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water's surface. This is due to the bending of light rays as they move from the water to the air. Once the rays reach the eye, the eye traces them back as straight lines (lines of sight). The lines of sight (shown as dashed lines) intersect at a higher position than where the actual rays originated. This causes the pencil to appear higher and the water to appear shallower than it really is.
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Common explanations for this slowing, based upon the idea of light scattering from, or being absorbed and re-emitted by atoms, are both incorrect. Explanations like these would cause a "blurring" effect in the resulting light, as it would no longer be travelling in just one direction. But this effect
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when hot and cold air is mixed e.g. over a fire, in engine exhaust, or when opening a window on a cold day. This makes objects viewed through the mixed air appear to shimmer or move around randomly as the hot and cold air moves. This effect is also visible from normal variations in air temperature
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will change. If the speed is decreased, such as in the figure to the right, the wavelength will also decrease. With an angle between the wave fronts and the interface and change in distance between the wave fronts the angle must change over the interface to keep the wave fronts intact. From these
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Consider a wave going from one material to another where its speed is slower as in the figure. If it reaches the interface between the materials at an angle one side of the wave will reach the second material first, and therefore slow down earlier. With one side of the wave going slower the whole
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It results from the boundary conditions which the incoming and the transmitted wave need to fulfill at the boundary between the two media. Essentially, the tangential components of the wave vectors need to be identical, as otherwise the phase difference between the waves at the boundary would be
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Refraction occurs when light goes through a water surface since water has a refractive index of 1.33 and air has a refractive index of about 1. Looking at a straight object, such as a pencil in the figure here, which is placed at a slant, partially in the water, the object appears to bend at the
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and also explains why waves on a shoreline tend to strike the shore close to a perpendicular angle. As the waves travel from deep water into shallower water near the shore, they are refracted from their original direction of travel to an angle more normal to the shoreline.
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occurs, in which different coloured components of the white light are refracted at different angles, i.e., they bend by different amounts at the interface, so that they become separated. The different colors correspond to different frequencies and different wavelengths.
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is slower in a medium other than vacuum. This slowing applies to any medium such as air, water, or glass, and is responsible for phenomena such as refraction. When light leaves the medium and returns to a vacuum, and ignoring any effects of
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from a region of one sound speed to a region of a different speed. The amount of ray bending is dependent on the amount of difference between sound speeds, that is, the variation in temperature, salinity, and pressure of the water. Similar
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position-dependent, and the wavefronts could not be continuous. As the magnitude of the wave vector depends on the refractive index of the medium, the said condition can in general only be fulfilled with different propagation directions.
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2D simulation: refraction of a quantum particle. The black half of the background is zero potential, the gray half is a higher potential. White blur represents the probability distribution of finding a particle in a given place if
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emits electromagnetic waves of its own. The electromagnetic waves emitted by the oscillating electrons interact with the electromagnetic waves that make up the original light, similar to water waves on a pond, a process known as
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is slowed before the other. This asymmetrical slowing of the light causes it to change the angle of its travel. Once light is within the new medium with constant properties, it travels in a straight line
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when going into a slower material. In the opposite case of a wave reaching a material where the speed is higher, one side of the wave will speed up and the wave will pivot away from that side.
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also experience refraction. How much a wave is refracted is determined by the change in wave speed and the initial direction of wave propagation relative to the direction of change in speed.
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from the surface because it will make the target fish appear to be in a different place, and the fisher must aim lower to catch the fish. Conversely, an object above the water has a higher
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Another way of understanding the same thing is to consider the change in wavelength at the interface. When the wave goes from one material to another where the wave has a different speed
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to be identical on the two sides of the interface. Since the magnitude of the wave vector depend on the wave speed this requires a change in direction of the wave vector.
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Light slows as it travels through a medium other than vacuum (such as air, glass or water). This is not because of scattering or absorption. Rather it is because, as an
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A wave traveling perpendicular to a boundary, i.e. having its wavefronts parallel to the boundary, will not change direction even if the speed of the wave changes.
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in the atmosphere has been known for centuries. Beginning in the early 1970s, widespread analysis of this effect came into vogue through the designing of urban
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which can be seen as the truer speed of a wave, but when they differ it is important to use the phase velocity in all calculations relating to refraction.
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When a wave moves into a slower medium the wavefronts get compressed. For the wavefronts to stay connected at the boundary the wave must change direction.
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Water waves are almost parallel to the beach when they hit it because they gradually refract towards land as the water gets shallower.
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A pencil part immersed in water looks bent due to refraction: the light waves from X change direction and so seem to originate at Y.
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also oscillate but as they are around 2000 times more massive, their movement and therefore their effect, is far smaller). A moving
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to another. The redirection can be caused by the wave's change in speed or by a change in the medium. Refraction of
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A correct explanation of refraction involves two separate parts, both a result of the wave nature of light.
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Rainbows are formed by dispersion of light, in which the refraction angle depends on the light's frequency.
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wave will pivot towards that side. This is why a wave will bend away from the surface or toward the
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Air temperature variations close to the surface can give rise to other optical phenomena, such as
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The phenomenon of refraction can in a more fundamental way be derived from the 2 or 3-dimensional
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The sun appears slightly flattened when close to the horizon due to refraction in the atmosphere.
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A pen partially submerged in a bowl of water appears bent due to refraction at the water surface.
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Refraction of light at the interface between two media of different refractive indices, with
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Temperature variations in the air can also cause refraction of light. This can be seen as a
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of light, and thus the angle of the refraction also varies correspondingly. This is called
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and for the splitting of white light into a rainbow-spectrum as it passes through a glass
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and is often limiting the image quality in these cases. In a similar way, atmospheric
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Dill, Lawrence M. (1977). "Refraction and the spitting behavior of the archerfish (
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is approached, albeit the image also fades from view as this limit is approached.
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travel slower in shallower water. This can be used to demonstrate refraction in
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The depth that the water appears to be when viewed from above is known as the
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when viewed from below the water. The opposite correction must be made by an
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are presented to determine which provides the sharpest, clearest vision.
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is refracted and bent by many differing three-dimensional drops of water.
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is the most commonly observed phenomenon, but other waves such as
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When light enters a slower medium at an angle, one side of the
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For small angles of incidence (measured from the normal, when
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limiting the resolution of terrestrial telescopes not using
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of a material is more often used than the wave phase speed
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effects of bending of sound rays in the lower atmosphere.
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is a medical procedure to treat common vision disorders.
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of the wave will stay the same, but the distance between
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in the material. They are directly related through the
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Physical phenomenon relating to the direction of waves
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to be prescribed. A series of test lenses in graded
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A correct explanation rests on light's nature as an
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to divide white light into its constituent spectral
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Index

Refractive
Refractory metals
Refractory
Diffraction

physics
wave
medium
light
sound waves
water waves
Snell's law
angle of incidence
angle of refraction
phase velocities
refractive indices

prisms
lenses
human eye
wavelength
dispersion
prisms
rainbows
colors


electromagnetic oscillation
electrically charged
electrons

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