Physics
Physics
1st Edition
Walker
ISBN: 9780133256925
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Page 610: Practice Problems

Exercise 20
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Again since the light hits first cathetus of a prism perpendicularly it does not refract there, but only refracts on hypotenuse. From the figure we see that the angle of incidence is $30^circ$ do from the Snell’s law we calculate

$$
n_{glass}sin30^circ=n_{air}sin57^circ
$$
and this gives

$$
n_{glass}=frac{sin57^circ}{sin30^circ} =1.68.
$$

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Exercise 21
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Index of refraction describes how much the beam refracts. The higher the index, the greater the refraction. This means that the index of refraction of blue light is greater than that of yellow light.
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Exercise 22
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Using Snell’s law we have

$$
n_{air}sin45^circ=n_{liquid}sinalpha_{reff}.
$$

Putting $n_{air} = 1$ we obtain

$$
sinalpha_{reff} = frac{sin45^circ}{n_{liquid}}Rightarrowalpha_{reff} = arcsinleft(frac{sin45^circ}{n_{liquid}}right).
$$

Now we just put in values of the index for both wavelengths which gives

$$
alpha_{violet} =arcsinleft(frac{sin45^circ}{1.332}right) = 32.06^circ;
$$

$$
alpha_{red} =arcsinleft(frac{sin45^circ}{1.330}right) = 32.12^circ.
$$

This gives

$$
alpha_{violet} – alpha_{red} = 0.06^circ=3.6′.
$$

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