Question 12: Why does the Sun appear reddish early in the morning?
Answer:
In the early morning sun is at the farthest distance from the earth.
When the white light beam passed through the transparent glass tank having clear water, a converging lens is placed between them. After the glass tank a cardboard is placed having a circular hole in it, in which light ray passed on the screen by using another converging lens. Add 200g of sodium thiosulphate and 1- 2ml of concentrated sulphuric acid to 2L of clean water in the tank, then the sulphur particles begins to form in 2- 3 minutes. We can observe the light with the smaller wavelength, i.e, blue from the three sides of the glass tank will scatter and from the fourth side we will see the red light that pass into the circular hole, reaches to the human eyes.
As in the above paragraph mentioned, the sun colour appearance is described in the same way. The sun appears red in the early morning because when the light from the sun near the horizon passes through the atmospheric thick layers, blue light with shorter wavelength will scatter and the red light will reach to the eyes having longer wavelength.
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