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A ray of light goes from a denser medium to a rarer medium, will it bend towards the normal or away from the normal ?

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When a ray of light goes from a denser medium to a rarer medium, it will move away from the normal, due to the fact that when the ray of light travelling from denser to rarer its speed increases and it appears to move away from the normal.

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