How come light reflects on windows during the night, but during the day it just passes right through?

Question

In general when you look at a window during night, then the lights of your phone, TV, lamps reflect on the window making it kinda mirror like.

But during the day it just phases right through and reflections are hard to see.

Is this because of the massive amount of light or what?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Light always reflects on Windows, you simply can’t see it during the day because the amount of light coming in from the other side drowns out all/most of the reflected light.

This is the same concept used for one way mirrors, which is simply a pane of glass treated to be very reflective, however these do only work if the interrogation room is brightly light, and the observation room is in gloom/darkness