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When red light in vacuum is incident at the Brewster angle on a certain glass slab, the angle of refraction is 32.0.What are (a) the index of refraction of the glass and (b) the Brewster angle?

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Chapter1: The Nature Of Light

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When red light in vacuum is incident at the Brewster angle
on a certain glass slab, the angle of refraction is 32.0.What are
(a) the index of refraction of the glass and (b) the Brewster angle?

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