Understanding the terms translucent vs. transparent
2017年3月3日 · The Wikipedia article on Transparency and Translucency says essentially the same thing but with more detail. In other words, a translucent medium allows the transport of …
optics - What is the difference between the words transparent and ...
This is an example of how diffusion causes translucency: As light passes through a translucent object, it either enters or exists a rough surface that causes light to reflect and refract at a …
What determines how transparent a material is?
2020年2月28日 · The opposite property of translucency is opacity. Basically this part of your question is about the material being translucent or opaque. The answer to this question is that …
optics - Why is water clear? - Physics Stack Exchange
However, there is one last piece to the water transparency (in visible light) jigsaw that I don't believe has been talked about and that is water is a liquid. This means it can't be rivven with …
optics - What is the connection between the refractive index of a ...
2017年5月3日 · Firstly, the refractive index is not the only factor that sets transparency or otherwise. Witness the examples of sheet ice and snow: a material's internal structure is also …
What is difference between transmission and transparency?
2018年9月11日 · In that excerpt, does 'transmission' mean 'transparency'? I don't think so, but, I'd like to know exactly difference between transmission and transparency. Also, in that sentence, …
optics - Refractile vs translucent - Physics Stack Exchange
2016年11月6日 · The opposite property of translucency is opacity. Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant …
Why does paper become translucent when smeared with oil but …
When I smear oil onto a scrap of paper and rub it in, the paper becomes quite translucent; but when I attempt the same with water it doesn't as much.
Why is visible light used in Optical fibers (instead of other EM …
The total internal reflection picture of an optical fiber is a geometric optics construct that only applies for high frequencies (i.e. visible light, wavelength much smaller than fiber cross section).
Transparency of solids using bandgaps and relation to conduction …
But transparency is based on photon interaction with these energy levels. This naievely suggests that insulators are more likely to be transparent. But this is not always true. What am I missing …