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What is a mirror reflection in the context of atomic behavior?

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ILEN

Aerospace
Oct 30, 2005
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The thread above kind of touches on the subject.

From what I've read, atoms have 2 modes, emission and absorption. Is a reflection total atomic spontaneous emission? At an angle? What's refraction? I don't understand how reflection and refraction fit into the actual behavior of the atoms and em waves.

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