Depending on the glass, it ranges from 1.45 to 1.93
It is because the index is related to the velocity of light in air (ideally vacuum) and the medium in question. Since the velocity of light in vacuum is greater than it can be in any other media, the index of refraction of these other media relative to the vacuum is greater than 1.However, if you studied light travelling through glass and then water, the index of refraction between those two would be 0.89 (approx).
Use the definition of "index of refraction". In this case, you simply need to divide the speed of light in a vacuum by the index of refraction.
Not exactly, the angle of refraction = the angle of incidence, which means the ratio of sine of angle of incidence to the sine of angle of refraction is constant for two media. That is sin i /sin r = constant , and this constant is called refractive index
Also 1.5. That's how the index of refraction is defined.
The refractive index is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium.
The index of refraction is precisely how much faster light travels in a vacuum than in the given medium. In this case, 15. Or perhaps you meant 1.5, which would be more typical for glass - answers.com sometimes eliminates some symbols from the questions.
A diamond has the highest index of refraction, about 2.4 Crown glass is about 1.5 and a vacuum is 1
You want the ior of the glass to be identical to the liquied.
Each substance has an index of refraction. The index of refraction of water is about 1.3330 . The index of refraction of air at standard conditions is about 1.0003 . There is no such thing as the index of refraction of "water to air".
The index of refraction, or optical density, is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to that in a given material. Therefore, the index of refraction for this glass is equal to c / v = (3.0 x 10^8 m/s) / (1.6 x 10^8 m/s) = 3.0/1.6 = 1.88
submerge it in a liquid that has the same index of refraction eg. water.
This is done by total internal reflection. It is the result of the fact that the inner glass and the outer glass have different indices of refraction (the outside glass has a lower index of refraction).
Fill a glass with water. Put a straight rod or pencil into the water at an angle. You see an apparent bend in the straight rad. This is caused by the different indexes of refraction of air and water.
If light goes from flint glass into ethanol and the angle of refraction in the ethanol is 27.6, the angle of incidence in the glass is approximately 23.21. This calculation is based on refractive index of pure flint glass being 1.60 and refractive index of ethanol being 1.361.
The minimum index of refraction for a glass or plastic prism to be used in binoculars so that total internal reflection occurs at 45 degrees is 1.414
n = [(R/2)2 + t2]1/2/R/2t is the thickness of the glass plate, R is the inner radius of the outer bright ring you see
No, it would not.