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Yes. Most surfaces scatter light in all directions.
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Reflection in a window at night?
The image you see the the reflection of light from the object into your eyes. During the day time, light from the object incident and reflect to your eyes as well as light from the outside refract to your eyes. Therefore, you barely notice the image. At night, however, there is no source of light from the window outside. As a result, there is only light from the object(yourself) reflect back to your eyes. Hence, your image is visible on the window at night.
How does light bounce off things?
Light bouncing off things is also known as reflecting light. If the material is transparent, most of the light will pass through, only some will be reflected. If the material is translucent, some of the light will pass through, some will be reflected. If the material is opaque, only a few of the light will pass through, most light will be reflected. I wrote this in a hurry; it's almost time to go; I'm sorry; I hope it will be useful to you though.
Why has the image of the hero changed over time?
to reflect how a specific time and culture view heroism -apex
Why do room heaters have polished reflectors?
Room heaters have polished reflectors because bright, polished reflectors reflect heat more efficiently and hence more heat is generated in front of the heater, at the same time since they.
What causes light bent when it enter from air to water?
To keep things simple, let's simply accept that water and air have different densities.This means that there are fewer molecules per square millimeter.When light hits an atom or molecule, it must be absorbed then emitted again. This takes time.This, in turn, means that light does not take as much time to move through air than water. When light enters water from air, it "slows down" and its direction changes as a result. This effect is known as refraction.
When can light change direction?
A simple means is to use a mirror (or some other reflective material). A ray of light will reflect and refract to varying degrees as it interacts with surfaces. You can apply basic geometry with optics laws to see how you can change the path of a ray of light. Snell's Law gives the relationship between direction and different surfaces. A more interesting means of changing light direction involves something about black holes. May be their distortion of space or time, or simply their apparent vast gravity. I believe we've managed to show that phonons (light) have mass, so you could use gravity to deflect them. I'm pretty sure photons also have magnetic and electric fields, so a sufficiently radical magnetic field would be handy too. Now, to pick on your choice of words, light "can" change direction any time something that changes its direction occurs. In other words, it's not a function of time.
Why black colour absorb and radiate more heat?
The objects is black when no light reflect from it, hence, it absorb light very well. And at the same time, what can absorb light very well would radiate heat very well .
Can light change directions?
A simple means is to use a mirror (or some other reflective material). A ray of light will reflect and refract to varying degrees as it interacts with surfaces. You can apply basic geometry with optics laws to see how you can change the path of a ray of light. Snell's Law gives the relationship between direction and different surfaces. A more interesting means of changing light direction involves something about black holes. May be their distortion of space or time, or simply their apparent vast gravity. I believe we've managed to show that phonons (light) have mass, so you could use gravity to deflect them. I'm pretty sure photons also have magnetic and electric fields, so a sufficiently radical magnetic field would be handy too. Now, to pick on your choice of words, light "can" change direction any time something that changes its direction occurs. In other words, it's not a function of time.
Does a lens refract light?
a lens will refract light. a mirror will reflect the light.
How long could light reflect?
Light is reflected by an object for however long a light source is shining on it. Also, even when the light source is gone, the light that was reflected continues for an infinite amount of time.
What does the time taken for a packet to reach a destination usually reflect?
The speed of light, multiplied by distance the packet has to travel
How can the moon reflect on the sun at night time?
Actually the moon can not reflect on the sun at night. The sun is at an angle which still allows it to generate light to the moons surface which gives up moonlight
Do light travel to a single direction only?
The light from our sun radiates out in all direction as the sun is ball-shaped. The part of light that strikes the earth, forming daylight, is spread over a wide area of the earth that happens to be facing towards the sun at the time. This means that light doesn't travel in a single direction. A laser beam is an example of a concentrated beam of light travelling in a single direction.
What must happen to all wavelengths of light?
There a couple things that must happen to all wavelengths of light so that a substance can reflect white. The substance needs to be able to reflect each wavelength equally and the wavelengths must hit it at the same time.
When a light ray passes obliquely through the atmosphere in an upward direction how does its path generally change?
Most of the time, a light ray passing through the atmosphere in any direction curves away from its original direction toward the earth's surface. Occasionally, light can proceed straight through the atmosphere with no change in direction. Rarely, it can bend away from the surface.
Why does the northern side of a house get more light in the southern hemisphere?
At 12pm(noon) the sun is just on the earth's equator.At this time if any person living in equatrial country see the sun,he will find it quite on his head i.e.in upward and not in any direction. In the same time if a person in northen hemisphere(Asia,Europe,north America) sees the sun,he will find it up,but a little southwards.This 'a little' increases with increase in the distance between him and equator.So we get more light in the south direction. Similarly reative to the equator in sourthen hemisphere(Australia,lower Africa and Australia) we find sun a little northwards in the sky.So we get more light in north direction(because sun is there).Hence the norhern side of houses or trees gets more light.
What is a sentence for reflect?
I need time to reflect. The stones around the campfire will reflect the heat. A mirror will reflect your image.
