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Refraction Actions

When light passes into less dense mediums, it speed up. In this case the waves bend away from the Normal:

refraction of a ray of light from water to air

As the angle of incidence increases in the diagram above, the refracted ray gets closer to the surface of the water. This can lead to a very interesting effect...


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