Phenomena Related to Refraction

If you try to spear a fish that you could see in a lake, where should you aim your spear?

APPARENT DEPTH

We know that light travels in straight lines.

Therefore, _______________________________

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Our eyes extend the refracted light rays backwards, forming a ______________________
of the chest.

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MIRAGES

Mirages are caused by ____________________________________________________

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E.g. when you see puddles ahead on a hot highway

The road ____________ up the air above it, while the air higher up remains ___________.

Since the air molecules are farther apart in hot air, the ________________ is lower. This
makes ________________________________________________________________.

The farther away from the road, ____________________________________________

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Rays of light coming toward the road gradually refracts further from the normal, bending
away from the road.

Once a ray is incident at an angle that is ______________ than the critical angle it will
_____________________________________.

The light will then travel away from the road, eventually entering your eye.

Our brains interpret the light that enters our eye as _____________________________
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The image of the pool of water is therefore an _________________________________

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DISPERSION OF LIGHT and RAINBOWS

Since ______________ light is a mixture of all colors (ROYGBIV), the colors appear when
light refracts through a medium such as glass.

This occurs because ______________________________________________________

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Why are rainbows typically seen as a storm is leaving, if you look in the direction of the
departing rain with the sun at your back?
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Our eyes project the rays that enter our eyes

behind the raindrop, producing a
______________________ image.

Each drop disperses a full spectrum of light, but

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When we see a rainbow, we are seeing the refraction of light ______________________

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What makes a double Rainbow?

The secondary bow arises from _____________

_________________________..... Its always
_______________ in the sky, and the colors are
___________________________.