Channel: thecuriousengineer

Category: Education

Tags: skywavelengthblue skyblue oceanswhite cloudscloudsrayleigh scatteringsunsetred sunsetjohn strutviolet skywhy sky is bluecan we see air

Description: Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/omkarscomics This is one of those questions which four year old's ask all the time. Also i would like to point out that there are plenty of other videos which address this question. However many of those fail to explain it in detail. This video covers many of those small details. I have been reading a lot about it. And while i was at it, many more questions came into picture, like why is the sun yellow, why are clouds white, why are oceans blue, etc. I have tried to cover up as much as possible in this video. I'll include all useful links below. This video is in collaboration with Untamed Science. Check out their channel at youtube.com/user/UntamedScience Special thanks to Rob and Haley. These are the few pages in my browser history.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum physicsclassroom.com/class/light/u12l2a.cfm answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006030800047 exploratorium.edu/snacks/blue_sky scientopia.org/blogs/guestblog/2011/10/03/the-sky-is-blue-and-violet-is-ticked todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/05/why-the-sky-is-blue betterthandiamond.com/amora/VisibleSpectrum.gif physicsclassroom.com/class/light/u12l2f.cfm sci.odu.edu/sci/Scire/05Edition/whitecloud.html nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography-boundary/remote-sensing/fundamentals/1491 canon.com/technology/s_labo/light/001/01.html solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.html todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/03/the-sun-is-white-not-yellow ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/mch/sct.rxml woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-does-the-ocean-look-blue-because-it-reflects-the-sky Solar Spectrum and Sensitivity Spectrum whyistheskyblue.co/purple.php Blue Sky Footage youtube.com/watch?v=0_jNjpVxUt0 NASA Solar Images sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data John Strutt Image micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/antiqueimages/rayleigh.jpg Brightly Fancy Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100883 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0