Why does a pencil dipped in water appear to bend?
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Because the light can't travel as quickly in the water as it does in the air, the light bends around the pencil, causing it to look bent in the water. Basically, the light refraction gives the pencil a slight magnifying effect, which makes the angle appear bigger than it actually is, causing the pencil to look crooked.
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A pencil appears to be bend when placed in beaker in water due to refraction of light. As a ray of light coming from the tip of the pencil bends at the surface of water as it is enters in air and it appears to come from point slightly higher. So due to bending of light from water to air we observed the pencil as bend and instead of actual position we see the apparent position of pencil l.
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