A narrow beam of light is incident from air onto a polystyrene surface with index of refraction 1.49. Find the angle of incidence for which the corresponding angle of refraction is one-half the angle of incidence.(Hint: You might want to use the trigonometric identity sin (20) = 2 sin(0) cos(0).)

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