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What is the bending of a wave due to it entering a different medium as it travels? diffraction refraction absorption reflection
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It would be refractions, that is why a pencil looks bent when u put it in a cup of water/new medium. Reflected is like a mirror reflecting light and absorbing is like black clothes absorbing sun rays making you sweat from the heat.
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