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  2. Atmospheric optics ray-tracing codes - Wikipedia

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    The 46° halo was first explained as being caused by refractions through ice crystals in 1679 by the French physicist Edmé Mariotte (1620–1684) in terms of light refraction [1] Jacobowitz in 1971 was the first to apply the ray-tracing technique to hexagonal ice crystal. Wendling et al. (1979) extended Jacobowitz's work from hexagonal ice ...

  3. Stokes relations - Wikipedia

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    A reflection of the incoming field (E) is transmitted at the dielectric boundary to give rE and tE (where r and t are the amplitude reflection and transmission coefficients, respectively). Since there is no absorption this system is reversible, as shown in the second picture (where the direction of the beams has been reversed).

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  5. Angle of incidence (optics) - Wikipedia

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    The angle of reflection and angle of refraction are other angles related to beams. In computer graphics and geography , the angle of incidence is also known as the illumination angle of a surface with a light source, such as the Earth 's surface and the Sun . [ 1 ]

  6. Fresnel equations - Wikipedia

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    In the absence of Doppler shifts, ω does not change on reflection or refraction. Hence, by ( 2 ), the magnitude of the wave vector is proportional to the refractive index. So, for a given ω , if we redefine k as the magnitude of the wave vector in the reference medium (for which n = 1 ), then the wave vector has magnitude n 1 k in the first ...

  7. Seismic wide-angle reflection and refraction - Wikipedia

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    In comparison to the typical seismic reflection survey, which is restricted to relatively small incidence angles due to the limited offsets between source and receiver, wide-angle reflection and refraction (WARR) data are acquired with long offsets, allowing the recording of both refracted and wide-angle reflection arrivals.

  8. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, or diffuse reflection spectroscopy, is a subset of absorption spectroscopy. It is sometimes called remission spectroscopy . Remission is the reflection or back-scattering of light by a material, while transmission is the passage of light through a material.

  9. Ray (optics) - Wikipedia

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    The angle between this ray and the normal is known as the angle of refraction, and it is given by Snell's law. Conservation of energy requires that the power in the incident ray must equal the sum of the power in the refracted ray, the power in the reflected ray, and any power absorbed at the surface.