Physics
Physics
1st Edition
Walker
ISBN: 9780133256925
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Exercise 23
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Total internal reflection occur when light travels from medium with greater refractive index to a medium with lower refractive index. Hence light travelling from n=1.33 to n=1.1 can have total internal reflection.
Exercise 24
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When a beam of white light strikes a prism, the blue light bends more when refracted than the red light. A material has a higher index of refraction for light toward the blue end of the visible spectrum. Therefore the $textbf{blue light}$ is refracted the most while the $textbf{red light}$ is the least.
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When a beam of white light strikes a prism, the blue light bends more when refracted than the red light. A material has a higher index of refraction for light toward the blue end of the visible spectrum. Therefore the $textbf{blue light}$ is refracted the most while the $textbf{red light}$ is the least.
Exercise 25
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The angle of refraction in this case is 90$text{textdegree}$. Since if the incident angle is just bellow the critical angle, the light emerges almost parallel to the interface. Which is at 90$text{textdegree}$ from normal. Hence the angle of refraction is 90$text{textdegree}$.
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90$text{textdegree}$.
Exercise 26
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Since the refractive index of red light is less than the refractive index of the blue light. Hence the critical angle for red light will be greater than the blue light.
Exercise 27
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For a single (strictly monochromatic) color light, dispersion will not have any effect. As the refractive index of the whole beam will be same and hence bending will be same for whole beam. Hence dispersion will not effect for single color beam.
Exercise 28
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From the formula for the critical angle we have

$$
alpha_c=arcsinleft(frac{n_1}{n_2}right) = arcsinleft(frac{1.33}{1.65}right) = 53.7^circ.
$$

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Exercise 29
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The formula for the critical angle here reads

$$
alpha_c=arcsinleft(frac{n_{air}}{n_{glass}}right)Rightarrow39.1^circ=arcsinleft(frac{1}{n_{glass}}right).
$$
Taking sine of both sides we get

$$
sin39.1^circ = frac{1}{n_{glass}}Rightarrow n_{glass} =frac{1}{sin39.1^circ} =1.59
$$

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Exercise 30
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Here there is no refraction of light on cathetus since the light goes in perpendicularly to cathetus. Then the angle of incidence on hypotenuse is $30^circ$ so the application of Snell’s law gives

$$
n_{red}sin30^circ=n_{air}sinalpha_{red};quad n_{violet}sin30^circ =n_{air}sinalpha_{violet}.
$$
This then gives by putting $n_{air} = 1$

$$
sinalpha_{red}=n_{red}sin30^circ;quad sinalpha_{violet}=n_{violet}sin30^circ.
$$

Taking sine of both sides of both equations we finally get

$$
alpha_{red}=arcsin(n_{red}sin30^circ)=45.3^circ;quadalpha_{violet}=arcsin(n_{violet}sin30^circ)=48.8^circ;
$$
yielding

$$
Deltaalpha = alpha_{violet}-alpha_{red} =3.5^circ.
$$

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