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Refraction of Light

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The pole used by the boatman to push his boat along looks as if it were broken just where it enters the water; this impression is caused by the fact that rays of light bend when they go from the air into water, or vice versa. Notice, however, that this ‘broken stick’ by no means represents the image of the broken ray of light, for the latter is bent in just the opposite direction. The connection between the two is seen in Fig. 36.

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Minnaert, M. (1993). Refraction of Light. In: Light and Color in the Outdoors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2722-9_3

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