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One of my favorite misconceptions is one that is drawn by students on
seeing the standard picture of a ruler or pencil inclined in a glass
of water. The pencil looks bent at the surface of the water, and
students often take this to mean that the light bends just like that,
too. (Note that the pencil appears to bend away from the surface
normal where it enters the water.)