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Why the ray of light bends away normal or towards normal when it passes from one medium to another?
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it deviates its path and meet where water and air surfaces meet.
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When light passes from one medium to another medium in which it travels slower the light is bent away from the normal?
Without getting too complicated, the "more dense medium"'s gravitational pull alters the path of the light. The ray of light will bend away from the normal.
Why does light refact when it passes from air into a glass slab?
When light passes into the slab it is changing medium from less to more dense. When that happens the light slows down and bends towards from the normal
When a light ray passes from one mediumto another at an angle?
when a light ray passes from one medium to another at an angle
Bending of a wave as it passes one medium to another?
Refraction.
The bending of a wave as it passes an angle from one medium to another?
refraction
When light passes from one medium to another medium in which it travels slower the light is bent away from the normal?
Without getting too complicated, the "more dense medium"'s gravitational pull alters the path of the light. The ray of light will bend away from the normal.
Why does light refact when it passes from air into a glass slab?
When light passes into the slab it is changing medium from less to more dense. When that happens the light slows down and bends towards from the normal
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 light does as it passes from one medium to another?
it refracts
When a light ray passes from one mediumto another at an angle?
when a light ray passes from one medium to another at an angle
Bending of a wave as it passes one medium to another?
Refraction.
The bending of a wave as it passes an angle from one medium to another?
refraction
When light would refract?
If one considers reflective indicies, if the reflective index of the second medium (n2) is larger than the first (n1), the ray bends towards the normal. This means that n2 > n1Since n is defined as c/v, we know that the speed of light is greater in the first medium. Thus, when light changes speed from fast to slow, it bends towards the normal.
What is the name for a change in direction of a wave when it passes from one medium into another?
refraction
When speed passes from one medium wave to another what happens?
it changes in velocity
What is the bending of a wave called when it passes at an angle from one medium to another?
Refraction
What happens when light passes through one medium to another?
the light bends
