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    Geometric optics describes light propagation using ray models that approximate light's path. Rays are assumed to travel in straight lines through a medium, but can bend or split at an interface between different media depending on the refractive indices. Reflection occurs when a ray bounces off a surface, following the law of reflection by making the same angle to the surface normal on both sides. Refraction is when a ray changes direction at a boundary between media, obeying Snell's law relating the angles and refractive indices.

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    Geometric optics describes light propagation using ray models that approximate light's path. Rays are assumed to travel in straight lines through a medium, but can bend or split at an interface between different media depending on the refractive indices. Reflection occurs when a ray bounces off a surface, following the law of reflection by making the same angle to the surface normal on both sides. Refraction is when a ray changes direction at a boundary between media, obeying Snell's law relating the angles and refractive indices.

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    Geometric optics describes light propagation using ray models that approximate light's path. Rays are assumed to travel in straight lines through a medium, but can bend or split at an interface between different media depending on the refractive indices. Reflection occurs when a ray bounces off a surface, following the law of reflection by making the same angle to the surface normal on both sides. Refraction is when a ray changes direction at a boundary between media, obeying Snell's law relating the angles and refractive indices.

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    Geometric Optics

    Geometrical optics, or ray optics, describes light propagation in terms of rays. The ray in geometric
    optics is an abstraction useful for approximating the paths along which light propagates under certain
    circumstances.

    The simplifying assumptions of geometrical optics include that light rays:

     propagate in straight-line paths as they travel in a homogeneous medium


     bend, and in particular circumstances may split in two, at the interface between two dissimilar
    media
     follow curved paths in a medium in which the refractive index changes
     may be absorbed or reflected.

    Reflection

    Glossy surfaces such as mirrors reflect light in a simple, predictable way. This allows for production of
    reflected images that can be associated with an actual (real) or extrapolated (virtual) location in space.

    With such surfaces, the direction of the reflected ray is determined by the angle the incident ray makes
    with the surface normal, a line perpendicular to the surface at the point where the ray hits. The incident
    and reflected rays lie in a single plane, and the angle between the reflected ray and the surface normal
    is the same as that between the incident ray and the normal. This is known as the Law of Reflection.

    Refraction

    Refraction occurs when light travels through an area of space that has a changing index of refraction.
    The simplest case of refraction occurs when there is an interface between a uniform medium with index
    of refraction n sub 1 and another medium with index of refraction n sub 2. In such situations, Snell's Law
    describes the resulting deflection of the light ray:

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