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The bouncing of a sound wave off a surface may result in an echo being heard.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt's called an echo.
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What is the bouncing of light off a surface called?
The bouncing of light off a surface is called reflection. When a light wave is bent it is called refraction.
How is bouncing a basketball to a friend a model of how light reflects from a surface?
If you think of light as made up of small, elastic particles, then when they hit a hard surface, they will bounce off and travel in another direction. This is analogous to a basketball bouncing off a floor. However, the particle nature of light has been disproven. A more accurate description lies in the wave or particle-wave duality nature of light.
What is required for a sound wave to be reflected?
It has to have a hard surface to bounce off of. :)Apex Not necessarily. The reflector is the surface of a medium of greater density than that through which the incident sound travels, and it can be the surface of water, or a density-boundary caused by sharp temperature or salinity differences in the sea.
What happens when sound waves hit a soft surface?
Part of the energy of a sound wave is absorbed when it comes in contact with a surface, and the rest of that energy is reflected. A soft surface (such as carpet) will absorb much more of the sound than a hard surface (concrete), but the hard surface would still absorb some amount of energy.
What is the scientific explanation for echos?
An echo is a sound wave that has reflected off a boundary
Bouncing of a wave off the surface of a substance?
Reflection
What is the bouncing off light of a surface?
The bouncing of light off a surface is called reflection. When a light wave is bent it is called refraction.
What is the bouncing of light off a surface called?
The bouncing of light off a surface is called reflection. When a light wave is bent it is called refraction.
What is the bouncing of light of a surface called?
The bouncing of light off a surface is called reflection. When a light wave is bent it is called refraction.
Is an echo is an example of sound wave?
An echo is a sound wave that has bounced off a surface
When a sound wave strikes a smooth hard surface the wave is?
When a sound wave strikes a smooth hard surface the wave bounces off. This means that the wave is deflected.
What occurs when a wave strikes an object or surface bounces off?
Waves bouncing off an object is called reflection.
What occurs when a wave strikes an object or surface and bounces?
Waves bouncing off an object is called reflection.
What is it called When a wave bounces of an object?
This is called reflection of sound. It's like a sound wave bouncing on a trampoline.
What is it called when a sound wave bounces off a surface?
Reflection
What do you call the bouncing of a waves from the surface?
reflectionWhen a wave bounces off a surface, it is said to have been reflected and the wave is called a reflection.reflectionWhen a wave bounces off a surface, it is said to have been reflected and the wave is called a reflection.
What is a sound wave that reflects off a hard surface?
An Echo-echo-echo-echo! The answer is Echo
