy777
    @cool.guy777 Рік тому +4

    When a rainbow was a rainbow. If you know what I mean

  • @NorrisSaiyan
    @NorrisSaiyan 9 місяців тому

    42… the answer to life the universe and everything

  • @theredhanded5853
    @theredhanded5853 Рік тому

    haha😄 I am happy😁

  • @Domozorro
    @Domozorro 2 місяці тому

    3:33

  • @discussionwithunathi
    @discussionwithunathi Рік тому

    However, I would like to know the length and the height of a rainbow.

    • @richardmahn7589
      @richardmahn7589 21 день тому

      It all depends where the raindrops are, and where you are, and the angle of the sun light. You are the focal point.

  • @discussionwithunathi
    @discussionwithunathi Рік тому +1

    I have seen a circle rainbow, I think more than 5 times in my life. I have seen while I'm on ground zero

    • @TwinCitiesPBS
      @TwinCitiesPBS  Рік тому

      Yes! Those are often called Sun Dogs! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

  • @JoseGarcia-rt3fy
    @JoseGarcia-rt3fy 2 місяці тому +2

    The way it works indoors you need water, light and a mirror. The light needs to shine through the water reflect off the mirror and back on to the water as a rainbow except it won't be curved unless the mirror is curved. If your wondering what that curved mirror is outside its called the FIRMAMENT its in the bible.

  • @redditsucksyo
    @redditsucksyo Рік тому +6

    its because of the dome above.

  • @zevinbulka3213
    @zevinbulka3213 2 роки тому

    Did somebody say... double rainbow

  • @susettemclachlan8765
    @susettemclachlan8765 Місяць тому

    A rainbow is curved because it’s a reflection off the dome shaped FIRMament that God stretched over the earth like a tent . Like a prism

  • @stoatystoat174
    @stoatystoat174 10 місяців тому

    :)

  • @rosanna6371
    @rosanna6371 11 місяців тому +5

    Nope it doesn’t explain it at all

  • @wardaddy9910
    @wardaddy9910 11 місяців тому +1

    That doesn't work. You can see the bend of the entire rainbow. The way he explained it you would only see a little portion at a time.

  • @regalia_usa
    @regalia_usa 4 місяці тому

    Fantastic vulgarization!

  • @IAlwaysCare
    @IAlwaysCare 6 місяців тому

    I still don’t get it.

  • @brookerowe7365
    @brookerowe7365 23 дні тому

    Bahahaha people are actually believing!!😂 🧢

  • @gottogo8675
    @gottogo8675 11 місяців тому +12

    Nope . Earth is not a spinning ball and this is not science

    • @tarsmoraes6726
      @tarsmoraes6726 6 місяців тому +5

      Show your evidences man, explain the midnight sun in Antartica in your plane, explain the 6 months of day and night in North and in the south pole

    • @simmzmcnugga9829
      @simmzmcnugga9829 5 місяців тому

      You're right. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Light bends in an angular way even WITHIN a raindrop but somehow forms an impossible curve when light only travels in straight lines. Hogwash

    • @RawDiscovery
      @RawDiscovery 5 місяців тому +6

      @@simmzmcnugga9829light is very confusing. You would not believe how complicated any model of light can get. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t the truth. Trust me this is very simple compared to other topics like wave-particle duality

    • @ashutoshroy2304
      @ashutoshroy2304 5 місяців тому

      ​@@simmzmcnugga9829 the thing is when the light comes to us on a certain angle then only we are able to see the rainbow, only that angle arc is visible to us thats why it appers in this shape

  • @_MaxHeadroom_
    @_MaxHeadroom_ 24 дні тому

    Nature is WOKE 😡