大海的颜色（The color of the sea）.docVIP

大海的颜色（The color of the sea） Unless there is interference, light travels in straight line. When light propagates in the air, will inevitably encounter gas molecules in the air and other particles. These particles have absorption, reflection and scattering physical effect on the light, it is these physical interaction makes the sky become blue sunny days. The correct explanation of why the sky is blue in 1859. Scientists first discovered Tador blue than red light scattering is much stronger, this is the Tador effect. A few years later, a more detailed study on the Rayleigh scientists of this phenomenon, he found 4 Fang Cheng inverse scattering intensity and wavelength. Later, more and more scientists call this phenomenon Rayleigh scattering. The Rayleigh scattering are easy to verify by following a small experiment (Fig. 2): a cup filled with water, and then to the cup with a few drops of milk, with a flashlight as the light source, from the side of the cup irradiation, seen from the other side of the cup is red, and see from the vertical in the direction of the light is blue (in the dark effect more obvious). At that time, Tyndall and Rayleigh that blue sky is due to small dust particles and water droplets in the air, suspended particles and the milk small dust particles and water droplets is similar to water. Even today, many people also think so. The fact is not the case, if the sky is completely due to the small dust particles and water droplets, so the color of the sky with the humidity and the change in the color of the sky with humidity change is very small, unless it rains or cloudy. Later scientists speculate enough to use nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air to explain the Tyndall effect in the sky . This speculation was eventually confirmed by Einstein, he made a detailed calculation of the scattering effect, and the calculation results are in good agreement with experiment. What we see is the blue sky as the sun air molecules and other particles of inc