What causes refraction of visible light?
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What is the mechanism behind the slowdown of light/photons in a transparent medium?
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Why exactly does diffraction occur?
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Is light affected by gravity? Why?
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Light formed by the sun?
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Why is there a clear mirror image off a rough surface at shallow angles?
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How does light travel?
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Unpolarized light - Why don't light sources then look invisible?
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Why do light sources appear as stars sometimes?
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Why are light rays able to cross each other?
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Why does thermal radiation only occur at infrared and visible frequencies?
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Looking for the actual reason of refraction explained precisely without analogies
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How does light oscillate?
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How does light speed up after coming out of a glass slab?
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Why does a light wave fade as it travels through space?
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Why does the refractive index depend on wavelength?
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How is light affected by gravity?
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Why do prisms work (why is refraction frequency dependent)?