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Refraction is when light slightly bends because glass or water is in the way. This makes the object look bent or crooked. For example when you put a straw in a glass of water, the straw looks as if it were bent, but it really isn't. Reflection is when the light particles of an object bounce off of another object showing the same image. You can't see your reflection on all objects though.
Casimir Keebler
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∙ 11y ago- Both change the direction of light
- They both don't absorb light
Hope that helps
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∙ 9y agoReflection and refraction both have to do with the interaction of light against objects. Reflection involves bouncing light back away from the surface, while refraction involves bending the light as it passes through.
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∙ 10y agoWhen light hits a surface, part of the light is reflected. On a clean and polished metallic surface, almost hundred percent of the incident ray is reflected, while on a surface of a clear glass, only a small amount of light is reflected. When light bends as it passes from one medium to another, this is called reflection.
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∙ 12y agoAccording to what i know the same in them is only the law 1st law of both refraction and reflection...ie the incident ray,reflected/refracted ray at point of incidence and the normal all 3 lie in same plane...!!
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Reflection and refraction are both behaviors of waves such as light and sound
Kyleigh Jacobs
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∙ 13y agothey both show an image of your face when you look at ether of them
but refracted picture is a lot less distiked and harder to see through like aliminium foil.
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∙ 11y agothey are both being reflected,they r both waves,
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∙ 10y agothey both have to do with light
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Caused by light refraction in the atmosphere?
Mirage is a good example which is seen due to refraction of light and especially due to total internal reflection. ============================ A semi-opposing opinion: No reflection is required for the creation of a mirage, only refraction. ============================= Hope you might have heard about the conditions for total internal relection to take place. 1) Ray has to traverse from denser to rarer 2) the angle of incidence is to be more than critical angle of the denser medium So in such a case the refraction phenomenon cannot take place and so all the energy to be refracted is sent back to the denser medium itself. Hence named as total internal reflection. Of course total internal reflection is totally different from ordinary reflection.
What is Refracting and Reflecting?
Reflection: light bounces off of a surface, like a mirror.Refraction: light goes through a substance and bends. For example, white light through a prism comes out in a rainbow because the light is refracted or bent and each color has a different index of refraction.
What are the effects of refraction of light?
The effects of the wave nature of light include the reflection, refraction, dispersion, and diffraction of light, and its behavior during constructive and destructive interference. Everyday examples include: -- Mirrors, which would not work without reflection. -- Eyeglasses and the human eye, which would not work without refraction. -- Satellite dishes, which would not work without constructive interference.
What are the 2 conditions when the direction does not change on refraction?
-- Light approaches the boundary between any two media along the normal direction. -- Light approaches the boundary at any angle and the indexes of refraction of both media are equal.
What is the thinnest film of a thin film with index of refraction n equals 1.38 on glass n equals 1.5 that produces a strong reflection for orange light with a wavelength of 606 nm?
220 nm 606nm/1.38*2 t=lamda/n*2
What is the difference from reflection and refraction?
REFLECTION: 1It is the phenomena in which a ray of light after striking a surface retuns back to the same medium. 2.reflection is carried out by the help of mirrors such as concave and convex mirrors. REFRACTION: 1.when a ray of light travels from one medium to another medium its speed changes and this change in speed causes refraction of light. 2.it is caused by lenses such as concace and convex lenses.
What does prism?
A prism can help us understand the refraction and the reflection of light when it asses between 2 different mediums ( from one medium into another less refractive or from one medium into another more refractive ) and the ray of light may emerge out of the prism by refraction or by reflection and sometimes by total internal reflection ( by obeying the 2 laws of reflection and by making the angel of incidence equal to the angle of reflection ) and sometimes it may continue its path without deviation that is when the angle of incidence is equal to 0 degrees then the angle of refraction will be equal to 0 degrees this is called undeviated !It separates the wavelengths contained in a beam of light.
What a prism does?
A prism can help us understand the refraction and the reflection of light when it asses between 2 different mediums ( from one medium into another less refractive or from one medium into another more refractive ) and the ray of light may emerge out of the prism by refraction or by reflection and sometimes by total internal reflection ( by obeying the 2 laws of reflection and by making the angel of incidence equal to the angle of reflection ) and sometimes it may continue its path without deviation that is when the angle of incidence is equal to 0 degrees then the angle of refraction will be equal to 0 degrees this is called undeviated !It separates the wavelengths contained in a beam of light.
What does prism do?
A prism can help us understand the refraction and the reflection of light when it asses between 2 different mediums ( from one medium into another less refractive or from one medium into another more refractive ) and the ray of light may emerge out of the prism by refraction or by reflection and sometimes by total internal reflection ( by obeying the 2 laws of reflection and by making the angel of incidence equal to the angle of reflection ) and sometimes it may continue its path without deviation that is when the angle of incidence is equal to 0 degrees then the angle of refraction will be equal to 0 degrees this is called undeviated !It separates the wavelengths contained in a beam of light.
What does a prism do with white light?
A prism can help us understand the refraction and the reflection of light when it asses between 2 different mediums ( from one medium into another less refractive or from one medium into another more refractive ) and the ray of light may emerge out of the prism by refraction or by reflection and sometimes by total internal reflection ( by obeying the 2 laws of reflection and by making the angel of incidence equal to the angle of reflection ) and sometimes it may continue its path without deviation that is when the angle of incidence is equal to 0 degrees then the angle of refraction will be equal to 0 degrees this is called undeviated !It separates the wavelengths contained in a beam of light.
Caused by light refraction in the atmosphere?
Mirage is a good example which is seen due to refraction of light and especially due to total internal reflection. ============================ A semi-opposing opinion: No reflection is required for the creation of a mirage, only refraction. ============================= Hope you might have heard about the conditions for total internal relection to take place. 1) Ray has to traverse from denser to rarer 2) the angle of incidence is to be more than critical angle of the denser medium So in such a case the refraction phenomenon cannot take place and so all the energy to be refracted is sent back to the denser medium itself. Hence named as total internal reflection. Of course total internal reflection is totally different from ordinary reflection.
What is Refracting and Reflecting?
Reflection: light bounces off of a surface, like a mirror.Refraction: light goes through a substance and bends. For example, white light through a prism comes out in a rainbow because the light is refracted or bent and each color has a different index of refraction.
2 differences between a mirror and a lens?
A mirror is a device that is based on the principle of reflection whereas lenses are devices that are based on the principle of refraction. They are both used in fields such as optics, astronomy, photography and various other fields.
State the law of refraction?
Ans. The law of reflection states for that: 1. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. 2. The incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal at the point of incidence lie in the same plane.
What is the difference between refraction and transmission?
the difference is transmission occur in same medium,but refraction occurs whn 2 medias are there,its actually bending of light at interface of 2 medias
What 2 ways does light bend?
Reflection means complete change in path when light strikes a mirror and refraction means bending of a ray of light when passing from on medium to another.
what is the similarities between cell theory and spontaneous generation?
the similarities is like a 2 sides coin
