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Is a bird looking at a mirror an example of light being refracted?
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∙ 11y ago
Nope. That's reflection, where light waves bounce back. Refraction is where they bend, like through a lens.
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What is meant by spherical aberration of a telescope?
When the image that you see is distorted because light is being refracted throught the very edges of the lens and not converging where the light refracting from the centre of the lens is.
How can Polar Bears have clear fur?
Polar bear skin is black and the fur is actually clear, lacking in pigment. The white appearance is the result of light being refracted from the clear hair strands.
A Newtonian reflector needs no secondary mirrors?
It is not essential to have a secondary mirror on a Newtonian telescope, but the reason there is one is for practicality. If you mounted an eyepiece at the focus of the primary mirror, your head would be directly in the light path, blocking much of the light from entering the tube. The same reason applies to cameras, but with modern CCD cameras being circular and small, it is possible to mount one at the focus of the primary mirror. Indeed, doing this may block less light than a secondary mirror would, certainly in the case of a large aperture instrument (for example 300mm and above.)
What makes up a rainbow?
A rainbow is composed of sunlight hitting small particles of water in the air (often associated with rain, waterfalls, etc.) and being refracted and thus separated into its different wavelengths.
What is the result of the Sun's light being refracted when it is high in the sky around noon?
ANSWER: Blue, Indigo and violet are strongly bent that mostly skim through the upper atmosphere making the sky appear blue.
What is happening to light when it is being reflected?
The light bends. Depending on whether it is a concave or convex mirror, the light is either being refracted or reflected
What is meaning of being?
Looking in the mirror and looking at yourself and just going like "Crap".
What is refrangibility?
Refrangibility is the quality of being, capable of being refracted.
What is polished silver a good example of?
a mirror due to the fact of being reflective.
Is the mirror from Through the Looking Glass a galaxy filament?
No, it's a literary device. Or, if you insist on being literal, it's a looking-glass.
What types of images are produced by a concave mirror?
A concave mirror is dished in ward. A convex mirror domed. Both images will be distorted in size from actuality. A convex mirror will give a wider view of what you are looking at in the mirror. A concave mirror will compress and magnify the image being viewed.
As light passes from one substance to another it is?
Its being Refracted.
How do light rays reflect off a mirror?
By 'Atomic Scattering from the silvering, after being refracted through the glass. (refraction is caused by slowing due to PMD - the slight time delay of polarisation, which is different subject to frequency). EM energy polarises particles and they re-emitt the energy, at the reciprocal angle as long as the mirror is not moving. (if it is it proves school science wrong by doing the reciprocal with respect to the air or vacuum NOT the mirror).
Does a rainbow occur because sunlight is selectively absorbed by water in the raindrops or because it is refracted by water in the raindrops?
Rainbows are the result of sunlight being refracted by drops of water in the air.
Can a mirror be a opaque object?
Great question! A mirror can be called as opaque. Because as a whole, it does not allow light to pass through it..Defn of opaque objects: Impervious to the rays of light.A mirror is actually a thin glass slab with its one side coated with silver. So when the rays fall on the mirror, it first falls on the upper face of the glass slab, gets refracted, travels through it, gets reflected by silver, travels back through glass slab, gets refracted at the upper glass-air interface and comes out.So here light actually "passes through" one of the parts of mirror- the glass slab(the other one being the silver coating).But when you say mirror, you consider the object as a whole and not by parts... AND as a whole it does not allow light to pass through it. Therefore, you can very well call it opaque!!
Can you start a sentence with being?
yes, for example. being this good looking i feel sorry for the ugly ones.
What is a direct wave?
A direct wave is a radio wave that travels directly through space without getting refracted by the ionosphere. In other words, it travels straight to the receiving antenna without being refracted.
