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Grade 9General Physics

What really cause light/photons to appear slower in media?

Profile image of rishav kumar
12 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Vikas TU
5 Years ago
How quickly the atoms in a material can absorb and re-emit the photon and how dense the atoms decides the apparent speed of light in that material. So the light appears slower because it has a smaller “drift speed”.