A white floodlight beam crosses a large volume containing a tenuous molecular gas mixture of mostly oxygen and nitrogen. Calculate the relative ratio (fractional, not %) of Rayleigh scattering occurring for the yellow (601 nm) component with that of the violet (414 nm) component. In other words, the violet component is scattered how many times more than the yellow component.

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A white floodlight beam crosses a large volume containing a tenuous molecular gas mixture of mostly oxygen and nitrogen.  Calculate the relative ratio (fractional, not %) of Rayleigh scattering occurring for the yellow (601 nm) component with that of the violet (414 nm) component. In other words, the violet component is scattered how many times more than the yellow component.

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