Explain it

05.10 — 1 short write-up

A checkpoint, not a test

Connect a boundary to the wave equation

Use the unchanged quantity to link two equations.

A light wave enters glass from air at an oblique angle (a nonzero angle to the normal). Explain why its wavelength becomes shorter even though its frequency does not change, and connect that change to the direction of refraction.

Combine n = c/v, v = fλ, and the higher index of glass.