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Figures (a) and (b) show refraction of a ray in air incident at 60° with the normal to a glass-air and water-air interface, respectively. Predict the angle of refraction in glass when the angle of incidence in water is 45° with the normal to a water-glass interface (figure c).

Solution:
(a) Applying Snell’s law for the refraction from air to glass. Refractive index of glass w.r.t. air = = = 1.51 (b) Now Snell’s law for the refraction from air to water = = = 1.32 (c) Now the light beam is incident at an angle 45° from water to glass = ⇒ = = sin r = = 0.6181 ∴ r = 38.2°
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