Main Table of Contents

  0: Introduction
  1: Refraction
  2: Index of refraction
  3: Snell's law
  4: Interactive checkpoint: Snell's law
  5: Everyday effects of refraction
  6: Why refraction occurs
  7: Interactive problem: helicopter and submarines optional
  8: Total internal reflection optional
  9: Dispersion and prisms
10: Gotchas
11: Summary

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