In still water you can see your clear image. When an object is thrown into the water, the image is distor?

In still water you can see your clear image. When an object is thrown into the water, the image is distorted. Why?In still water you can see your clear image. When an object is thrown into the water, the image is distor?
Because teh surface of the water is now curved and the light reflects off it at an angleIn still water you can see your clear image. When an object is thrown into the water, the image is distor?
Put simply, the reflected light is scattered. As the ripples travel across the incident rays of light, they will create transient variations in the angles of reflected light. Now image that the ripples are static, frozen in place, thereby creating a fixed wavy surface... depending upon the angle of incident light, this scenario is not unlike a fun-house mirror where the mirrors' curves cause the reflected image to look longer and thin, shorter and wide, etc.
Because the water is moved; the 'face' that the surface is reflecting is at a different place: its not flat facing you, so your face isn't reflected into t. Get it? :) Hope this helps :)


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Still water just reflects the image.When distorted image too according to the ripples developed.