3anson opened this issue on Dec 29, 2011 ยท 16 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 29 December 2011 at 12:57 PM
Everybody who wants to understand Fresnel effect must read this until it is memorized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations
Of particular note about this latest point:
Quote - For common glass, the reflection coefficient is about 4%. Note that reflection by a window is from the front side as well as the back side, and that some of the light bounces back and forth a number of times between the two sides. The combined reflection coefficient for this case is 2R/(1 + R), when interference can be neglected
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