That image results from light rays encountering the shiny surface and bouncing back, or reflecting, providing a "mirror image." People commonly think of the reflection as being reversed left to ...

As showing how far under favourable conditions the reflection of light from a cloudy sky is visible, I may perhaps be allowed to mention that last night at nine o'clock the reflection of the ...

A LIGHT wave, when reflected 1 at the surface of separation of two media, may be altered in amplitude, or wavelength, or phase. Whilst, however, a change of amplitude or wave-length produces an ...