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Question
A light ray suffers reflection and refraction at the boundary in passing from air to water. Draw a neat labelled ray diagram to show it.
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Solution
Air is a rarer medium, while water is denser than air. Therefore, when a light ray travels from air to water, it will bend towards the normal.
Refraction from rarer to denser medium
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