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What conditions are necessary for total internal reflection to occur?.

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Answer: When a ray of light travels from an optically denser medium to an optically rarer medium and is incident at an angle greater than the critical angle for the two media, the ray totally reflects back into the medium, obeying the laws of reflection. This phenomenon is known as the total internal reflection.

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For total internal reflection to take place (i) light must travel from a denser medium to a rarer medium and (ii) the angle of incidence inside the denser medium must be greater
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