Concept — Bending of light when passing between media with different refractive indices.
Present in chapters
16
Linked atoms
9 atoms linked.
16 Waves
- Rainbow
- Worked example — Chromatic refractive index
- Sci-fi physics: refractive index less than one
- Refractive index from velocity
- Problem — Critical angle of an optical fibre
- Problem — The fish’s strange sky
- Problem — Why distant sounds are heard at night
- Problem — Apparent depth of a coin
- Refraction and Snell’s law