Guide Questions:
1. What did you notice to the appearance of the pencil when you put it in a glass of water?
2. What is the appearance of the pencil when you viewed it from the side?
3. What do your observations show about the way light travels through different media?
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1.the image of the pencil appears to be broken
2.As the pencil is moved across the middle of the glass, an interesting phenomenon is observed. The position of the pencil under the water is shifted relative to the position of the pencil above the water - the pencil appears broken.
3. It can come directly from the source through empty space, such as from the Sun to Earth. Or light can travel through various media, such as air and glass, to the person. Light can also arrive after being reflected, such as by a mirror. In all of these cases, light is modeled as traveling in straight lines called rays. Light may change direction when it encounters objects (such as a mirror) or in passing from one material to another (such as in passing from air to glass), but it then continues in a straight line or as a ray. The word ray comes from mathematics and here means a straight line that originates at some point. It is acceptable to visualize light rays as laser rays (or even science fiction depictions of ray guns).
Explanation:
correct me if I'm wrong that's all I know I hope it helped :))