Answer to Question #177535 in Physics for Chaihcai

Question

REFRACTION OF LIGHT

1. Get a glass half-filled with water.

2. Place a pencil in this glass of water

3. Look at the pencil at the top of the glass. What happens to the pencil?

4. Look from the side of the glass. Do you notice any difference?

5. Remove the pencil out of the water. Is there a difference between the way it looks in water and the way it looks in

air?

6. How can refraction of light explain some phenomena that we see around us?

Answer 1

3. Nothing happened to the pencil.

4. Yes, the pencil is kind of broken apart

5. When it is half in water and half in air, it looks like these parts are of different object. Completely in the air it looks whole

6. It can explain the way we see objects depending on the refractive index of the medium where the objects are.