Monday, July 9, 2018

visible light - How can sunlight be white , but pictures of the sun be orange?


I was thinking about elementary physics today and realised: We learned and proved that sunlight is white. But i don't understand why when you look at a picture of a satellite orbiting the sun , it(the sun) seems yellow-orrange. How could this be? It is like there is a red light bulb in the room but what you see is green.




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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