- Transparency and transmission
- Main features
- Examples
- The 12 most prominent transparent materials
- Difference between transparent objects and other materials
- References
The transparent objects are those that allow light to pass through these. Depending on the density of the molecules of the materials, the amount of light that can pass varies. This determines whether a material is opaque, transparent, or translucent.
Translucent and transparent objects are those that light can pass through, only that an object is said to be translucent when the light passes partially and transparent if it passes completely.
Compared to transparent objects, opaque objects do not allow light to pass through.
The lower the light absorption capacity of an object, the more defined its shadow will be.
Materials such as air, water, and glass are examples of transparent objects, since when light encounters them, almost all of it passes through them.
Transparent materials are what allow light to pass completely through. They appear uncluttered, with the overall appearance of a single color or any combination that leads to a bright spectrum of all colors.
Transparency and transmission
An object is transparent, opaque or translucent depending on what happens to the light waves when they encounter those objects: if they pass through them or if they bounce.
When a wave of light hits the surface of an object a variety of things can happen. One of these is called resonance.
When resonance occurs between a light wave and an object, the object absorbs the energy from that light wave. The light energy stays inside the object when the resonance is generated.
An object is said to be transparent when light passes through it without being scattered or scattered.
Although light travels through these materials, it is known to also block certain elements such as wind, sound waves, and the movements of animals and people.
Light waves are absorbed by an object when the frequency of the light wave combines with the resonant frequency of the object.
Absorption occurs when none of those light waves are transmitted through the object. An object looks transparent because light waves pass through without undergoing any change.
Basically transmission just means that electromagnetic waves pass through a material.
In the case of objects that are transparent, all light waves pass through them. Transparent elements exhibit complete transmission of light waves through the object.
When a wave of light hits the surface of the glass it causes the electrons to vibrate at a certain frequency.
The vibrations pass from the surface atoms to neighboring atoms and then to more atoms through the thickness of the glass. The frequency does not change when the vibrations pass from one object to another.
For that reason, once energy enters the other side of the glass, it is emitted to the opposite surface.
The light wave actually passes through the glass without undergoing any change. As a result you can see completely through the glass, almost as if you weren't there.
That's the explanation: transparency occurs by the transmission of light waves through the thickness of an object.
Main features
- It is a material in which light can pass completely.
- As a result of the light being able to pass through completely, you can see clearly through these objects. For that reason they are also called crystalline objects.
- The color of these materials depends on the kind of light that each material emits.
- An object on the other side of this material is clearly visible to the human eye.
Examples
The concept of transparency can be exemplified as follows:
You have a glass goblet with red wine. A torch of light is concentrated in the cup and the light passes through it. Because of this, the color of the wine is also visible.
This is because all the colors of the light spectrum are reflected by the glass, so it follows that the glass is transparent.
The 12 most prominent transparent materials
- Glass.
- Water.
- Windows
- Fish tanks.
- Camera lenses.
- Computer screen.
- Prism.
- Spectacle lenses.
- Hourglass.
- Resins
- Cellophane.
- Sapphires
Difference between transparent objects and other materials
An object is transparent, translucent or opaque depending on its density and the amount of light that can pass through it.
Because opaque objects have a higher density, light cannot pass through them. This makes opaque materials non-transparent or impossible to see through.
On the other hand, translucent and transparent materials do allow light to pass through because the density of their molecules is lower.
The difference between these two types of materials is that transparent objects allow light to pass through completely without being scattered or speckled, while translucent elements allow light to partially pass through.
It can be said that the light absorption capacity of opaque objects is zero, that of translucent objects is medium and that of transparent objects is total.
References
- Difference between translucent, transparent and opaque materials. Recovered from scienstruck.com
- Transparent and opaque materials in eletromagnetic waves. Recovered from study.com
- Tramsparent, opaque and translucent objects (2014). Recovered from prezi.com
- What are transparent, translucent and opaque materials? Recovered from nextgurukul.in
- Transparent materials. Recovered from wikipedia.org