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Blue
Sky shows why the sky is blue. This is a phenomenon called
Rayleigh scattering. A clear tube is mounted in
front of a light source with the light shining into the end
of the tube. The light scattered by the tube looks blue near
the projector and gets progressively yellower further down
the tube. A very orange sun emerges from the tube
and is projected onto a screen on the side of the exhibit.
A polarizing filter is attached to the exhibit table so the
user can experiment with the polarized properties of scattered
light.
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