why do lights rays reflected off an object go in all directions?
thanks alot
2007-04-25 10:23:41 · 6 answers · asked by nspeed 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Each point of the reflection is a new source for the light, thus your reflection will reflect in all directions.
2007-04-25 10:31:55 · answer #1 · answered by Robert L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure it's because light rays going ONTO the object come in from all directions. So they reflect in all directions, too.
2007-04-25 17:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by lucym 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No object, no matter HOW flat to the naked eye, is ever perfectly flat.
This means that when beams of light hit an object, they will reflect depedning on how irregualr the surface is. Even a shiny mirror will have surface irregularities.
Here is an analogy.
Drop a tennis ball on a hard floor and it bounces back up.
Drop a tennis ball on an irregualar rocky surface and you don't know which way it will bounce.
No, immagine the rocky surfuce is the surface of the flat object and it is being bombarded with trillions and trillions of tennis balls.
They will bounce in ALL directions.
2007-04-25 17:42:41 · answer #3 · answered by Simon C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each point of the reflection is a new source for the light, thus your reflection will reflect in all directions.
Source(s):
Here is a definition of point source of light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/point_sourc...
2007-04-25 17:32:55 · answer #4 · answered by unnamed 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think because light cant go into anything..it reflects off..
2007-04-25 17:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by ♥RachelRocks123♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
convergent or divergent?
2007-04-25 17:28:22 · answer #6 · answered by BlackFrenchBoy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋