What happens when light shines directly at a mirror?
How does a mirror reflect waves?
What is the change in direction of light called?
What happens to light when it behaves like an electromagnetic wave?
What is the law of reflection?
How does gold react with oxygen?
Why does water melt when it freezes?
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What happens when light shines directly at a mirror?
If the light is shining directly at the mirror normal to the surface, the light will shine back towards the source.
How does a mirror reflect waves?
A mirror’s glossy surface is non-reactive to the vibrations of the participating particles in the light-propagating medium, and simply reflects those em waves in the same condition as they struck it. Measurements with respect to incidental and reflective wave angles are made relative to the angle of your line of sight to the mirror. It is just plain wrong to say that incidental angle is equal to reflecting angle (remember that measurements must be made relative to your line of sight to the reflected object in the mirror) because those ‘rays’ cover the entire 180° of the mirror’s flat surface. The image of the object in the reflection stays in place, whereas you can move around the entire range and still see the object.
What is the change in direction of light called?
When light falls on a mirror, the direction of light changes.This change in direction of light is called reflection . The angle of reflection depends upon the angle of incidence of the light beam upon the surface of the mirror. The reflection also depends upon the type of the mirror (concave, convex or plane).
What happens to light when it behaves like an electromagnetic wave?
I had not made the experiment. But if light behave like an electromagnetic wave the energy of the light will transform into electrostatics. Part of the light will be absorbed but much of the light will phase due to refraction.
What is the law of reflection?
The short answer is that it reflects, and the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence. That is called the law of reflection
How does gold react with oxygen?
There is an analogy that can help to explain this a little better. Metals react with oxygen in the air. Their surfaces oxidize. That means that they corrode and rust or tarnish, and they get involved in electrolytic reactions when fluids or electricity are passed between different metals. Gold, on the other hand, is an oxygen attractor,like all metals, oxygen being very attractive, but it does not react with it to any appreciable degree. So a surface of gold has that very special property of keeping oxygen around while being immune to oxidation plus it is highly reflective to light waves.
Why does water melt when it freezes?
Because the water volume increases when it freezes so when you put pressure on it, it melts.
