Practice - Refraction of Light
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Practice Questions
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What is refraction?
💡 Hint: Think about how light behaves when it enters water.
What does Snell's Law describe?
💡 Hint: Recall the equation with refractive indices.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the phenomenon of light bending when it passes from one medium to another called?
💡 Hint: It's the term we discussed at the start.
True or False: The refractive index is always greater than 1.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when light enters a vacuum.
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Challenge Problems
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A beam of light enters a diamond (n=2.42) from air (n=1) at an angle of 40 degrees. What will be the angle of refraction in the diamond?
💡 Hint: Remember to rearrange the formula to find sin(θ).
Explain how the principles of refraction are applied in a camera lens to focus light. Include relevant formulas.
💡 Hint: Think about how the focal length changes with different lens shapes.
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