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experience refraction. How much a wave is refracted is determined by the change in wave speed and the initial direction of wave propagation relative to the...21 KB (2,580 words) - 06:53, 19 September 2024
Snell's law (redirect from Angle of refraction)angle of incidence which still results in a refracted ray is called the critical angle; in this case the refracted ray travels along the boundary between the...27 KB (3,953 words) - 16:14, 26 October 2024- medium to the speed in air or vacuum. The refractive index determines how much the path of light is bent, or refracted, when entering a material. This is described...78 KB (8,741 words) - 20:49, 1 November 2024
Birefringence (redirect from Extraordinary wave)a material from air (or any material with a lower refractive index), the slow ray is thus refracted more towards the normal than the fast ray. In the...59 KB (6,588 words) - 18:05, 18 October 2024
Total internal reflection (category Waves)θcr), the angle of refraction approaches 90° (that is, the refracted ray approaches a tangent to the interface), and the refracted ray becomes fainter...109 KB (13,492 words) - 15:52, 25 October 2024
refraction occurs when a wave passes from one medium into another. The amount by which a wave is refracted by a material is given by the refractive index...61 KB (7,836 words) - 18:13, 21 September 2024
depend on the fact that seismic waves have differing velocities in different types of soil or rock. The waves are refracted when they cross the boundary...4 KB (581 words) - 16:15, 10 July 2024- two wave surfaces follow distinct paths within the crystal. Eventually, two refracted rays emerge as a result of this propagation. Double refraction Electromagnetic...17 KB (2,048 words) - 15:29, 9 July 2024
the relationship that the surface wave arrives first at the point near the epicenter, and conversely the refracted wave arrives first at the point far from...3 KB (360 words) - 21:19, 24 June 2023
Plane of incidence (redirect from S and p waves)reflected ray also lies in the plane of incidence; when refraction also occurs, the refracted ray lies in the same plane. The condition of co-planarity...2 KB (240 words) - 16:28, 14 January 2023
distances, the first arriving P waves have necessarily travelled deep into the mantle, and perhaps have even refracted into the outer core of the planet...21 KB (2,384 words) - 03:14, 24 October 2024
Fresnel equations (redirect from Fresnel refraction)reflected in the direction OR, and part refracted in the direction OT. The angles that the incident, reflected and refracted rays make to the normal of the interface...69 KB (8,311 words) - 21:31, 4 November 2024- Evanescent field (redirect from Evanescent Wave)similar cases, where a propagating electromagnetic wave would normally be expected (such as light refracted at the interface between glass and air), the term...23 KB (3,164 words) - 17:09, 6 September 2024
Waveplate (redirect from Wave Plate)fluoride the refractive index changes in the second decimal place and true zero order plates are common for wavelengths above 1 μm. For a half-wave plate, the...17 KB (2,325 words) - 14:57, 3 November 2024
Rayleigh or Love waves. Electromagnetic waves can also propagate as "surface waves" in that they can be guided along with a refractive index gradient or...24 KB (2,977 words) - 11:35, 20 April 2024
Optics (section Refractions)out of a prism to appear with red light the least refracted and blue/violet light the most refracted. Conversely, if a pulse travels through an anomalously...106 KB (12,873 words) - 14:54, 3 November 2024
Electromagnetic radiation (redirect from Electromagnetic wave)the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Electromagnetic waves can be polarized, reflected, refracted, or diffracted, and can interfere with each other. In...82 KB (9,691 words) - 15:38, 25 October 2024
particular, waves shoal as they pass over submerged sandbanks or reefs. This can be treacherous for boats and ships. Shoaling can also refract waves, so the...12 KB (1,537 words) - 21:25, 4 March 2024
are refracted slightly when they pass through the transition between the semisolid mantle and the liquid outer core. As a result, there is a P wave "shadow...10 KB (1,050 words) - 21:47, 8 October 2024
Light (redirect from Light Wave)waves in the laboratory and demonstrating that these waves behaved exactly like visible light, exhibiting properties such as reflection, refraction,...51 KB (6,345 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2024
- in other words, the ray is refracted or bent at the point of incidence. The laws governing refraction are: (1) the refracted and incident rays are coplanar
- Axiom II. If the reflected or refracted Ray be returned directly back to the Point of Incidence, it shall be refracted into the Line before described
- reflected and partially refracted. Reflection means that the wave is turned back into the half-space from which it came, while refraction means that it passes