A horse is galloping along and is observed to move from one end a field to another in 20 seconds. The near end of the field is 100m from the farmhouse and the far end of the field is 600m from the farmhouse. What is the average speed of the horse during its gallop through the field? Your answer should be in units of m/s, but only quote the numerical value in your answer, leave out the units.

a.) travels faster in solids because the particles are closer together.

air is a gas water is a liquid

scattering of light by tiny particles in air to produce the colors we see on sky, is dependent on the following factors:

(i) wavelength of light

(ii) size of the scattering particle  

(iii) distance traveled by light through the atmosphere.

according to rayleigh's law of scattering, the amount of scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power of its wavelength. shorter the wavelength, greater is its scattering. hence violet/blue light is scattered more than red.

sun's light is a composite light ( visible light) with wavelengths in the range 400 nm (violet) to 700 nm (red). as sunlight passes through our atmosphere, the molecules of air scatter light according to their wavelengths. during sunrise and sunset, the sun's position is below the horizon. hence light from the sun travels a greater distance in the atmosphere when compared to its position a noon.

as sunlight enters the earth's atmosphere, blue light is scattered away and at the end of its journey in the sky, only red and orange wavelengths remain in the beam.

hence at sunrise and sunset, the sky appears reddish orange.

conservation of mass

mass before something happens = mass afterwards