light ray
Example Sentences
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He developed his theory of mechanics by comparing the path of a light ray with the path followed by a moving particle.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
Suppose light were incident from air onto a material that had a negative index of refraction, say –1.3; where does the refracted light ray go?
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Which of the paths more accurately represents how a light ray would travel from point A to point B?
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
As before, the angles are measured relative to a perpendicular to the surface at the point where the light ray crosses it.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
But he had marked the spot from which it had originated, and in another moment he had broken through the tangled branches of the shrubs to the place from which the light ray had come.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
