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The critical angle depends on the index of refraction of the two substances, in this case, air and glass. The angle can be calculated by Snell's Law. It won't always be exactly 39.3°, since different glasses have different indices of refraction.
The color of light that has the minimum critical angle when passing from glass to air is red. This is because red light has the longest wavelength of all the visible colors, which leads to a smaller change in speed and a larger angle of refraction at the interface between the two mediums.
The refractive number of a substance is a measure of how much the speed of a wave changes compared to the speed in a reference medium i.e. air or a vacuum. The critical angle is the angle of incidence above which total internal reflection occurs. When the angle of incidence of the light ray leaving the glass is less than the critical angle, the light ray speeds up on leaving the glass and is refracted away from the normal.
REFLECTION... (this is the right answer for: A ray of light strikes a flat surface of water. The angle that the reflected light ray makes with the normal is called the angle of? )if not incident ray.
Change in speed of the light in glass. Fermat showed that time is invariant in light paths. This results in Light following the Law of Signs. sin(Air Angle)/speed in air = sin( Glass Angle)/speed in glass .
It does not move from glass to air but undergoes internal refraction. That is, it is refracted back into the glass at the interface.
The critical angle depends on the index of refraction of the two substances, in this case, air and glass. The angle can be calculated by Snell's Law. It won't always be exactly 39.3°, since different glasses have different indices of refraction.
When light in glass of index of refraction n hits the surface at angle A relative to the surface normal (perpendicular line to the surface) it generally exits into the air at larger angle B. These three variables are related by Snell's Law: n Sin(A) = (1)Sin(B) (air has index of refraction approx. = 1 ) The critical angle A for internal reflection occurs when the exit angle is 90 so the exit light skims the surface. Anything larger then critical A and the light gets reflected back into the glass. So in Snell's law let B = 90; nSin(A) =(1)Sin(90) = (1)(1) so Sin(A) = 1/n For glass n ~ 1.5 so Sin(A) ~ .67 This is the sine of the critical angle. Now figure out what angle has a sign of .67 and Whala you have it.
Anything greater than critical angle will cause the light to just be reflected.
The color of light that has the minimum critical angle when passing from glass to air is red. This is because red light has the longest wavelength of all the visible colors, which leads to a smaller change in speed and a larger angle of refraction at the interface between the two mediums.
The refractive number of a substance is a measure of how much the speed of a wave changes compared to the speed in a reference medium i.e. air or a vacuum. The critical angle is the angle of incidence above which total internal reflection occurs. When the angle of incidence of the light ray leaving the glass is less than the critical angle, the light ray speeds up on leaving the glass and is refracted away from the normal.
REFLECTION... (this is the right answer for: A ray of light strikes a flat surface of water. The angle that the reflected light ray makes with the normal is called the angle of? )if not incident ray.
Angle of incidence has to be 0. This means that the ray has to hit normally on the surface of separation of two media
27.7 degrees if the glass is crown glass.
Change in speed of the light in glass. Fermat showed that time is invariant in light paths. This results in Light following the Law of Signs. sin(Air Angle)/speed in air = sin( Glass Angle)/speed in glass .
48.6 degrees
The angle of incidence is always greater than the angle of refraction. The refractive index of glass is greater than that of air, so the speed of light in air is more than the speed of light in glass. Therefore it slows down and bends towards the normal.