Reflectivity

At small angles of incident light, waviness results in reduced reflectivity because of the steepness of the reflectivity-vs.

However, glass by itself has little reflectivity, so people began coating it with metals to increase the reflectivity.

More complex designs using multiple layers can achieve low reflectivity over a broad band, or extremely low reflectivity at a single wavelength.

Hence, the final disposal orbit must meet specific criteria on the minimum raise in perigee altitude depending on the object's reflectivity, mass, shape, and size.

Painter said the snow’s high reflectivity slowed the initial melting.

Ensure price transparency and cost reflectivity, while ensuring a reasonable rate of return for metering service providers.

In my experience, the improved anti-reflectivity of Gorilla Armor also makes the blacks look better without affecting the color vibrancy.

But SpaceX argues it has taken steps to reduce the satellites’ reflectivity and is testing an experimental darkening treatment on one of the satellites.

It depends upon the reflectivity of Earth.

On Wednesday 11th October 2017, the then Minister of Energy David Mabumba, announced in Parliament policy measures that were being taken to migrate electricity tariffs to cost-reflectivity for all customer categories including CEC.

Spread these beads across strategic areas of Arctic ice, Field thought, and more of it might survive through the summers, keeping reflectivity high and short-circuiting that vicious ice-albedo feedback loop.

From the power sector perspective, cost reflectivity is attained when the tariff is able to recover all the allowable costs of each regulated and licensed activity within the generation, transmission, distribution and supply value chain.

That’s the reason reflectivity went from ~20-30% for ordinary silicon to ~5% with Black Silicon.

A CD-RW does not have as great a difference in reflectivity as a pressed CD or a CD-R, and so many earlier CD audio players cannot read CD-RW discs, although most later CD audio players and stand-alone DVD players can.

After this breakdown, the amount of light energy transfer can be computed by using the known reflectivity of the reflecting patch, combined with the view factor of the two patches.

Albedo is derived from Latin albedo "whiteness" (or reflected sunlight) in turn from albus "white", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

Because light specularly reflected from water does not usually reach the viewer, water is usually considered to have a very low albedo in spite of its high reflectivity at high angles of incident light.

Because of the poor reflectivity of the speculum mirrors of that day, Herschel eliminated the small diagonal mirror of a standard newtonian reflector from his design and tilted his primary mirror so he could view the formed image directly.

CD-RW discs have lower reflectivity than CD-R or pressed (non-writable) CDs and for this reason cannot meet the Red Book standard (or come close).

Certain patterns of reflectivity are important clues for the meteorologist as well.