Why does the sky sometimes appear whitish?

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Q: why does water appears to be cyan in colour?

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Q: 1. What will be the relationship of the angle of incidence with the angle of reflection for light…

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Q: If you look through a piece of very fine fabric at a tiny white light source, you will see a rainbow…

A: A very fine fabric

Q: Why the Sun and the surrounding sky appears red during Sunrise and Sunset?

A: Sunlight consists of different color with different wavelength which get scattered by the small…

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Q: Consider an opaque body capable of absorbing blue light and illuminated by (a) white light and (b)…

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Q: The law of reflection applies only to surfaces that are smooth on the scale of the wavelength of…

A: Ans is True

Dispersion of White Light

Snell’s law is a formula that gives a relation between the angle of incidence and angle of refraction and is given as: