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Theres another physical term for this. It's not reflection. Too stupid to remember myself.

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Well, I learned that in my German physics class so I assumed itd be the same for the Englishman

Edit: should be called scattering

Well it is reflection for things which gets thrown back with same angle as incident angle and the post here is referring to it.