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2. When light passes from air into water at an angle of 30° from the normal, what is the angle of refraction?

User Zan Lynx
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I know this question is already answered but I have doubts about the answer sooo yeah. Anyways,

to find refraction angle we need to use snell's law, which is


(sin\alpha )/(sin\beta ) = (n_(2) )/(n_(1) )

Here n1 is refractive index of air, n2 is refractive index of water, α is incident angle & β is angle of refraction.

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Answer:

angle is 30 because when the light surface hits the water it perfectly make an refracted angel which will be 30

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