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What Do You Mean by the Term Refraction?

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What do you mean by the term refraction?
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Refraction is the bending of light at the surface of separation, which takes when it passes from one optical medium to another optical medium with different optical densities.
 
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Chapter 2: Light - Exercise 2.1 i [Page 88]

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Frank Physics Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 2 Light
Exercise 2.1 i | Q 1 | Page 88

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