Try not to imagine light as like a Baseball that slows down as it hits a denser medium (like water), and then (seemingly impossibly) speeding up as it goes back to a less dense medium (like air).
Light should instead be viewed as an electromagnetic wave, a wave that can be altered by the charged particles within a medium. How that EM wave is altered depends on the frequency with which the wave is vibrating and the nature of the charged particles in the medium.
When you do the calculations rigorously, you find that water molecules will cause this wave to propogate less slowly. When it leaves the water into air, almost no charged particles exist to alter the speed of propogation of this wave -- it instead travels at the speed Maxwell said such an EM wave would propogate.
When light with wavelength of 589 nanometers moves through water at the temperature of 20° C, its speed is 75% of the speed of light in vacuum.
The speed of light depends on the electrical properties of whatever substance it's in. It has nothing to do with what substance it used to be in before, or what substance it's going into next. -- If it goes from air into vacuum, its speed increases. -- If it goes from air into water, its speed decreases. -- If it goes from water into air, its speed increases. -- If it goes from water into diamond or jello, its speed decreases.
No. Light slows down whenever it passes through water. Nothing is faster than the speed of light in a vaccum.
That would depend what it enters from. If the light is transitioning from air to water,its speed decreases. If it's going from jello to water, its speed increases.
The speed of light is greater in a vacuum compared to in water. In a vacuum, light travels at its maximum speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second, while in water it slows down to about 225,000 kilometers per second.
When light with wavelength of 589 nanometers moves through water at the temperature of 20° C, its speed is 75% of the speed of light in vacuum.
No, light does not speed up in water, it slows down.
Yes it is true. If c is the speed of light in air then in water it will be 3/4 of c Hence refractive index of water = speed of light in air/speed of light in water So refractive index = 4/3 = 1.333
The speed of light depends on the electrical properties of whatever substance it's in. It has nothing to do with what substance it used to be in before, or what substance it's going into next. -- If it goes from air into vacuum, its speed increases. -- If it goes from air into water, its speed decreases. -- If it goes from water into air, its speed increases. -- If it goes from water into diamond or jello, its speed decreases.
No. Light slows down whenever it passes through water. Nothing is faster than the speed of light in a vaccum.
Yes, light moves slower through water than through air because water has a higher refractive index than air. This causes light to bend more when it enters water, resulting in a slower speed.
Light travels through water at a speed of about 225,000 kilometers per second, which is approximately 25% slower than its speed in a vacuum.
Light is refracted by a discontinuity in the refractive index of the medium ... by going from one medium into another one where the speed of light is different.
It slows from c to c/n where n is the refractive index of water
That would depend what it enters from. If the light is transitioning from air to water,its speed decreases. If it's going from jello to water, its speed increases.
Light slows down in water because it interacts with the molecules in the water, causing it to change direction and speed. This interaction results in a decrease in the speed of light as it travels through the water.
The light refracts due to the change in speed. The change in speed occurs because the light is travelling through a denser medium. So it will travel fastest through the air and slowest through the glass