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Refraction and Magnification

Refraction

Refraction

As the light is reflected off the pencil we see that, due to the different refraction indexes of water and air, the pencil appears to bend in the water. However, the pencil is straight. It is actually the water acting much like a lens in a microscope that gives it the appearance of bending.

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