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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SNELL'S LAW

Named after Willebrord Snell (1591–1626), Dutch physicist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SNELL'S LAW

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNELL'S LAW

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WHAT DOES SNELL'S LAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Snell's law

Snell's law

Snell's law is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water, glass and air. In optics, the law is used in ray tracing to compute the angles of incidence or refraction, and in experimental optics and gemology to find the refractive index of a material. The law is also satisfied in metamaterials, which allow light to be bent "backward" at a negative angle of refraction with a negative refractive index. Although named after Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius, the law was first accurately described by the scientist Ibn Sahl at the Baghdad court in 984. In the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses, Sahl used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations. Snell's law states that the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is equivalent to the ratio of...

Definition of Snell's law in the English dictionary

The definition of Snell's law in the dictionary is the principle that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant when a light ray passes from one medium to another.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SNELL'S LAW


bells
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coralbells
ˈkɒrəlˌbɛlz
Dardanelles
ˌdɑːdəˈnɛlz
hornfels
ˈhɔːnfɛlz
Kells
kɛlz
Welles
wɛlz
Wells
wɛlz
wind-bells
ˈwɪndˌbɛlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNELL'S LAW

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SNELL'S LAW

Avogadro´s law
Boyle´s law
Bragg´s law
Buys Ballot´s law
Coulomb´s law
court of law
Curie-Weiss law
Dalton´s law
Gay-Lussac´s law
Gresham´s law
Henry´s law
Hooke´s law
Hubble´s law
ideal gas law
Lenz´s law
Murphy´s law
Ohm´s law
Parkinson´s law
pass law
Scots law
Sod´s law

Synonyms and antonyms of Snell's law in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Snell's law» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

斯涅耳定律
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Translator English - Spanish

La ley de Snell
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Snell´s law
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्नेल के नियम
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قانون سنيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Закон Снелла
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

A lei de Snell
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Translator English - Bengali

Snell এর আইন
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Translator English - French

La loi de Snell
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Translator English - Malay

Undang-undang Snell
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Snell-Gesetz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スネルの法則
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스넬 의 법칙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hukum Snell
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Định luật Snell
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்னெல்லின் சட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्नेलचा कायदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Snell yasası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Legge di Snell
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Translator English - Polish

Prawo Snella
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Translator English - Ukrainian

Закон Снелла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Legea lui Snell
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Νόμο του Snell
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Snell se wet
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Snells lag
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Snell lov
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNELL'S LAW»

Discover the use of Snell's law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Snell's law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Physics For Dummies
The law that describes how light bends is called Snell's Law. Snell's Law says that when a light ray travels from a material that has the index of refraction n1 at angle θ1 with respect to the normal into a material that has the index of refraction n2 ...
Steve Holzner, 2006
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Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics
A a simple physical derivation is given of the two most important laws, Snell's law and the law of specular reflection. Section B contains a more mathematical treatment of the two laws, a derivation of the various reflection and transmission ...
David T. Blackstock, 2000
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Nondestructive Evaluation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications
Snell's Law (or the continuity-of-phase law) is used to determine the directions of propagation of transmitted and ... Snell's law (derived in Section 3.6.4) is given as sin 9j _ sin 6rs sin 9H sin 9ts sin 9,, v, vrs vrl VB v,, or £ sin 6, = ^ sin 6H = ^ sin ...
Peter J. Shull, 2002
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Engineering Optics
Snell's law is indeed one of the most basic and important laws of optics to-date. The cosecant rather than sine of the angles was used when Snell introduced the law. Descartes attempted to explain Snell's law by using the model that light is a ...
Keigo Iizuka, 2008
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Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems
2.1 Snell's law applied to a ray entering a denser medium (N' >N). 2.2 Snell's Law and the Prism In applying Snell's law to the surfaces of a prism, we notice that a ray passing through the prism is always bent toward the thicker part, the base of ...
Max J. Riedl, 2001
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What is this Thing Called Science?
Suppose Snell's law of refraction of light is tested by some very rough experiments in which very large margins of error are attributed to the measurements of angles of incidence and refraction, and suppose that the results are shown to be ...
Alan Francis Chalmers, 1999
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Fundamental Optical Design
The normal to the surface at the point of intersection of the ray with the surface is denoted by a unit vector a. 3.3 The vector form of Snell's law a The vector product of r and a is, by definition,. Figure 3.4. The vector form of Snell's law. Figure 3.9.
Michael J. Kidger, 2002
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College Physics: Reasoning and Relationships
This relation between the incident and refracted angles is called Snell's law. Table Reflected ray 24.1 lists the indices of refraction for some common substances. Since n is the ratio Incident ray of two speeds (Eq. 24.5), the index of refraction is ...
Nicholas Giordano, 2012
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Optics
The above equation directly gives Snell's law sin 92 p\ i>! In order to understand the explanation of Snell's law of refraction using the corpuscular model, we consider a simple experiment in which a ball moving with a certain speed on a ...
Ajoy Chatak, 2009
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The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and ...
... much lower than c because it is continually interacting with the atoms of the material. What happens to wavefronts of light when they cross a boundary between different media is the subject of Snell's law, which is named for Willebrord Snell.
James S. Trefil, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNELL'S LAW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Snell's law is used in the context of the following news items.
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Circular Rainbows, What Do They Mean?
In the video, I mention a bunch of different sciencey things, including Snell's law (how light bends when it passes from one medium to another, like from air to ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Circular Rainbow over Niagara Falls (Video)
After all, white sunlight enters a raindrop, gets bent and dispersed (broken up into colors) due to Snell's law, reflects off the back of the drop, then gets bent again ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Bend it like a Baghdadi
Both remained unpublished and un-credited during their lifetime but today the law of light bending is known after Snellius as Snell's law. It is after the discovery ... «Bangalore Mirror, May 15»
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Scintillator Detectors with Integrated Nanophotonics for Medical …
According to Snell's law, light can emit from a scintillator when the incident angle is smaller than the critical angle. If we neglect Fresnel reflection, considering an ... «Photonics.com, Apr 15»
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Biological sensing with metamaterials
Snell's law can describe this internal reflection of transverse optical rays that result from diffuse reflection, Rayleigh scattering, or diffraction. Finally, the balance ... «SPIE Newsroom, Sep 14»
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Inhomogeneous surface plasmon polaritons
The analytical arguments are based on a complex generalization of Snell's law to describe how SPPs moving on one metal surface are refracted at an interface ... «Nanowerk, Aug 14»
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Tiny gold bars focus light into graphene
... conductivity than the monolayer graphene, so the wavelength lengthens inside the prism and the SPPs bend away from the normal according to Snell's law. «physicsworld.com, May 14»
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Improved Flaw Detection
Additionally, they built mathematical models based on the Fermat principle, Snell's Law and the angle-dependent phase shift at the interface between probes to ... «Quality Magazine, Feb 14»
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Physicists Pursue the Perfect Lens by Bending Light the Wrong Way
This number, plugged into a thousand-year-old formula known as Snell's Law, gives the angle to which a beam of light bends when it enters the medium. «Wired, Aug 13»
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Why Does This Man's Head Appear Off His Body?
Of course, Snell's law also says there is a relationship between these two angles. Let me assume that the index of refraction in air is 1. This means I can write:. «Wired, Jul 13»

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