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Snell's Law of Refraction (Wave Fronts)

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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 (March 2011)
Suggested by: Stephen Wolfram
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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