1. What is meant by reflection?2. State and explain the law of reflection?3. What do you mean by refraction of light?4. Hat is absolute refraction index of a medium?5. What is Snell's law?6. What is meant by optical path? How is it different fromgeometrical path length?7. Abeamof collimated light (i.e. having parallel rays)traveling in air makes an angle of 30° to the normal to a glassplate. If the index of the glass is ng3/2, determine the%3Ddirection of the transmitted beam within the plate.8. Envision the interface between two regions, one of glass (n,1.5) and the other of water (n., = 1.33). A ray traveling in%3Dthe glass impinges on the interface at 45° and refracts into thewater. What is the transmission (refraction) angle?

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Snell’s law is a formula that gives a relation between the angle of incidence and angle of refraction and is given as:

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1. What is meant by reflection?
2. State and explain the law of reflection?
3. What do you mean by refraction of light?
4. Hat is absolute refraction index of a medium?
5. What is Snell's law?
6. What is meant by optical path? How is it different from
geometrical path length?
7. Abeam
of collimated light (i.e. having parallel rays)
traveling in air makes an angle of 30° to the normal to a glass
plate. If the index of the glass is ng
3/2, determine the
%3D
direction of the transmitted beam within the plate.
8. Envision the interface between two regions, one of glass (n,
1.5) and the other of water (n., = 1.33). A ray traveling in
%3D
the glass impinges on the interface at 45° and refracts into the
water. What is the transmission (refraction) angle?

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