Questions tagged [refraction]
Change in the direction of propagation of a wave when its transmitting medium changes. The tag does also apply to index of refraction.
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reflection, refraction and diffraction occur in radio waves, which one occurs the most?
One of the things about Radio waves is that they undergo different behaviors such as reflection, refraction and diffraction when in contact with obstacles such as walls, buildings etc. what i want to ...
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Snell's Law of Refraction
I was told that "Snell's law of refraction implies that a light ray in an isotropic medium travels from point a to point b in stationary time." Why is this true?
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Does coverslip thickness matter for high NA oil immersion objectives?
This question is related to Impact of covering glass on lens performance.
I use a 63x TIRF objective with a numerical aperture of 1.46 and oil immersion.
The immersion oil has an index of $n_e=1.518$....
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Refractive index of organic solvents in near-infrared
I wonder if the refractive index of acetone, ethanol, methanol, heptane was measured in the range above 830 nm. The site refractiveindex.info provides it only for visible, and I couldn't find any ...
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