Links to Help Understand Refraction
IV. Explanations:
Refraction experiment. Shine a light from a ray-box into a semicircular glass block and observe refraction and internal reflection, just like the traditional experiment.
Nice animation of waves being refracted. By Fu-Kwun Hwang
Fish-eye view. Nice! Refraction and thus the image changes as you move the object. By Fu-Kwun Hwang.
Fermat Principle. This java applet let you visualize how refraction is caused by light traveling the path of least travel time". ByFu-Kwun Hwang.
Mirages. Look at results from Yahoo search.
Tutorial by Glenbrook High School.
Tutorial by Clarence Bakken.