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- From: melin@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de (S. Melin)
- Subject: Re: Noah's formation: The rainbow
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany
- References: <1992Jul20.091322.13842@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1992Jul20.170623@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> <14flcvINNi08@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Sender: melin@hlrz24 (S. Melin)
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:27:37 GMT
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- In article <14flcvINNi08@agate.berkeley.edu>, ted@physics1 (Emory F. Bunn) writes:
- [stuff deleted]
- |> >
- |> >The light is refracted in the raindrops, the inner rainbow is
- |> >generated by one refraction in the drop, the second one by
- |> **********
- |> >two refractions. With this information you might draw a
- |> ***********
- |> >little sketch, this should clarify everything:
- |> >Draw two spheres, draw the white light beams parallel, and
- |> >reflect the beam once in one drop and twice in the other one.
- |> >Make sure that the resulting beams "meet in one eye".
- |> >
- |>
- |> The word "refraction" should be "reflection" in the two places marked.
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- You're absolutely right here, my fault... But a few lines later it should
- have been clear what I meant.
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- Regards
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- Stephan Melin
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