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Quote: refraction, the bending of light, comes about because the speed of light is different in different materials; the only way for waves to fit at a boundary is to change the angle; yields Snell's law
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… we should understand that all that is required … The bending of light rays comes about just … From the figure we can see that the … [on either side of the boundary] to "fit" properly at the boundary is for the waves … the geometry of the figure you can see … Snell's law. Google-1 Google-2
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