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$Reflection refraction and diffraction behavior$

$reflection refraction and diffraction behavior$

A rough surface will present many different very small angles of incidence for light to reflect off of, so macroscopically the overall reflection will be diffuse. Reflection is almost completely regular from a mirror because of the mirror's smooth, highly polished surface. "Mirror" by Cgs - English Wikipedia - Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons A plane mirror reverses the scene it reflects, with objects on the left appearing to the right in the mirror image, and everything appearing to be as far behind the mirror's surface as they are in fact in front of it. With regular reflection, one doesn't see the object that the light reflects off of, such as the surface of a polished mirror, but rather the objects that are reflected by it. In the everyday macroscopic world, regular reflection is only perceived off of mirror-like surfaces. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via CommonsĪt the microscopic level, all reflection is regular, which is a way of saying that one can visibly perceive that the reflected light conforms to these laws.

Incident and reflected light rays are on opposite sides of the normal line passing through the point of incidence and perpendicular to the reflecting surface.

Incident and reflected light rays lie in the same plane.

The angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence.

For being such a critical phenomenon of nature, the laws that describe the reflection of light are remarkably simple. The most fundamental behavior of all of these is probably reflection. Original work by author based on illustration in "Light And Color" published by Golden Press, 1971 Taken together, the changes that light goes through as a result of all of these processes is responsible for all that may be seen. Any light that is neither reflected or transmitted is absorbed, and adds to the internal heat energy of the material at an atomic or molecular level. Light rays that are reflected or transmitted may become polarized, and transmitted light may be scattered or refracted. "Tso Kiagar Lake Ladakh" by Prabhu B - Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons

$reflection refraction and diffraction behavior$

Of these, only the first three - transmission, absorption and reflection - are needed to account for all of the electromagnetic energy, or light, which falls upon an object.

$reflection refraction and diffraction behavior$

When considering the nature of light and color, it makes sense to ask in what ways does light behave? An inclusive list of the basic categories of behavior for light would most likely include transmission, absorption, reflection, refraction, diffraction, scattering, polarization and interference. Peter DeCurtins Tuesday, October 27, 2015

$Reflection refraction and diffraction behavior$