Combined Science GCSE
incident ray
What incident ray means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of incident ray
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Reference: AQA
The ray drawn meeting the point where the boundary is crossed, before the wave passes into the second medium.
Topics that use incident ray
- Properties of electromagnetic waves 1 (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Absorption
- Control variables
- Emission
- Infrared radiation
- Refraction
- Direction of bending relative to the normal
- normal
- Reflection
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