Its optical density.
The refractive index of silver is approximately 0.47. This means that light travels slower in silver than in a vacuum. When light enters silver, it bends or refracts, and this affects how it interacts with the material, causing phenomena like reflection and absorption.
No, the amount a lens refracts light depends on its material and curvature. A less curved lens will refract light less than a more curved lens if they are made of the same material. The refractive index of the material and the curvature of the lens both play a role in determining the amount of refraction.
Refraction is caused when light changes the medium that it is moving through. Therefore any material that is transparent to light will diffract it.
A prism. It can be made of glass, crystal, or other hard clear material.
-- Its speed increases. -- Its wavelength increases. -- It refracts away from the normal to the interface at the point of incidence.
A prism is a piece of glass that refracts light by separating it into its component colors.
No, a mirror can not refrect. Instead, it can reflect. Water is an example of a substance that refracts.
what do you call a curved piece of glass or other transparent material that refracts light
Yes.
It's (the speed of light in vacuum)/(the speed of light in the material) .
It's (the speed of light in vacuum)/(the speed of light in the material) .
The light refracts or bend .