Snell's law

Summary

Snell's law ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,218 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• Snell's law's image is recorded as Fénytörés.jpg^[2].
• Snell's law's image is recorded as Snells law wavefronts.gif^[3].
• Willebrord Snellius is named after Snell's law^[4].
• Snell's law's subclass of is recorded as scientific law^[5].
• Snell's law's Commons category is recorded as Snell's law^[6].
• Snell's law's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bsz1^[7].
• Snell's law's main subject is recorded as refractive index^[8].
• Snell's law's PSH ID is recorded as 3446^[9].
• Snell's law's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Snells-law^[10].
• Snell's law's defining formula is recorded as \frac{\sin\theta_1}{\sin\theta_2} = \frac{v_1}{v_2} = \frac{\lambda_1}{\lambda_2} = \frac{n_2}{n_1}^[11].
• Snell's law's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3588190^[12].
• Snell's law's Quora topic ID is recorded as Snells-Law^[13].
• Snell's law's WikiSkripta article ID is recorded as 49071^[14].
• Snell's law's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Snells_lov^[15].
• Snell's law's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 136777^[16].
• Snell's law's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["PhysicalEffect", "SnellsLaw"]^[17].
• Snell's law's World of Physics ID is recorded as SnellsLaw^[18].
• Snell's law's Larousse ID is recorded as images/Lois_de_Descartes/1003505^[19].
• Snell's law's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics^[20].
• Snell's law's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 90081545^[21].
• Snell's law's Brilliant Wiki ID is recorded as snells-law^[22].
• Snell's law's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Snell-Descartes_Law^[23].
• Snell's law's Lex ID is recorded as Snells_lov^[24].
• Snell's law's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C90081545^[25].
• Snell's law's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/snells-law^[26].

Why It Matters

Snell's law ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,218 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]