Refraction

Learning Targets

• Recognize and describe how light bends as it travels into a new medium.

• Recognize and describe Snell's Law.

• Solve problems involving Snell's Law.

• Describe the properties of thin lenses and how they refract light rays.

• Draw ray diagrams of converging and diverging thin lenses.

• Solve problems involving focal length, object and image distances, and magnification.

• Describe the concept of total internal reflection.

• Solve problems involving the critical angle and total internal reflection.

• Describe how a mirage is formed.

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