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Light typically travels in a straight line through a uniform medium. However, if the medium's density changes, light can be refracted and its path curved. Additionally, light can be reflected, diffracted, or scattered depending on the properties of the medium it is passing through.
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
Light slows down when going through a medium. This is not to say that the speed of light, c, slows down. It doesn't - c remains constant - rather the light bounces randomly around the medium on its way to its destination, which increases the time it takes for the light to traverse through the medium.
"air", "water" "glass" - generically a medium.
travels through a uniform medium
Light typically travels in a straight line through a uniform medium. However, if the medium's density changes, light can be refracted and its path curved. Additionally, light can be reflected, diffracted, or scattered depending on the properties of the medium it is passing through.
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
The speed of light is dependent on the medium it travels through. Light travels fastest in a vacuum than in water or air.
Light travels at a constant speed of 299,792,458 meters per second in a vacuum. However, as light travels through different mediums, it slows down depending on the medium. The crazy thing about light though, is that if it leaves a medium and starts travelling back through a vacuum, it once again goes 299,792,458 meters per second.
Light does that.
In general, light propagates at c, the speed of light (that is, 299,792,458m/s), however when travelling through a medium such as an optical fibre, this will decrease, but will still travel at a constant speed dependent upon values such as the materials permittivity and permeability. Light travels easiest through insulating mediums, and cannot travel far through conductors.
Any change in the refractive index of the medium through which the light is travelling causes refraction of light.
Light travels through a vacuum, and through the densest metals (though not usually very far). But then gamma radiation and radio waves are examples of light...
travels through a uniform medium
Light slows down when going through a medium. This is not to say that the speed of light, c, slows down. It doesn't - c remains constant - rather the light bounces randomly around the medium on its way to its destination, which increases the time it takes for the light to traverse through the medium.
"air", "water" "glass" - generically a medium.
travels through a uniform medium