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Light travels at different speeds through different materials, causing it to bend according to Snell's law. Here light is represented by traveling wave fronts coming from a light source above the boundary between two materials.

Contributed by: Todd Rowland
Suggested by: Stephen Wolfram

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"Snell's Law of Refraction (Wave Fronts)" from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SnellsLawOfRefractionWaveFronts/

Contributed by: Todd Rowland

Suggested by: Stephen Wolfram

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