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NDA 2025
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NDA
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2025
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General Ability
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General Science

NDA 2025 · General Ability · General Science

What happens when the sunlight travels through the Earth's...

What happens when the sunlight travels through the Earth's atmosphere?

Options

  1. AThe blue colour is scattered more compared to the red colour
  2. BThe red colour is scattered more compared to the blue colour
  3. CBoth the blue and the red colours are scattered equally
  4. DThe blue colour is not scattered but the red colour is scattered the most

Correct answer

A. The blue colour is scattered more compared to the red colour

Step-by-step solution

According to Rayleigh scattering, the intensity of scattered light is inversely proportional to the fourth power of its wavelength, given by I∝1λ4I \propto \dfrac{1}{\lambda^4}.

Since the wavelength of blue light is shorter than the wavelength of red light (λblue<λred\lambda_{\text{blue}} < \lambda_{\text{red}}), blue light is scattered much more strongly by the molecules in the Earth's atmosphere compared to red light.

Therefore, the blue colour is scattered more compared to the red colour.

Answer: The blue colour is scattered more compared to the red colour
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