Friday, August 30, 2013

REFECT unlike ECHO

Echo as a layman will define, "is when you are in an empty room and you shout to the room and the room shout back to you." also a layman will define

Reflect as "when you stand in front of a mirror and the mirror draw your complete self just the way you are.

Interesting to get the layman view of both definition but let see what echo and reflect truly is:

Echo or echoes is a reflection of sound, getting to  the listener some time after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or by the walls of an enclosed room and an empty room. A true echo is a single reflection of the sound source. The time delay is the extra distance divided by the speed of sound. 

Reflect or reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves. The law of reflection says that the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected. Mirrors exhibit specular reflection.

In acoustics, reflection causes echoes and is used in sonar.  n geology, it is important in the study of seismic waves. Reflection is observed with surface waves in bodies of water. Reflection is observed with many types of electromagnetic wave, besides visible light.

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