Chapter 34: Refraction
As light changes from one medium to another, it can speed up or or slow down depending on the two media. This change in speed causes the wavelength of light to change. It can also change the direction of travel for the light. This "bending" of light is known as refraction. This chapter deals with a number of aspects of refraction including perceived images, effect on a lens, change in wavelength, and critical angle for total internal reflection.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
- Illustration 34.1: Huygens' Principle and Refraction.
- Illustration 34.2: Fiber Optics.
- Illustration 34.3: Prisms and Dispersion.
Explorations
- Exploration 34.1: Lens and a Changing Index of Refraction.
- Exploration 34.2: Snell's Law and Total Internal Reflection.
- Exploration 34.3: Toward Building a Lens.
- Exploration 34.4: Fermat's Principle and Snell's Law.
- Exploration 34.5: Index of Refraction and Wavelength.
Problems
- Problem 34.1: Find index of refraction, two mediums.
- Problem 34.2: Find index of refraction, one medium.
- Problem 34.3: Where is the image located?
- Problem 34.4: Find index of refraction of a lens.
- Problem 34.5: Size of a fish's world.
- Problem 34.6: Rank the indices of refraction.
- Problem 34.7: Total internal reflection.
- Problem 34.8: Wavefronts on a medium.
- Problem 34.9: Huygens' principle and refraction.
- Problem 34.10: Refraction and colors of light.
