Refraction Explained

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  • @karinamatos4253
    @karinamatos4253 2 роки тому +22

    Speechless. 50% of my physics class in 4 minutes! Great job explaining!!!!!! Woooowww!!!!

  • @terryfries
    @terryfries 2 роки тому +10

    Simply Magnificent, during classes of Physics and Science I paid little to no attention due to my lack of sleep and teachers that lacked the enthusiasm to help me find the passion for it but this video just hits the dopamine for information collected online

  • @PouyaLucky
    @PouyaLucky 2 роки тому +60

    WOW ... This is explained so nicely and clearly ! I wish I had access to this growing up, the confusing math and physics and science could have been really awesome and fun sessions ... I guess the kids today are lucky in that sense ... Keep up the great work and thanks

  • @shayaandanish5831
    @shayaandanish5831 5 років тому +41

    Great content. Really don't understand why more people don't watch this stuff. You never really completely understand science at high school level and I for one really need these kinda videos to help.
    Thanks man

    • @Science_Sauce
      @Science_Sauce  5 років тому +9

      Thanks I’m glad you’ve found it so useful.

    • @cxffaye
      @cxffaye 4 роки тому +6

      We watched this at school but I didn’t quite understand refraction so I watched it again at home and now understand!

    • @81giorikas
      @81giorikas 2 роки тому

      @@Science_Sauce Fermilab posted a video that says this explanation is pretty much wrong!

  • @neolicemarieatillo6422
    @neolicemarieatillo6422 2 роки тому +7

    Thank you so much! All of the other videos immediately jump into the formulas and the others doesn't even scratch the surface of refraction. This video helped me so much. Thank you! I do hope you make a video about the laws of refraction soon. I really love the way you explained this. Thank you again!

  • @KavyaCeleste
    @KavyaCeleste 3 роки тому +13

    I didn’t understand this in school but thank you for this video! It helped me understand way better and now I think I’ll be fine in the test I have coming up soon.

  • @GelertTierney
    @GelertTierney Рік тому +3

    am a science teacher and my students find your videos very usefull

  • @knuxuki1013
    @knuxuki1013 2 роки тому +7

    I love how you explained and demonstrated how things work, really cool

  • @anekashah7210
    @anekashah7210 3 роки тому +17

    Woah this is too good! Thank you so much!!!! The best video on this subject so far, a comprehensive, and well-explained introduction with amazing animation! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for all that you do, it is very much appreciated. Got that "ah, I see!" moment finally.

  • @SimulatingPhysics
    @SimulatingPhysics 4 роки тому +15

    For the ones curious, I leave here a explanation of why refraction happens:
    (It can be explained as a consequence of conservation of momentum of photons)
    If in medium 1 the index of refraction is n1 and in medium 2 the index of refraction is n2 and for the definition of index of refractions and wavelength we have:
    n1 = c / v1 , v1 = λ1 * f
    n2 = c / v2 , v2 = λ2 * f
    Dividing the above equations we obtain: n2 / n1 = λ1 /λ2
    So if n2 is higher than n1, the wavelength in medium 2 is smaller than in medium 1.
    Now because the photon momentum is: p = h / λ
    Applying the conservation of momentum of the incident and transmitted photon along the parallel line of medium separation:
    p1 = p2 → h/λ1 *sin(θ1) = h/λ2 *sin(θ2) → n1 *sin(θ1) = n2 *sin(θ2)
    This is the Snell Law!!
    So the light bending is just a consequence of the conservation of momentum of photons!

    • @Wymillll
      @Wymillll 3 роки тому +5

      Now I’m more confused

    • @Karma-hq6zl
      @Karma-hq6zl 3 роки тому

      No one cares g 🤡

    • @anekashah7210
      @anekashah7210 3 роки тому +1

      Thank you! That's so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @snehamourya6110
    @snehamourya6110 2 роки тому +2

    Best explanation of refraction of light ever!

  • @GelertTierney
    @GelertTierney Рік тому +2

    this helped me explain refraction perfectly to my students great explanation

  • @nopenope6909
    @nopenope6909 11 місяців тому +2

    Bro the car example hits different for me. I love you for this. Thank you so much.

  • @hvnxxo
    @hvnxxo Рік тому

    the analogy with the car definetly helped me understand this a lot better! thank you for the VISUAL this video is awesome

  • @LFSPharaoh
    @LFSPharaoh 2 роки тому +2

    4:09 man that is so cool. Like sure we all know how a lens works, but to see it so concretely like that is so amazing. Great video.

  • @tiffany5333
    @tiffany5333 Рік тому +2

    This video is amazing. The way you explain things, makes science understandable for even 5 year olds. Thank you so much for the help.

  • @mrhansen-physicsdemos.451
    @mrhansen-physicsdemos.451 3 роки тому +4

    another excellent video by Science Sauce!!!

  • @alexfontaine6233
    @alexfontaine6233 10 місяців тому

    ive watched 4 videos on refraction and this one takes the cake. Thanks a lot

  • @hoofheartedicemelted296
    @hoofheartedicemelted296 2 роки тому +2

    Yes I have to admit, this, was good. Even I could understand it and that's not an easy thing to achieve. You have a new Subscriber sir. Thank you.

  • @DDvrk0
    @DDvrk0 3 роки тому +283

    POV: your here cause of physics

  • @BubblesBS
    @BubblesBS Рік тому +3

    Great video!!! This helped me understand refraction. The car explanation was perfect!

  • @Zara-j8x5m
    @Zara-j8x5m 9 днів тому +1

    Genuinely, thank you so much for this video, it's so clear and very easy to comprehend.🙂

  • @nolanmcgovern4835
    @nolanmcgovern4835 4 роки тому +11

    Wow thank you so much your car explanation was genius and really helpful to me thank you so much!

    • @mems_for_dummies
      @mems_for_dummies 3 роки тому

      yassssss

    • @lije6858
      @lije6858 3 роки тому

      Ur profile picture is the same as a sticker I have ur famous lol

  • @Kayla-h3w
    @Kayla-h3w Рік тому +1

    Nice explanation.👍👍

  • @thatwolfyouknow8598
    @thatwolfyouknow8598 Рік тому +1

    Amazing. Subscribed based on this video alone. Thank you!

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter 11 місяців тому

    So does this mean refraction is a form of diffraction, where a wavefront pivots around an object (in this case, the material interface)? What's a good way to picture how this wavefront looks then? I guess maybe if we think about a wavefront impacting a surface at an angle, the first part of the wavefront to impact will 'stop' and allow different phases of the wave to 'catch up' further down the surface; so it appears that the direction of propagation of the lines of the waves becomes more normal to the surface, and constructive/destructive interference basically recreates the waves inside the material as if they had all entered from this more-normal angle.
    so the angle of refraction is 'how far back' in the wave phase the difference in arrival times at the surface causes the wave front to be out of phase

  • @demetresaghliani9048
    @demetresaghliani9048 4 роки тому +5

    Thank you for the wonderful explanation.

  • @theplanetruth
    @theplanetruth 2 роки тому +1

    Do you have any tutorials on mirage?

  • @shabbirbarwaniwala7323
    @shabbirbarwaniwala7323 3 роки тому +1

    Extremely good explanation

  • @johnnycasswell7290
    @johnnycasswell7290 Рік тому

    A great video, really well explained and demonstrated through the animations etc. Lots of key knowledge shown simply and effectively - I'm using it with my Y6 class in science tomorrow!

  • @kville5796
    @kville5796 7 місяців тому

    Damn! That's a magnificent level of detail. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @ThanoSalt
    @ThanoSalt 3 роки тому +5

    Ahh finally i wasn't in on school at the day i was supposed to learn this. Now i can start 8th grade easily with no concern :D

  • @ちゃんねずこ-o1y
    @ちゃんねずこ-o1y Рік тому

    Thank you sooo much i was confused why the pencil appears to be bended .this helped me so much and now becuz of this my concepts are clear as water

  • @bim1537
    @bim1537 2 роки тому +1

    I graduated high school 14 years ago, now I'm re-studying it again. Gosh, school education is such a sham.

  • @cfr211
    @cfr211 2 роки тому +1

    This is actually a helpful video

    • @Science_Sauce
      @Science_Sauce  2 роки тому +1

      You sound so surprised.

    • @cfr211
      @cfr211 2 роки тому

      It is exactly what I am getting taught but explained in a much better way

  • @andresparedes-vincent2851
    @andresparedes-vincent2851 Рік тому

    best video on the subject by far, thank you 🙏

  • @gsusgman795
    @gsusgman795 Рік тому +2

    This was extremely informative until i saw the ending where you used a focal lense and the middle ray of light (indicent Ray) exited the same path as the incident ray but was the emergent ray why is that.

  • @mohammadabdullah4531
    @mohammadabdullah4531 Рік тому

    Great and precise explanation

  • @Khuushiii
    @Khuushiii 9 місяців тому

    this was so helpful and in school they just dont teach it this way.have you ever considered teaching or taking classes by any chance? i think you could really help other people understand too

  • @aza3840
    @aza3840 3 роки тому +1

    i found this videos name in my teachers screen-share, learnt something new

  • @cindysabina8724
    @cindysabina8724 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for the amazing explanation 😄

  • @cronixdv6665
    @cronixdv6665 2 роки тому +3

    YES THIS VIDEO IS GOING TO SAVE MY PHYSICS TEST SCORE

  • @tharukakarunarathne365
    @tharukakarunarathne365 Рік тому

    That explaination is perfect. Thanks man ❤

  • @dakshinideshbhakt4204
    @dakshinideshbhakt4204 4 роки тому

    I found your channel now , and chasing all the videos you uploaded.

  • @themeparkthankful
    @themeparkthankful Рік тому

    Great video. Explained very well!

  • @Sedona_FD3S
    @Sedona_FD3S 4 роки тому +2

    Do this tells me that light rays have a thickness.. cause one end of a light way must enter the new medium first then the other ends follow. How thick is a light ray?

  • @thatonekidwhocantdraw792
    @thatonekidwhocantdraw792 3 роки тому +1

    Ok, I'm sorry to disappoint but I wasn't sent by my physics teacher. I'm studying for exams and found this video that turned out to be extremely helpful, like REALLY helpful. So yea just wanted to say thx.

  • @tradmop3744
    @tradmop3744 2 роки тому

    Thanks, needed this for my exam.

  • @reneilwee8126
    @reneilwee8126 Рік тому

    The best explanation 👌 😊

  • @Illogical.
    @Illogical. 8 місяців тому

    (this paragraph was added in the edit) I wrote a lot more text than I intended. Sorry to anyone who decides to read it all.
    1:46 This image just doesn't make any sense. It's a wave. Not a car. It only has one 'point of contact' with the world. So one side can't enter faster than the other side, cause there is no other side.
    Please tell me why I'm wrong. I know I'm wrong, but the video does not explain why, and I don't know why.
    2:02 This also doesn't quite make sense. In the image, the light appears to continue on it's path, before scattering and moving towards where the it should be, according to you.
    You say one thing, but the footage shows something completely different.
    I am getting more and more frustrated the more videos I watch. I just want to understand how it works, but noone explains it in a way that consistent with itself.
    I must conclude that at least one of the following are true:
    1: I lack some basic information about how light works, that everyone else watching is assumed to already know.
    2: Everyone is just content with not really understanding how it works.
    3: The topic is in actuality far more complex, necessitating a simpler way of thinking about it, and this video explains the simpler way.
    4: Something I haven't thought of and mentioned.
    Maybe I should contact someone who knows, so I can ask them questions about this instead of looking it up, cause looking it up only gives the widely accepted explanations, that doesn't make sense to me.
    3:59 That is nonsense again! You take two points on the pencil, and draw parallel lines, that exit the water at the same angle, but they don't end up at the same point. So those lines are different perspectives. The thing showing what the pencil would appear as, is not what is would appear as from one point of view. It is what it would appear as from a range of points of view.
    I want to reiterate that I just want to learn what's right, and I expect that I am wrong. I am presenting how I understand it so someone who knows what is right can more easily spot which part of what I am saying is wrong.
    4:43 And yes, we do see from a range of perspectives because the eye has a lense. But that lense does not have the diameter of half a pencil, so at best, that increases the margin of error for observational proof.
    Also, I am almost certain that the light in the eye, doesn't hit such a tiny area. I did some googling, but googling rarely helps, cause everything I could find in the amount of time I felt would be worth spending on looking it up was either simplified or expects the reader/viewer to have a had a lot of education on the subject already.
    I want to mention that I want to know this, in part, out of curiosity, and in part because I think it would be relevant for a personal project I'm working on.
    Every time I try to learn something even slightly complex, I just get dissapointed, and lose another bit of my remaining trust in education. I have More motivation to learn this stuff than 90% of the people seeking out this information, but the information has been made to fit that 90% of people who will only ever use that information to pass some test.
    I wrote this shortly after waking up, so I was a little tired, which makes it more likely that I missed something. I really hope that I did miss something, and that I'm wrong, and that education is not actually as disappointing as it appears to be to me right now.

  • @movieonweekend
    @movieonweekend 3 роки тому +1

    Very good example! Thank you

  • @ahmedal-basrawi1999
    @ahmedal-basrawi1999 Рік тому +2

    excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍
    thank you ❤️

  • @josskirk
    @josskirk Рік тому

    Very good explanation

  • @salmakashif1859
    @salmakashif1859 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you it was a amazing explanation.

  • @bryanthornton4146
    @bryanthornton4146 2 роки тому +1

    Does the object that the light is refracting off of get birghter the closer you get to it?

  • @Vastafari34
    @Vastafari34 3 роки тому +3

    But I thought that light always traveled at the speed of light. I thought that was an intrinsic property of light, that photons only can move at light speed. Or is that totally wrong?

  • @steffinsam1238
    @steffinsam1238 4 роки тому +3

    Hey Sir, Can you tell me the name of the song in the background. Sorry if it isn't related to the wonderful explanation u said :). Also my mum loved it. She said I could learn from it XD. Its true tho :P.

  • @madeleinelasell9417
    @madeleinelasell9417 2 роки тому +1

    When leaving the lens, shouldn't it be refracted towards the normal again since one is going from a slower to a faster medium.

  • @fannytorres1781
    @fannytorres1781 Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much!!

  • @sally4all551
    @sally4all551 7 місяців тому +4

    3 hours before exam 😂

  • @charlesseebeck7334
    @charlesseebeck7334 3 роки тому +2

    should use ya diff locks so you dont turn when ya hit the sand

  • @irshita8773
    @irshita8773 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for such an amazing explanation. 😁

  • @sorlos
    @sorlos Рік тому

    A big genuine thank you. Now I understand!!

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter 11 місяців тому

    What does a surface water wave look like when it hits a liquid of a different density (separated by perhaps a thin membrane)?

  • @sophiefitz4709
    @sophiefitz4709 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you this helped me so much!!!

  • @ChiefRhino_Official
    @ChiefRhino_Official 3 роки тому +12

    pov: you're in an online lessons and your science teacher sent you here

  • @zae0616
    @zae0616 2 роки тому +4

    Wasn't this theory for why light bends in glass, water, etc debunked in videos by Fermilabs and others before this video was published? I guess this theory has the advantage of being easier to understand than perpendicular electric fields and Maxwell's equations. My understanding of the topic is limited, but light bending seems to be related to different resistances of electrical fields generated as light passes through different mediums.

  • @seper159
    @seper159 2 роки тому +1

    3:55 does that means light refraction is only perceived by living beings? You say it as if the illusion was produced by our brains assuming incorrectly where light is suppose to be

    • @Science_Sauce
      @Science_Sauce  2 роки тому +1

      The illusion that the pen is broken is produced by our brains. The fact that the light has been bent is not an illusion. Any organism that can see the straw would see the same broken illusion.

  • @lifecraftsderina
    @lifecraftsderina 2 місяці тому

    How you edit like this?

  • @yarshanpillay5684
    @yarshanpillay5684 2 роки тому

    This was super helpful

  • @xtinction3147
    @xtinction3147 3 роки тому +5

    "It's called... REFRACTION"
    *beat drops

  • @zainalshibli8718
    @zainalshibli8718 Рік тому +1

    W i have been searching to understand a long time ago W vid

  • @mintfuuu8934
    @mintfuuu8934 3 роки тому +1

    Good explanation tysm!

  • @aymanhalim990
    @aymanhalim990 3 роки тому +1

    How to calculate the refracted ray?

  • @MrWellingtonboot
    @MrWellingtonboot 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks very helpful

  • @lewyboy0411
    @lewyboy0411 3 роки тому +37

    People who have tae watch this fur online school 💀

  • @markjoshuaares3045
    @markjoshuaares3045 3 роки тому

    I love your Intro

  • @staceyaldridge5366
    @staceyaldridge5366 Рік тому

    It’s a great video 😊love this video

  • @DanzelDangleben
    @DanzelDangleben 5 місяців тому

    thanks for this ...✅

  • @yycthomas09
    @yycthomas09 Рік тому +1

    Thanks a lot

  • @captainCATfish
    @captainCATfish 2 роки тому

    Im a physics student thats been trying to wrap my head around this for a while now , and watching this I got a missive, OOOOOOOOH, moment.

  • @alexczyz1475
    @alexczyz1475 Рік тому

    I see these.. but no one ever since explains ehat happens if you open up the angle of incidence.. what affect that has on the refracted ray? Is it always the same? Does that angle change with material?

  • @neelamsinghtomar50
    @neelamsinghtomar50 4 роки тому +1

    Thank u sir🙂

  • @matildemateus3977
    @matildemateus3977 3 роки тому

    Very good

  • @harlangleeson9496
    @harlangleeson9496 2 роки тому

    excellent.

  • @edrobinson8248
    @edrobinson8248 4 місяці тому

    wavelngth decreaes inside the block (freq is same)

  • @shefts4132
    @shefts4132 Рік тому

    You keep saying that the light slows down, anf while I understand what you are explaining, I am confused, as in school we are taught, that the speed of light is not changable. Can you explain this to me please?

  • @77mrd
    @77mrd Рік тому +1

    apparently, evolution "accidentally" created these complexities in our human body. eyes, etc..

  • @krishh22317
    @krishh22317 3 роки тому +2

    nice
    thnx

  • @Liverpool.F.CForLife
    @Liverpool.F.CForLife 10 місяців тому +1

    Science

  • @LimYuZheKieranAhs-bh7fm
    @LimYuZheKieranAhs-bh7fm 5 місяців тому

    I got a qn, why does the light that goes into the water from our eyes not bent?

  • @mems_for_dummies
    @mems_for_dummies 3 роки тому

    Thanks i understood a lot!!!

  • @Soldierboyyyy
    @Soldierboyyyy 3 роки тому

    Nice 👍

  • @letsgamegamers4501
    @letsgamegamers4501 2 роки тому +2

    pov: that storm happen so ur teacher sent u here

  • @AlexSimonRiley
    @AlexSimonRiley 3 роки тому +7

    POV: your science teacher sent you this for an online lesson!
    Your either on teams or zoom
    Your in year 7
    And you either understand or still don’t 👁👅👁

  • @IMunchCheddar
    @IMunchCheddar 3 роки тому +1

    i’m such a tryhard, missed a day and still trying to ahead of my class🤣

  • @lizkiley5275
    @lizkiley5275 4 роки тому +1

    I see You are very good

  • @Heloooo11
    @Heloooo11 2 місяці тому +1

    I’m here bc of my final project 👁️👄👁️
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    Edit; I luv this explanation:)

  • @mrgranola8055
    @mrgranola8055 4 роки тому +2

    this was so helpfull

  • @memelady1787
    @memelady1787 3 роки тому +1

    pov: your science teacher sent you here.