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When a ray of light travels from a denser medium into a rarer medium, how does it bend, and what happens to its speed?

1. When a ray of light travels from a denser medium into a rarer medium, how does it bend, and what happens to its speed?

 

Moving into a rarer, less optically dense medium, light both bends away from the normal and speeds up.

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