Answer by Neon for Refraction, reflection, and what is total reflection?
If light travels from 1 medium to another refraction occurs .If we consider light travels from air to glass, here air is the rarer medium .therefore the light will tend to travel in a pathway which is...
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Answer by Waffle's Crazy Peanut for Refraction, reflection, and what is total...
1) Reflection: When a beam of light strikes the surface of a transparent medium like glass or water which has a large number of closely spaced atoms, some of the light photons get scattered in backward...
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Answer by John Rennie for Refraction, reflection, and what is total reflection?
Leaving aside total internal reflection for now, whenever light crosses a refractive index boundary there is always some reflection and some refraction.Refraction is easily understood. In an earlier...
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So if light travels from one media to another with a different refraction index, what may happen happen? Refraction, reflection or total reflection? I am quite confused as to the differences between...
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