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Chapter 35, Problem 35.13P
A prism that has an apex angle of 50.0° is made of cubic zirconia. What is its minimum angle of deviation?
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When a man stands near the edge of an empty drainage ditch of depth 2.80 m, he can barely see the boundary between
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