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What causes an object to be more reflective than refractive?
This is a question that a high school student asked me and I couldn't give him a satisfactory answer. He started by saying that
An object appears red because the energy corresponding to a "red&...
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Why can't two truly identical experiments on quantum scale give the same result?
When we refract light on air/water interface, some part of light is reflected while some of it gets refracted.
My question is when we consider light as a photon and send it (photons) one by one, what ...
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Explanation of Reflection and Refraction
I've studied Huygens wave theory. But Huygens assumed that light is a wave in 'ether' which we know doesn't exist. Light is basically a electromagnetic wave. So I want to understand how light actually ...
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How can we explain, from quantum mechanics, why do we see light rays bend when light goes from one medium to another? [duplicate]
Refraction: I want a qualitative Quantum Mechanical explanation of why do we see light rays -in the classical picture- bend when light goes from one medium to another. I read that it is due to ...
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What happens when light is reflected from a surface moving in a medium with a huge refractive index?
Imagine a mirror is moving away from a light source in a substance through which the speed of light is very slow -- so slow that the speed of the mirror is close to being the same as the speed of the ...
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