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What is the history of GFI history?

Ground fault interferance history is relative to the motion of optical refracted light, characterized in a vacuum related quadrahedron.


When is an object seen?

You don't actually see the object you see the light that has reflected off of it, that reaches your eyes. What you see is actually in the past. first the light hits it then it travels to your eyes to the optic nerve from there to the brain where it gets sorted out to make sense to you. This all happens so quickly that you may as well have actually seen the object, unless of course it is many light years away like the stars where you can see objects that have stopped being what you see millions of years ago. -someone I am reading in my science book and it says that 'When white light strikes a colored opaque object, some colors of light are absorbed, and some are reflected. Only the light that is reflected reaches your eyes. The colors of light that is reflected by an opaque object determine the color you see.' -Haileybh


How is color made?

Colors arent the 3 primary colors, its the 7 colors of the rainbow ROYGBIV(Red,Orange,Yellow,Green,Blue,Indigo,Violet) What happens is... well the life of all color is light, without light there is no color, cause light has all these colors (ROYGBIV) When something is red, that means that everycolor from light is being absorbed EXCEPT Red, red is being refracted or kicked out, when something is black, non are being absorbed they are all being refracted, when something is white, all the colors are being absorbed. When there is no light, there is no color, and we wont see color cause it would be to dark to see.


What color are the red coat's coat?

All of them.... except for whatever shade of red the coat is. That frequency of light is reflected into your eye.


Why is water clear but when you spill it it makes things darker?

Water is clear because the electrons that make up its atomic structure are not capable of absorbing or reflecting much visible light. it slightly reflects blue light, but this is only noticeable in large scale quantities (like swimming pools and oceans). Another rather interesting property of water is that it refracts light (changes its direction) by slowing the speed of light down to about two-thirds its speed in a vacuum. this property is solely responsible for the "darkening" of materials. Think of, say, a green shirt. Imagine water suddenly spilled on it. What would it look like? the affected areas will have a comparatively darker color. This is due to the fact that some of the light that was supposed to be reflected to the eye of the observer has in fact been internally refracted away by an intrinsic layer of water now on the shirt, which in turn causes the shirt to appear darker-looking.

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How will you compare prism to raindrops?

Light is refracted and reflected by a (glass) prism Light is refracted and reflected by a raindrop


How light is reflected and refracted in a diamond?

Light is reflected and refracted in a diamond based on the angles of its facets relative to the source of the light.


When light goes through a camera lens is it reflected or refracted?

It would be refracted.


What is a copy of an object formed by reflected or refracted rays of light?

An image is a copy of an object fromed by reflected (or refracted) rays of light.


What is the difference between reflected rays of light and refracted rays?

When a beam of light hits a mirror and bounces off, it is reflected. When light is refracted it means the light penetrates into a substance and changes the direction of its movement.


When light travels through a pair of eyeglasses is it reflected or refracted?

Refracted. Light passing through is refracted, light bouncing off of is reflected.


Is production of rainbow light reflected or refracted?

A reflected light would be light reflected by a mirror, and the light would remain unchanged. A reflected light of daylight is when white light is split into 'rainbow' colours.


What word describes stopping light so that it is not reflected or refracted?

When light is stopped it is normally said that absorption has taken place. Opaque objects normally absorb light and thus it does not get reflected or refracted.


What will happen to light that are not absorb?

Light that is not absorbed is either reflected, refracted, or transmitted.


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


How does incident light emerge from a prism?

Incident light hits a prism, refracted or reflected light emerges from it. In what manner it is different from the incident light depends on the angle of incidence and the angles of the prism. Commonly it may be refracted, dispersed or reflected back.


What two things happen to light when it strikes to an object?

refracted or reflected