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Wave reflection

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Wave reflection returns part of an incident wave into the medium from which it arrived, as a consequence of an interface or spatial variation of material properties. An amplitude reflection coefficient compares the reflected and incident waves; its squared modulus gives their wave intensity ratio when both use the same medium and normalization. Reflected energy has not necessarily undergone wave absorption.

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