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A ray goes from air into glass (n = 1.5).

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A ray goes from air into glass ( $n = 1.5$ ). The angle of incidence is $52^\circ$ . Find the angle of refraction, and say by how many degrees the ray turns at the boundary.

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Light bends because its speed changes. Into an optically denser material it bends toward the normal; into a rarer one, away from it. Snell's law: $\dfrac{\sin i}{\sin r}$ is a constant for two materials; from air into a material of index $n$ , $\sin r = \dfrac{\sin i}{n}$ .

The worked solution

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