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What do we call it when we change the direction light is moving?
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Reflection: When light is bounced back off a surface in different or same direction Deflection: When light goes through a surface but its direction has changed from before it hit the surface
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What describes an object and speed and direction?
As regards a moving object, we call the measure of the speed and direction it is moving its velocity.
What is radial direction?
the direction of OP is call radial direction of the moving point p while the direction of OQ which is perpendicular to OP in the sense of (theta)angle is called transverse direction of the moving point P.
What do we call the tendency of a object to stay at rest or to stay in motion?
We use the term inertia to describe the resistance of an object to any change in its motion. If an object is not moving, it doesn't want to move. If it is moving, it doesn't want to change is speed or the direction it is moving. This is covered by Newton in his laws of motion.
What do you call it when a light hit a suface a changes direction?
reflect
What do you call the change in direction of a wave at a boundary?
The terminology is the same for all waves, including light - so reflection or refraction depending on what you mean by change of direction. Firstly thanks for answering, I meant if you had water waves travelling from deeper to shallower water. The wavefront change direction when entering the shallower. so http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_you_call_the_change_in_direction_of_a_wave_at_a_boundary" The effect is the same as bending of light as it goes from air into glass, for instance, it is refraction.
Can the Inertia of an object change as the object's velocity is changing?
No. What we call 'inertia' is actually a manifestation of the object's mass,which doesn't change (as long as the object isn't moving at some seriousfraction of light speed).
What do you call people who do not like moving forward change?
migrators
Heat flows from hot body to cold body then why you call heat as scalar?
A scalar quantity has no direction, you cannot talk of north heat, or left heat, or upward heat - they are meaningless. The fact that heat travels in one general direction does not imply a single definite direction - think of a crowd moving along a street - although the crowd may be moving in one direction, the individuals could be moving in any direction within the crowd.
What do we call the materials that refracts light?
Refraction is caused when light changes the medium that it is moving through. Therefore any material that is transparent to light will diffract it.
What s relative motion?
You are sitting in a moving train. It appears to you as if the trees outside are moving in the opposite direction. This is what we call relative motion. Sun seems moving from east to west daily. But it is only relative to us as we on the earth are moving from west to east.
What is velocity the same as?
Velocity is a relative term. If we call that the object is moving and in particular direction, then there must be another object present, from witch it is moving away. and we can not say, witch object is moving away. If all object maintain the same position in respect to each other then, we will call them to have zero velocity.
What is the same as zero velocity?
Velocity is a relative term. If we call that the object is moving and in particular direction, then there must be another object present, from witch it is moving away. and we can not say, witch object is moving away. If all object maintain the same position in respect to each other then, we will call them to have zero velocity.
