This simple activity has surprising results! We’re going to bend light using plain water. Light bends when it travels from one medium to another, like going from air to a window, or from a window to water. Each time it travels to a new medium, it bends, or refracts. When light refracts, it changes speed and wavelength, which means it also changes direction.


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