snell's law

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Definition of snell's law in English Turkish dictionary

snell yasası

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Definition of snell's law in English English dictionary

the law that, for a ray incident on the interface of two media, the sine of the angle of incidence times the index of the refraction of the first medium is equal to the sine of the angle of refraction times the index of refraction of the second medium

Because the ratio n1/n2 is a constant for any given wavelength of light, the ratio of the two sines is also a constant for any angle

law discovered by Willebrod Snell in 1621 explaining the phenomenon of light refraction (i.e. light bends as it passes from one medium into a second medium, as expressed in Snell's formula: NxSIN (A) =MxSIN (B))

Relationship between the path taken by a ray of light as it moves from one medium to another and the refractive indices of the two media. Discovered in 1621 by Willebrord Snell (1580-1626), the law went unpublished until its mention by Christiaan Huygens. If n1 and n2 represent the indices of refraction of two media, and 1 and 2 are the angles of incidence and refraction that a ray of light makes with the line perpendicular to the boundary (the normal), Snell's law states that n1/n2 = sin 2/sin

Descartes law

Etymology

() For Willebrord van Roijen Snell Dutch mathematician