Refraction
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"I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been."--She: A History of Adventure (1887) by H. Rider Haggard |
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In physics, refraction is the redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another. The redirection can be caused by the wave's change in speed or by a change in the medium.
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See also
- Birefringence (double refraction)
- Geometrical optics
- Huygens–Fresnel principle
- List of indices of refraction
- Negative refraction
- Reflection
- Schlieren photography
- Seismic refraction
- Super refraction
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