Answering viewer questions about refraction

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Why bending, how can light go "faster" than light, and more Lessons are primarily funded directly by viewers, who get early access to new videos: https://3b1b.co/support An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Much of the last video, as well as this one, is based on the following Feynman Lecture: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_31.html Looking Glass Universe videos on the refractive index: https://youtu.be/uo3ds0FVpXs?si=Q12Rgz9vN1JMo_di Timestamps: 0:00 - Why slowing implies bending 3:36 - Recap for how slowing happens 5:08 - Birefringence 6:19 - The barber pole 8:20 - When the refractive index is less than 1 Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations French: LE PRAT Ronan, PyStL Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld Portuguese: rose ✨ Russian: iverid ------------------ These animations are largely made using a custom Python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here: https://3b1b.co/faq#manim https://github.com/3b1b/manim https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ All code for specific videos is visible here: https://github.com/3b1b/videos/ The music is by Vincent Rubinetti. https://www.vincentrubinetti.com https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown https://open.spotify.com/album/1dVyjwS8FBqXhRunaG5W5u ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate. If you're reading the bottom of a video description, I'm guessing you're more interested than the av

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