Light traveling in air strikes a flat piece of uniformly thick glass at an incident angle of 60°, as shown in the figure. If the refractive index of the glass is 1.5 a) what is the angle of refraction θ_A in the glass?; b) What is the angle θ_B with which the ray leaves the glass?
Light traveling in air strikes a flat piece of uniformly thick glass at an incident angle of 60°, as shown in the figure. If the refractive index of the glass is 1.5 a) what is the angle of refraction θ_A in the glass?; b) What is the angle θ_B with which the ray leaves the glass?
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Light traveling in air strikes a flat piece of uniformly thick glass at an incident angle of 60°, as shown in the figure. If the refractive index of the glass is 1.5 a) what is the angle of refraction θ_A in the glass?; b) What is the angle θ_B with which the ray leaves the glass?
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