Physics GCSE
Reflection
What Reflection means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: OCR
Sends the wave back into the first material at the boundary, as when ultrasound pulses bounce off the boundary between soft tissue and bone or off the seabed in sonar.
Sends part of the wave back, giving an echo for sound or an image for light.
Occurs when electromagnetic waves bounce off a surface or boundary.
Topics that use Reflection
- Reflection of waves (physics only) (AQA GCSE)
- Wave behaviour (OCR GCSE)
- Wave interactions (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- absorption
- transmission
- ageing
- amplitude
- audible range
- Calculations with powers of ten
- Colour of objects in white light and in coloured light
- compressions and rarefactions
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