It's all about rainbows...

Physics is a great subject because it applies to everything. Including such magical things as unicorns and rainbows... Well maybe not unicorns, but you can physics the hell out of a rainbow.

In my little world rainbows have become common place parlence because of one video in particular.



This guy is high on life. In fact, he has the correct response when looking at a rainbow. He loses his sh*t. The video is so inspiring; others have created derivatives of this video





There are improper responses to seeing a rainbow; like this one



seeing this makes me want to go out to the world and shake someone teach them about rainbows. I've been mulling it over in my head the past few days.

Class would begin with a picture of an oily puddle. One with lots of colours. The class would discuss where they have seen this phenomena and maybe start to think about how the colours appear. Is it the colour of oil, what happens to light that hits it etc. Maybe go into the lab and try out a few experiments with the depth of oil (or even vary the substance) versus the colour it produces.

Next we would watch the crazy ladies response to the rainbow in her sprinkler system. We would then discuss if she has a point or not. From there we would could go into index of refraction and basic geometic optics.

Ciao, JaM's