Try it on paper first. A hint, the key idea and the worked solution are here when you need them.
A ray falls from air on to a flat surface of flint glass (). Part of the light is reflected, and part is refracted. At one angle of incidence, the reflected ray and the refracted ray are at to each other. Find this angle of incidence, and the angle of refraction.
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: is a constant for two materials; from air into a material of index , .
Have you tried it?
Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Step 1. The condition. The two rays are at when . Then , so .
Step 2. Snell's law. , so .
Step 3. The angles. , and .
Answer: and .
Check. .
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