Quote: the scattering of sunlight by air is proportional to the fourth power of the frequency; why the sky is blue

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what can we say about the amount of … [when light passes through air]? … [p. 32-7] we shall simply calculate the total amount … the total energy scattered is proportional to the … sky, the brighter the sky is going to … [p. 32-8] if we take the case of light … than the frequency of the light that we … we find that the scattering is proportional to … by, say a factor of two, is sixteen … has about twice the frequency of the reddish … we look at the sky it looks that …   Google-1   Google-2

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