One of the natural phenomena that I wondered about was the formation of rainbows. Almost every time rain ends or there is a mist of vapor in the streets, I tend to see rainbows. So I asked myself, how do rainbows form, why is that rainbows are always semicircular in shape, and why are they always arranged in the order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet?
My limited knowledge in physics came in handy to answer these questions. Accordingly, for the first question, white light just like the light that comes from the sun is actually made
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