Timeline for Refraction of light through a slab of variable refractive index
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| Mar 7 at 18:32 | comment | added | Stevan V. Saban | The thinner the slab, the smaller the deviation angle. It's not the ray that's deviating it's the wavefront. Each individual ray in the wavefront is traveling at different speeds through the medium causing the wavefront to change angle | |
| Mar 7 at 18:23 | comment | added | Govind Prajapat | What if we don't consider slab infinitesimal thin, as it is not mentioned in question? wouldn't ray start deviating in the slab itsef? | |
| Mar 7 at 17:40 | history | answered | Stevan V. Saban | CC BY-SA 4.0 |