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Can a surface be polished for some waves and not for

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Can a surface be considered polished for some waves and not for others? Give an example.

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Can a surface be considered polished for some waves and not for others? Give an example.

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When light is incident to a rough (irregular ) surface with elevations, light is reflected from this surface in all directions; this is called diffuse reflection. For a certain wavelength of light, a surface is considered to be polished if the gap between two elevations is less than one eighth of that wavelength.

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