Plastic coatings are put in car's glass windows (n = 1.52) in order to keep the interior of cars cooler. What should be the index of refraction of the plastic film with minimum thickness of 107.5 [nm] if you the reflected light from both sides of the film to have no relative phase shift and to interfere destructively? The wavelength of the light in air is 600 [nm]. OA. 2.791 OB. 1.395 O C. 1.861

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Plastic coatings are put in car's glass windows (n = 1.52) in order to keep the interior of cars cooler. What should be the index of refraction of the plastic film with minimum thickness of 107.5 [nm] if you want
the reflected light from both sides of the film to have no relative phase shift and to interfere destructively? The wavelength of the light in air is 600 [nm].
O A. 2.791
OB. 1.395
O C. 1.861
O D. 1.321
Transcribed Image Text:Plastic coatings are put in car's glass windows (n = 1.52) in order to keep the interior of cars cooler. What should be the index of refraction of the plastic film with minimum thickness of 107.5 [nm] if you want the reflected light from both sides of the film to have no relative phase shift and to interfere destructively? The wavelength of the light in air is 600 [nm]. O A. 2.791 OB. 1.395 O C. 1.861 O D. 1.321
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