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3 years ago

What causes light to bend when it moves from one transparent medium to another?

Physics

2 answers:

Kay [80]3 years ago

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Answer:

A change in speed

Explanation:

Light bends when it moves at a particular angle into a medium that has a different refractive index than the one it was coming from.

This bending is as a result of the change in speed of light as it enters the medium with a different refractive index.

This action is known as Refraction of light.

Refraction depends on the change in speed of light as it changes media and the angle of refraction depends on the angle of incidence of the ray of light and the refractive index of the material.

lapo4ka [179]3 years ago

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Whenever light goes from transparent to another medium or from rarer to denser medium or vice versa, it's speed changes and hence light bends.

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