which is refelected and which are refracted i keep getting them wrong i dont understand??
The red color of an apple.
An object underwater looks closer than it is.
An image in a mirror.
A rainbow
In a makeup mirror your face looks enlarged.
Why glasses or contacts improve vision.
2007-10-21 02:31:09 · 6 answers · asked by molly 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
1. Red is being REFLECTED and hitting your eye (image a bouncy ball hitting a wall, and then bouncing back and hitting you in the face)
2. REFRACTION. the light is being bent to make it appear closer.
A rainbow is also refraction, because white light is being bent into all the colors that make it.
however, i do not know about the other questions....so to avoid accidentally giving you false information, i will other people answer those ones....
2007-10-21 02:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by Lordy Lordy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The red color of an apple.
- Reflection
An object underwater looks closer than it is.
- Refraction
An image in a mirror.
- Reflection
A rainbow
- Refraction
In a makeup mirror your face looks enlarged.
- Reflection
Why glasses or contacts improve vision.
- Refraction
2007-10-21 10:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by Madhukar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A 'reflection' is when the incident ray 'bounces' off of the object. A 'refraction' is what happens when the incident ray travels across a region where the 'refractive index' changes (such as air to water or air to glass) and the ray appears to 'bend'.
Armed with that information, you should be able to answer all of those questions yourself âº
Doug
2007-10-21 09:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually when something changes it is because it has been refracted. you could argue that everything has been reflected b/c light must bounce off it and into your eye for you to see it. sp like splitting light into multiple colors, or the magnification or general distortion is usually attributed to refraction, whereas if it's not distorted it's usually considered to be just reflection.
2007-10-21 09:45:40 · answer #4 · answered by keyahnoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reflection rays reache the corted mirrow surface and bounces back while reflaction rays go through the glass of different media. Read Snell's low of reflaction
Reflaction can happen in water and reflection in mirrows.
If you know a mirrage, how it is formed then that is reflaction,
then curved mirrows.
2007-10-21 09:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by sammie 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1,3,5 - reflection
2,6 - refraction.
4 - reflection and refraction.
2007-10-21 10:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by karikalan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋