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  • Thumbnail for Snell's law
    the relative refractive indices of the two media, the light will either be refracted to a lesser angle, or a greater one. These angles are measured with...
    27 KB (3,953 words) - 09:09, 21 September 2024
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    they are refracted from their original direction of travel to an angle more normal to the shoreline. In underwater acoustics, refraction is the bending...
    21 KB (2,580 words) - 06:53, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Refractive index
    bending ability of that medium. The refractive index determines how much the path of light is bent, or refracted, when entering a material. This is described...
    78 KB (8,738 words) - 21:55, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brewster's angle
    reflection at Brewster's angle, the reflected and refracted rays are mutually perpendicular. For magnetic materials, Brewster's angle can exist for only one...
    14 KB (1,707 words) - 11:53, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Total internal reflection
    the angle of incidence approaches a certain threshold, called the critical angle, the angle of refraction approaches 90°, at which the refracted ray becomes...
    109 KB (13,482 words) - 23:31, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Refractometer
    measurement of an index of refraction (refractometry). The index of refraction is calculated from the observed refraction angle using Snell's law. For mixtures...
    14 KB (1,669 words) - 20:51, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Contrast transfer function
    \alpha _{f}} in refracted angle between rays originating from a focused and defocused object, can be related to the refracted angle as R 2 + b 2 ⋅ sin...
    19 KB (2,946 words) - 11:53, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prism spectrometer
    is refracted twice (once when entering and once when leaving). Due to the nature of a dispersive element the angle with which light is refracted depends...
    3 KB (324 words) - 04:23, 2 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fresnel equations
    of refractive indices n1 and n2 at point O. Part of the wave is reflected in the direction OR, and part refracted in the direction OT. The angles that...
    70 KB (8,315 words) - 05:03, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rainbow
    caused by light being refracted when entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it...
    79 KB (9,112 words) - 03:14, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Minimum deviation
    deviation angle is known as the minimum angle of deviation (denoted by δmin, Dλ, or Dm). The angle of minimum deviation is related with the refractive index...
    12 KB (1,276 words) - 02:51, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reflection (physics)
    different refractive index. In the most general case, a certain fraction of the light is reflected from the interface, and the remainder is refracted. Solving...
    16 KB (2,129 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2024
  • critical angle. The angle of reflection and angle of refraction are other angles related to beams. In computer graphics and geography, the angle of incidence...
    4 KB (403 words) - 22:47, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmospheric refraction
    coefficient of refraction. Under this model the ray can be considered a straight line on an Earth of increased radius. The curvature of the refracted ray in arc...
    30 KB (3,728 words) - 06:38, 8 February 2024
  • upper limb of the Sun appears, as refracted by the atmosphere, to be on the horizon. A weighted daily average zenith angle, used in computing the local albedo...
    8 KB (1,218 words) - 07:15, 9 June 2023
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    Ray (optics) (redirect from Refracted ray)
    power in the refracted ray, the power in the reflected ray, and any power absorbed at the surface. If the material is birefringent, the refracted ray may split...
    13 KB (1,955 words) - 10:26, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Numerical aperture
    that characterizes the range of angles over which the system can accept or emit light. By incorporating index of refraction in its definition, NA has the...
    17 KB (2,287 words) - 19:22, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Birefringence
    refractive index. When a beam is incident on such a material from air (or any material with a lower refractive index), the slow ray is thus refracted...
    59 KB (6,584 words) - 09:11, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Negative-index metamaterial
    between the angle of incidence of a beam of electromagnetic radiation (light) and the resulting angle of refraction rests on the refractive indices, n...
    72 KB (7,633 words) - 05:58, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oil immersion
    orders have to be collected. This is related to the opening angle of the lens and its refractive index. The resolution of a microscope is defined as the minimum...
    9 KB (1,175 words) - 11:31, 4 March 2024
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