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How does light travel when the medium it travels through changes and how does light travel when the medium does not change?
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Light travels in straight lines when the medium's density is constant.
When light enters a different density perpendicularly, it also travels in a straight line.
When light enters a higher density at an angle, it bends towards an imaginary line perpendicular to its pont of entry.
When light enters a lower density medium, it bends away from the imaginary perpendicular line. This is seen with objects partially submerged in water. The light exits the water and bends away from its normal path, making the object appear crooked in relation to the unsubmerged portion.
Sometimes light will be reflected at the boundary of two mediums. This is seen in optic fibres.
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When light travels from one medium to another which factors changes?
direction changes.
The frequency of electromagnetic energy traveling through a medium can change if what changes?
amplitude
Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium?
a medium as longitude wave
When waves travel from one point to another what is transferred through the medium?
When waves travel from one point to another energy is transferred through the medium. Waves are periodic vibrations or oscillations in a medium that propagate through the medium carrying energy in the form of the movement. Exceptions to this are light and gravity waves, which do not require a medium for propagation.
What travels through a medium as a disturbence?
Sound.
A medium can effect speed of sound by changes in what?
When you change density and temperature you effect the way sound travels through a medium.
The material through which a wave travels is?
The material through which a wave travels is called the medium.
When light travels from one medium to another which factors changes?
direction changes.
The frequency of electromagnetic energy traveling through a medium can change if what changes?
amplitude
Does amplitude of a wave changes when travels in a different medium?
Yes.
Matter through which a waves travels?
"A compressible medium." "A displaceable medium."
Sound is a disturbance that travels through a medium?
a medium as longitude wave
Wave that travels through a medium?
Frequecy
What travels through a medium as a disturbence?
Sound.
When waves travel from one point to another what is transferred through the medium?
When waves travel from one point to another energy is transferred through the medium. Waves are periodic vibrations or oscillations in a medium that propagate through the medium carrying energy in the form of the movement. Exceptions to this are light and gravity waves, which do not require a medium for propagation.
What is material through which a wave travels?
The general term for what a wave travels through is a medium, but in the case of earthquakes the wave travels through the ground.
What will happen when a wave travels through a medium?
when a wave travel through medium then sound is produced
