I was looking at my friends pictures when I noticed this particular photo and I immediately thought of physics when I closely examined the picture. Light from an outside force reflects off the water and since the water has ripples the water bounces off in all different directions. It bounces off each ripple the same angle that it hits the wave. Also, the lights underneath the water aren't exactly where your eyes perceive them because light gets refracted from water to air because it takes the path of least time and since light travels slower in water than air, it refracts.Thursday, May 27, 2010
Blog 14: Refraction
I was looking at my friends pictures when I noticed this particular photo and I immediately thought of physics when I closely examined the picture. Light from an outside force reflects off the water and since the water has ripples the water bounces off in all different directions. It bounces off each ripple the same angle that it hits the wave. Also, the lights underneath the water aren't exactly where your eyes perceive them because light gets refracted from water to air because it takes the path of least time and since light travels slower in water than air, it refracts.
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