Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles has a neat little post up about rainbows.
And you thought geometry could never come in handy.
I think it's pretty neat that the angle made by two hands is nearly scale-invariant. I wonder what that angle is for chimpanzees or other apes whose arms are longer relative to their bodies than human arms are?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Using geometry to find a rainbow
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