2007-03-20 18:30:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes, and they quite often do. Any time you see the reflection off of a tinted window, you're seeing reflected light.. but anyone on the other side of the window will be seeing refracted light. (light that is transmitted is refracted twice, once at each interface between the glass and the air).
2007-03-20 18:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by Tom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, mostly they occur at the same time, but In certain cases you can have only reflection or refraction:
Anti-reflection glass prevents reflection.
Total internal reflection prevents refraction when they ray falls by an incidence angle larger than the critical angle.
You can use a semi-polished glass block and a laser source to have reflection and refraction in the same time.
2007-03-20 20:32:39 · answer #2 · answered by ray2_moot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
refracted light can be reflected by the medium that refracts it. simpler way to think of it, if light passed into a mirror where the glass surface was imperfect then the light would be refracted by the angles of the glass in the mirror, but the mirror by nature will reflect the light back to you, it could actualy cause a prism effect if the glass is thick enough and the imperfection was bad enough, it would look kind of like a funhouse mirror.
2007-03-20 18:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by nyxcat1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, both reflection and refraction bend light at the same time. Reflection bends light on a mirrored surface and refraction bends light through a series or a single clear lens.
2007-03-20 18:37:14 · answer #4 · answered by Shellback 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
For example
When you do experiments with a Prism you see different bands of light (VIBGYOR) due 2 REFRACTION and at the same time you r able to see the prism itself also . If REFLECTION wouldn't have occurred from the surfaces of the prism then u would have not been able 2 see the prism itself.
2007-03-20 18:39:26 · answer #5 · answered by Rishi_is_great 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some light will reflect from the surface where light is refracted. the two are separate processes.
2007-03-20 18:38:45 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occurring At The Same Time
2017-03-02 06:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.A part of the light incident on the object gets reflected,another fraction may get transmitted,&another fraction may get transmitted.
2007-03-20 21:45:07 · answer #8 · answered by plr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but only if the angle is less than the critical angle
2007-03-20 18:38:31 · answer #9 · answered by Rich 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋