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If a beam of light strikes a diamond at an angle of 45 degrees what is the angle of refraction?
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17° to the normal.
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State the relationship between the amount of bending and the index of refraction as light passes from an optically less dense medium to an optically denser one?
The amount of bending that a light ray experiences can be expressed in terms of the angle of refraction (more accurately, by the difference between the angle of refraction and the angle of incidence). A ray of light may approach the boundary at an angle of incidence of 45-degrees and bend towards the normal. If the medium into which it enters causes a small amount of refraction, then the angle of refraction might be a value of about 42-degrees. On the other hand if the medium into which the light enters causes a large amount of refraction, the angle of refraction might be 22-degrees. (These values are merely arbitrarily chosen values to illustrate a point.) The diagram below depicts a ray of light approaching three different boundaries at an angle of incidence of 45-degrees. The refractive medium is different in each case, causing different amounts of refraction.
Light traveling from air into glass has an angle of 45 degrees The angle of refraction in the glass is most likely?
27.7 degrees if the glass is crown glass.
When light is incident on a surface at 30 degrees it is found that reflected ray and refracted ray are perpendicular to each other Find angle of refraction How?
The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
How does the angle of incidence compared with the angle of refraction for sound?
For refraction, the general relationship is given by Snell's Law.
What are the terms related to refraction of light?
terms realated to refraction of light are * interface * incident ray * refracted ray * point of incidence *normal *angle of incidence * angle of refraction *angle of deviation
What is the incidence angle at which the angle of refraction is 90 degrees called?
A right angle.
The refractive index of water is 1.33 a ray is incident from water on air at an angle of incidence equal to 30 degree what is the angle of refraction in air?
nwater * sin 30=nair *sin(angle of refraction) 1.33*0.5=1*sin(angle of refraction) sin(angle of refractiob)=0.665 angle of refraction inair=41.6 degrees nwater * sin 30=nair *sin(angle of refraction) 1.33*0.5=1*sin(angle of refraction) sin(angle of refractiob)=0.665 angle of refraction inair=41.6 degrees
When light is traveling along the normal will its direction change?
This is total internal reflection where the angle of refraction is 90 degrees and its incident angle would be the critical angle(angle of incident for which the angle of refraction is 90).... This hapens when the angle of incidence is in a medium more dense than the angle of refraction's medium
State the relationship between the amount of bending and the index of refraction as light passes from an optically less dense medium to an optically denser one?
The amount of bending that a light ray experiences can be expressed in terms of the angle of refraction (more accurately, by the difference between the angle of refraction and the angle of incidence). A ray of light may approach the boundary at an angle of incidence of 45-degrees and bend towards the normal. If the medium into which it enters causes a small amount of refraction, then the angle of refraction might be a value of about 42-degrees. On the other hand if the medium into which the light enters causes a large amount of refraction, the angle of refraction might be 22-degrees. (These values are merely arbitrarily chosen values to illustrate a point.) The diagram below depicts a ray of light approaching three different boundaries at an angle of incidence of 45-degrees. The refractive medium is different in each case, causing different amounts of refraction.
Light traveling from air into glass has an angle of 45 degrees The angle of refraction in the glass is most likely?
27.7 degrees if the glass is crown glass.
If light strikes a body of water at an angle of 55 degrees the angle of reflection will be what?
The angle of incidence is ALWAYS equal to the angle of reflection, therefore the degree of the angle reflection is 55 degrees.
What happens when the angle of refraction is 90 degrees or greater?
I think total internal reflection
If the angle of incidence increases and the indexes of refraction stay the same what happens to the angle of refraction?
The angle if refraction also increases.
Why light ray does not change it path when fall prallel to the normal?
The angle of incidence would be 90 degrees, so the angle of refraction is 0 degrees, as the light ray does not deviate.
What happens if the refraction angle is greater than ninety degrees?
This means no refraction occurs i.e. Total internal reflection (all light reflected) occurs
What is the seize of the angle of refraction if the angle incidence is 0 degrees?
The answer is zero. (From Snell's law, if AI in the angle of incidence, AR is the angle of refraction, and n is the refractive index of the material doing the refracting, then: AR = arcsin[(1/n)sin(AI)] =0 if AI=0.
A ray of light strikes a plane mirror such that angle with the mirror is 30 degreewhat is the angle of reflection?
30 degrees as the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence
