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What is maximum angle of refraction when light passes from denser to rarer medium?
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Why the ray of light does not bend when it passes perpendicularly from rarer medium to denser medium?
Since the angle of incidence is 0, there is no chance of refraction and so the angle of refraction too becomes 0.
What is emergent ray in refraction of light?
The emergent ray is the ray of light which passes through a denser medium(glass) to a rarer medium(air).
Why does a stick dipped in water appears to be bent?
Light bends when it passes at an angle into a medium of a different density. When light passes from a less dense medium into a denser medium, like from space into Earth's atmosphere or from air into water, it bends toward the normal, which is an imaginary line perpendicular to the boundary between the two media where the light passes through. Light passing from a denser medium to a less dense medium bends away from the normal.
Is the angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction when light passes from a less dense to denser medium?
If you meant optical density by the term 'denser ' Then the answer is.... The light bends towards normal when it travels from a optically less dense medium to optically dense medium. So angle of incidence is greater than the angle of refraction
What is refraction of a wave?
It means that the wave changes direction when it passes from one medium to another - for example, from air to water, or from denser air to less dense air.
Can you give me an example of a sentence using the word refraction and medium?
" The light is bent by refraction, caused by the medium through which it passes"
Bending of a wave as it passes one medium to another?
Refraction.
The tendency of a wave to bend as it passes from one transparent medium to another is called?
The bending of light rays as they ener a new medium is called refraction.
When a passes from a less dense medium to a denser one most of the wave energy is?
When a wave passes from a less dense medium to a denser one, most of the wave energy is answer is reflected FALSE
The bending of a wave as it passes an angle from one medium to another?
refraction
When light passes from a medium with a high index of refraction into a medium with a lower index of refraction which direction does the light bend?
A medium with a higher index of refraction, like diamond, is more dense than the medium with a lower index of refraction, like air. If the ray of light is moving from the less dense medium (lower index of refraction), to a more dense (higher index of refraction) the ray of light bends TOWARDS the normal.
What does light bend when it passes from air into glass?
refraction
