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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Light and Optics

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Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with beautiful photographs in this website.

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Concepts
absorption, diffraction, light, refraction, sunset
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Additional Tags
atmospheric optic, colors of light, scattering light, rainbow, reflection, scattering of light
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
MS-PS4-2