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This programme asks what is a rainbow and how is it caused?
This programme asks what is a rainbow and how is it caused?
| Module code and title: | MU120, Open mathematics |
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| Item code: | MU120; 04 |
| Published: | 1996 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:56 |
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| Producer: | Michael Peet |
| Contributor: | Francesca Hunt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Mathematical models of rainbow formation |
| Subject terms: | Meteorological optics; Optics--Mathematics; Rainbows |
| Footage description: | Footage - Views of different rainbows. Still pictures of different rainbows on sky background. (0'22"-1'51") - Monk pouring water into a flask. Rainbow over Grand Canyon. Cave paintings of rainbows (1'52"-2'25) - Rainbow over Potala palace, Tibet. Pictures of rainbows. Rain falling. Rainbow over Niagara Falls (2'26"-3'10") - Silhouette of indian in a canoe. View of falls. Richard Hili talking. Sepia picture of woman in a boat. View of falls. Sepia picture of women in a boat. Footage of "Maids in the mist" boats at Niagara fall (3'11"-4'13") - Oil platform. Fire brigade hoses. Rainbow. Fountain at Queens court Milton Keynes. Pictures of different rainbows. Prism refracting light on a hand (4'14"-6'08") - 7 slides showing rainbows. "Landscape with a rainbow" by Rubens. Double rainbows. View of Alexander's dark band with umbrella in foreground (6'09"-7'39") - View of a rainbow. Sepia picture of woman in a boat. Stills of different rainbows. Graphic sequence (7'40"-10'13"). View of double rainbow. Pictures of different rainbows. Shadow of cameraman. Crane rising. Fireman operating crane. Water flowing from hoses creating a rainbow. View of rainbows (10'14"-11'51") - Monk pouring water into flask. Rainbow produced from water in flask. Graphical sequence showing how a rainbow is produced. Several small still pictures of rainbows on sky background. (11'52"-16'57") - Graphic sequence. View of rainbow from crane. View of rainbow from ground. Graphical sequence. Several small still pictures of rainbows on a sky background (16'58"-19'40") - Alexander's dark band with umbrella in foreground. Graphical sequence explaining dark bands on rainbows. Pictures of rainbows with dark bands. Several small still pictures of rainbows on sky background. Views of double rainbows (19'41"-21'00") - Graphical sequence. Rainbow created by fibre optic illuminator. Graphical sequence (21'01"-22'26"). Still of reflection of a rainbow. Still of two rainbows intersecting taken in the Scottish Highlands (22'27"-23'56"). |
| Master spool number: | DOU8136 |
| Production number: | FOUM491T |
| Videofinder number: | 5144 |
| Available to public: | no |
