Refraction of Waves

Why would a wave change direction?

• Because it kept traveling through the same medium
• Because it went from one medium to another
• the amplitude was too large
• the frequency was too small

• Reflection
• Refraction

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• Reflection
• Refraction

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Light bending as it passes through a rain drop is an example of...

• Refraction
• Reflection

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A student placed a pencil in a cup of water.  The pencil appears broken because light-

• always travels in a straight line
• bends when it passes through water
• makes the water in the glass evaporate
• reflects the pencil on the water's surface

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The bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another is called?

• Convex Lens
• Refraction
• Concave Lens

Refraction is the bending of a wave disturbance as it passes from one _________ into another.

• glass
• medium
• area
• boundary

When light/waves move from one medium to another, change in ____ can be observed.

• speed, direction, frequency
• speed, direction
• frequency
• amplitude

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What is it called when light bends as it moves from one substance to another?

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Incidence

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Light bends as it passes through a lens. This is called what?

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Refraction

• Dilation

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