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When angle of incidence is equal to the brewsters angle the reflected and refracted rays are perpendicular to each other Show it mathematically?
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when angle of incidence is equal to the brewster's angle, the reflected and refracted rays are perpendicular to each other. show it mathematically.
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What is the angle if a wave bounces off a mirror with the reflection of 55 degrees?
The angle of incidence is also 55 degrees because it is reflected
How will you compare prism to raindrops?
Light is refracted and reflected by a (glass) prism Light is refracted and reflected by a raindrop
What is the resulting transformation when a figure is reflected across line m then reflected across line n?
Ask your teacher
What is the line over which a figure is reflected?
It is the axis of reflection.
What happens when light is reflected?
Reflections occur when light bounces of a smooth and shiny surface. Glass mirrors have a thin layer of silver on the back so that light is reflected.
When light is reflected from smooth surface the angle of incidence is?
The angle between the light ray and the normal (perpendicular) to the surface at the point of reflection.
What are angle of reflection and angle of incidence?
The angle of incidence is the angle between the incident ray of radiation (usually light) and the normal (perpendicular) at the point of incidence. Similarly, the angle of reflection is the angle between the reflected ray and the normal.
How do you measure the angles of incidence and reflection?
They are the angles made by the incident ray and the reflected ray with the line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of reflection.
What is an angle of reflection?
Draw a perpendicular from the point where the incident ray is reflected and the angle between the perpendicular and reflected ray is the angle of reflection.
When light is incident on a surface at 30 degrees it is found that reflected ray and refracted ray are perpendicular to each other Find angle of refraction How?
The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
What is the difference between object distance and image distance?
image distance is the distance from the point of incidence on the mirror, the where the image is reflected to.object distance is the distance from the actual object being reflected to the point of incidence on the mirror where it's reflected as an image.
When a light ray is reflected by a mirror is the angle of the light ray and the reflected ray different or the same?
Angle of Incidence = Angle of ReflectionThis is only true if the angle of incidence is greaterthan the critical angle.
What does the law of reflected state?
light's angle of incidence is equal to the angle of its reflection. That the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection
What happens to the light rays as they hit the mirror?
They are reflected at the angle of incidence.
What is the angle between the reflected ray and the normal called?
The angle of incidence.
What is the angle of incidence equivalent to?
Snell's law equates the ratios of two angles and wave velocity.sin(a)/V1 = sin(b)/V2When a wave strikes a medium some energy is reflected and some passes through.a is the angle between the longitudinal wave velocity of the wave in the first medium as measured from a perpendicular to the tangent of the surface of the medium.b is the angle between that perpendicular and the longitudinal wave as it is refracted within the medium.The angle of incidence refers to these angles.Clearly, if the wave strikes perpendicular to the surface, a = b = 0 and sin(a) = sin(b) = 1
What is the angle of incidence if a reflected wave bounces off a mirror with an angle of reflection equal to 55º?
If a light ray is reflected from a flat mirror with a reflection angle of 55o then the angle of incidence was also 55o. When reflecting from a mirrored surface, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
