What's the difference between transmitted and absorbed waves

The light wave could be absorbed by the object, in which case its energy is converted to heat. The light wave could be reflected by the object. And the light wave could be transmitted by the object. ... When this occurs, objects have a tendency to selectively absorb, reflect or transmit light certain frequencies.

Explanation:

luster is not a good characteristic to use by itself because luster is the property of minerals that indicates how much the surface of a mineral reflects light. the luster of a mineral is affected by the brilliance of the light used to observe the mineral surface.

54 degrees incident angle = reflected angle

angle is from normal turned to line of ray