Brewster angle and Fresnel reflection
What you are seeing: a light ray incident on an interface between two media at angle . Snell s law gives the refraction angle; Fresnel coefficients give and . At Brewster angle the p-reflectance vanishes; at the critical angle (when ) TIR sets in
theta_i (deg)50.0
medium 1 (top)water
medium 2 (bottom)air
animation speed0
theta_i (deg):--
theta_B (deg):--
theta_c (deg):--
R_s:--
R_p:--
----------WHAT TO TRY
- Vary each control and watch the rail readouts respond.
- Compare the diagnostic plot against the live scene.