The refractive index is essentially the speed of light through a vacuum (extremely similar to air) divided by the speed of light through given medium.
I also attached some of my physics notes on refraction and that sort of jazz as they may help :)
We all know that a soccer ball is composed of matter, and matter is made up of particles of atoms such as protons and electrons, and matter of soccer ball can also be made up of waves of electrons and protons. This is now in a realm of quantum mechanics were everything defies our logic and common sense. Atoms can be defined as particle and also as a wave, they called it particle wave duality, it means atoms behave as wave and a particle. This is the trickiest part, Imagine that you are not observing the flight of the soccer ball, it actually behave as a wave as it moves in its trajectory, but at the moment that you are going to observe the flight of the soccer ball, it will behave as a particle as you see on its trajectory, becoming a ball or a particle, and that is the weird of part of quantum mechanics, the world of subatomic particles defies all common sense or logic. Remember that we will never see the wave like motion of any particle, because nature always plays a trick on our mind or senses.
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distance - meters
speed - meters/seconds
time - seconds
velocity - meters/seconds
acceleration - meters/seconds²
There are many different types of precipitation —rain, snow, hail, and sleet for example—yet they all have a few things in common. They all come from clouds. They are all forms of water that fall from the sky.
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The process of producing electric energy or the amount of electric energy produced by transforming other forms of energy into electrical energy; commonly expressed in kilowatt-hours (kWh) or megawatt-hours (MWh). Electric power plant efficiency η is defined as the ratio between the useful electricity output from the generating unit, in a specific time, and the energy value of the energy source supplied to the unit in the same time period. For electricity generation based on steam turbines 65% of all prime energy is wasted as heat. The maximum theoretical energy efficiency is defined in more detail by the Rankine cycle. For modern practical systems this is about 40% but less for older generating plant. The efficiency falls still further if fuels with lower energy content such as biomass are used to supply the plant. The economics of power generation based on reciprocating engines depends to a large extent on the use to which the engine is to be put. The cheapest engines available are small petrol-driven engines based on car engines, which are manufactured in large numbers each year.
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