{"id":12099,"date":"2012-07-22T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2012-07-22T08:26:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T13:26:44","slug":"bend-it-like-snell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12099","title":{"rendered":"Bend it Like \u2026 Snell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2012\/07\/16\/optics-basics-refraction\/\">Optics basics: refraction<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In short, refraction is the bending of a ray of light when it passes from one medium to another.  Unlike optical phenomena like diffraction and interference, which usually require careful experimental preparation to be observable, refraction is readily seen all around us.  If you\u2019ve ever seen a seemingly bent straw in a glass of water, you\u2019ve seen the effect of refraction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optics basics: refraction In short, refraction is the bending of a ray of light when it passes from one medium to another. Unlike optical phenomena like diffraction and interference, which usually require careful experimental preparation to be observable, refraction is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}