refraction and another medium with index of refraction . In such situations, Snell's Law describes the resulting deflection of the light ray:

where and are the angles between the normal (to the interface) and the incident and refracted waves, respectively. This phenomenon is also associated with a changing speed of light as seen from the definition of index of refraction provided above which implies:

where and are the wave velocities through the respective media.

Various consequences

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