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Polarization by reflection - Brewster's angle
When incident light hits an interface of a dielectric surface at the Brewster angle, I understand that it will result in the generation of a perfectly polarized(horizontally) reflective ray and a ...
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Why exactly does light bend when it enters a different medium? [duplicate]
Simply: what happens to the electric(and magnetic) fields when it enters the medium? How does it interact with the molecules and how this interaction leads to the bending of light?
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