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What occurs when light passes from one medium to a less optically dense medium at an angle so great that there is no refracted ray?
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It is always refracted, but at an angle so that it goes back into the original medium. This phenomenon is called Total Internal Reflection. The angle that this occurs at is called the critical angle.
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Is the angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction when light passes from a less dense to denser medium?
If you meant optical density by the term 'denser ' Then the answer is.... The light bends towards normal when it travels from a optically less dense medium to optically dense medium. So angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction
What is mathematical refraction?
Mathematical refraction is when we use the mathematical formula to calculate the velocity of light as it passes from one medium to another.
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Is the angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction when light passes from a less dense to denser medium?
If you meant optical density by the term 'denser ' Then the answer is.... The light bends towards normal when it travels from a optically less dense medium to optically dense medium. So angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction
When a wave passes from a less dense medium to a denser one most of the wave energy is?
When a wave passes from a less dense medium to a denser one, most of the wave energy is answer is reflected FALSE
How is refraction related to light?
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Wh yis light refracted when it passes from air to water?
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What is the speed of light in oil?
Einstein says that the speed of light is the same to all observers. This raises some interesting problems and his theories of relativity set out to solve them. But that aside, the speed of light is the same in olive oil and a diamond as it is anywhere else.
What occurs when light is sent in many directions as it passes through a medium?
Refraction
Light is refracted when it passes?
yes
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.
How is sound refracted?
Sound is a wave (of energy) in a medium [solid,liquid, or gas] (a compression wave in fact), therefore it is refracted by any change in the medium AND by the fact that it is never coherent (it never travels in only a straight line).
What is a refracted wave?
It means that the wave changes direction when it passes from one medium to another - for example, from air to water, or from denser air to less dense air.
How does light bend when it passes into a denser material?
The Ray of light bends toward the normal line. The reason is the light in the more dense region has slower speed. The relationship is given by the Law of Signs:sin(incident angel)/incident speed = sin(refracted angle)/dense speedSin(I)/vi = Sin(dense)/vd
