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if you put a pencil in a cup of water, it looks as if it is broken and larger in the water. This is because light waves

if you put a pencil in a cup of water, it looks as if it is broken and larger in the-example-1
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When light enters from air to water i.e. it is moving from rarer to denser medium, it changes its original path as there is a change of speed of light and deflects itself towards the normal. This is known as the refraction of light and this is why a pencil in a cup of water looks as if it is broken and larger.

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