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EACH COLOURED RAY MAKES A DEFINITE ANGLE WITH THE LINE OF VISION.ALL WATER DROPLETSAPPEARING IN THE SAME COLOUR MAKE THE SAME ANGLE WITH THE LINE OF VISION IS IT YHE SAME RAINBOW THAT ONE SEE IS SEEN BY THE OTHER SINCE THE LINE OF VISION OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE BE DIFFERENT?
The light that is refracted must leave the raindrop at precisely 42 degrees from the incoming rays. This is why rainbows can only be seen from certain spots and it is also why rainbows can only occur during certain times of the day. What is perhaps even more fascinating about the science of rainbows is that only one color is actually visible from any one raindrop at a time. And that color in turn depends on the angle from which you are looking at the rainbow.Since a rainbows is entirely dependent on the angle of the raindrops, the position of the sun, and the spot from which the rainbow is being observed, although you and another person may be looking at the same rainbow you will not be seeing it in exactly the same way.


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