Reflection, Refraction & Total Internal Reflection
Try this: Send light from water into air. Find the angle where it stops escaping.
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About this simulation
Send a wave at a boundary and watch it split: one ray back, one ray on, and one rule deciding both.
Taught in Reflection & Refraction
- Snell's law
- total internal reflection
- refractive index
- dispersion
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