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Which best describes what happens when light rays move from air, through the lens, and back to air?

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Glass is a denser medium whereas air is rarer medium. Whenever light rays travel from rarer to denser medium, speed of light decreases. This is because, in denser medium, light rays interact with more particles and due to this there is a time delay.
Geometrically,
When light rays enter glass or any other denser medium, it bends towards the normal of denser medium because refractive index of glass is more than that of air. Finally, when light ray travels from glass to air, the emergent ray will be parallel to the incident ray because light ray travels in the same medium i.e air.
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Hey there!!

The correct answer is that The exit point of the light will always head towards the central axis.

Hope this helped and have a great day!! (:

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