How does light accelerate back to its original speed after refraction from another medium e.g. glass or water

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The speed of light slows as it traverses through a different medium, but after slowing it finds a way to accelerate back to original speed as it exits that medium. How does it do that?

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Fermi Lab does an excellent video debunking some of the misconceptions mentioned in this thread and giving a simplified answer here:

I believe he has other videos that get into the math of it and angle changes as well.

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