Snell's Law
Snell's law is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media.
The index of refraction of the first medium times the sine of the angle of incidence equals the index of refraction of the second medium times the sine of the angle of refraction.
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