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What is a bending that occurs when a wave moves from one medium to another at an angle and changes speed?
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When a toy car travels from a plain floor to the grass lawn we see that it deflects.Similarly light too bends when it changes its medium.This bending can be seen at the boundary of the two mediums that separates them.
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What is the difference between waves bending due to refraction and diffraction?
Refraction is the bending of light when it passes from one medium to another medium (like from air to glass). The basis for refraction is the speed of light is slightly different in the two mediums. Diffraction is the bending of light that occurs around a sharp edge (like light passing thru a slit). The basis for diffraction is the spreading out of the wave as it passes by the sharp edge.
What is the difference between rarefaction and refraction?
Refraction occurs when a wave crosses a boundary from one medium to another. A wave entering a medium at an angle will change direction.Diffraction refers to the "bending of waves around an edge" of an object. Diffraction depends on the size of the object relative to the wavelength of the wave.bestfahadali@yahoo.com
Bending of light waves when they pass through another substance?
this occurs when an object takes in light waves
When does refraction happen?
Refraction occurs when light travels from one medium to another having different optical densities.
Refraction of a sound wave occurs when a wave passes at an angle from one medium into another in which the of the wave is different?
speed
When do waves bend traveling through a medium?
The bending of a wave occurs when the wave hits a object?
When light waves enter a new medium and bend what occurs?
When light enters a different medium, the amount that the light is bent as it enters the medium is determined by the medium's index of refraction.
Where does refraction occur?
Refraction occurs because waves move at different speeds in different bodies. Because a wave hits the other medium at an angle, part of the wave changes speed earlier than the rest, turning the waves. this is most obvious with light waves in water, but it happens with all types of waves in any change of medium.
What is the difference between waves bending due to refraction and diffraction?
Refraction is the bending of light when it passes from one medium to another medium (like from air to glass). The basis for refraction is the speed of light is slightly different in the two mediums. Diffraction is the bending of light that occurs around a sharp edge (like light passing thru a slit). The basis for diffraction is the spreading out of the wave as it passes by the sharp edge.
What is the difference between rarefaction and refraction?
Refraction occurs when a wave crosses a boundary from one medium to another. A wave entering a medium at an angle will change direction.Diffraction refers to the "bending of waves around an edge" of an object. Diffraction depends on the size of the object relative to the wavelength of the wave.bestfahadali@yahoo.com
If the bending of a wave entering a new medium occurs because the two sides of the wave are traveling at different?
Because the mediums are Traveling at different speeds.
How light travels in a single medium in terms of speed and bending of light?
In a single homogeneous medium (electrical properties constant throughout the medium), the speed of light is constant ... although less than its speed in vacuum ... and the light does not bend. Bending (refraction) only occurs at the boundary between different media in which the speeds are different, or in a single medium whose properties change gradually (like the atmosphere).
Occurs when one type of matter changes to another type of matter?
A physical change occurs.
Bending of light waves when they pass through another substance?
this occurs when an object takes in light waves
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
Bending and breaking occurs when this happens?
shearing
What type of change occurs when matter changes form one state to another?
A physical change occurs.
