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Glass is an example of what material?
Glass is an example of an amorphous solid or non-crystalline material. Glass is typically characterized to be brittle and optically transparent.
Why is gold used as the reflective surface of some solar panels?
A thin layer of gold that is transparent to visible light but reflective to infrared light is used to keep the temperature of the panels down. This is important in space where the atmosphere does not block solar infrared light, but not needed on the surface of earth.
Why are windows transparent?
they are transparent because if they were not they would not let you see outside and they would not let any light inside.
Materials that transmit light easily without scattering?
We call materials that transmit light easily without scattering "Transparent". Transparent materials include glass, certain jewels (for example diamonds and zircons), certain plastics (for example poly-carbonate), certain gasses (for example air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, ...), and certain liquids (for example pure water, pure carbon tetra-chloride, pure ethanol, ...).
Name two electromagnetic wave use to carry through an optical fiber?
We usually use some form of coherent light wave in fiber optic conduits to move data. That means a laser and the emission of light somewhere at or about optical wavelengths.
What is a characteristic of glass?
Some glass is transparent to visible light.
What element focuses infrared radiation?
nothing Anything that is transparent will have a refractive index. Glass is transparent to visible light and has a refractive index with it. Having these combined properties lets you make a lens for visible light out of glass. Now glass is transparent to IR radiation so any glass lens would focus IR radiation.
What frequencies of visible light are transmitted through a piece of glass if the glass appears clear?
It really depends on the type of glass. "Glass" is a more or less generic name for different substances that look transparent for us. The normal glass is mainly transparent for visible light; it will absorb both most ultraviolet light, and most infrared light.
How are you able to see through glass?
Glass is a transparent medium from Visible Light, which means, visible light can go through it without being blocked. Glass is NOT transparent for the entire electromagnetic spectrum though, Infra-Red light cannot go through glass (it blocks it much like a wall does to visible light!)Generally, the shorter the wavelength (as you go from red to violet to microwaves to x-ray to gamma), the more objects it can penetrate (which is the reason x-ray can penetrate your skin and flesh, but not your bones).
What are the properties of a glass?
a glass has an amorphous structure (random, noncrystalline)a glass is usually brittle, fracturing easily under stress or sudden shocksilicate glass is usually transparent to visible light, but opaque to ultraviolet lightetc.
Why are glass material transparent?
light passes through glass
Why can we see glass when it is transparent?
atoms vibrate, causing it to heat up. Making it transparent.
What are the transparent things?
Those things that transmit visible light.
What type of glass allows some light to pass through it?
A Transparent glass !!
Is frosted glass opaquetranslucent or transparent?
Frosted glass is translucent. It allows light through but scatters the light. This prevents anyone having a clear (transparent) view.
Do transparent objects reflect light?
No, a transparent object would totally transmit all light through it. However there are no transparent objects, and objects which we think of as being transparent are in fact translucent. All objects absorb at least some light. Glass for instance will transmit about 90% or so of visible light and reflect the rest. A transparent object will invariably have edges. Those edges are typically polished to facilitate transmission. A polished surface will always reflect some light.
Earth's atmosphere is mostly transparent to which forms of light energy?
visible
