Question

When light travels from an optically denser medium to an optically rarer medium, how does the refracted ray bend?

Options

• Away from the normal.

• Back into the denser medium.

• Along the normal.

• Towards the normal.

Answer 1

The refracted ray bends away from the normal during a denser-to-rarer transition. Consequently, the angle of refraction is greater than the angle of incidence.