Re: Graphical Ray tracing on Hangar Floor


<mpate@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote


Check out www.oisc.net/optricks.pdf on page 82 or so has a good
graphic (nice work Dr. Murty, Tom Godfrey, and Susan Raffensperger).

Construction of the refracted ray from the incident ray and the normal
to the refracting surface.

The same diagram appears and is explained in every optics text book.

That's called the "Huygens construction" which is what I said.

Repeat: That's called the "Huygens construction" which is what I said from
the beginning.







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