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A ray of light travelling in air enters obliquely into water. Does the light ray bend towards the normal or way from the normal ? Why ?

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When a light ray travels from a rarer medium (air) to a denser medium (water), the light ray will bend towards the normal. The speed of the light ray decreases as it moves from an optically rarer medium like water, hence it bends towards or closer to the normal.
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