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Will you get a more total internal reflection with a medium that has a small critical angle or with OR that has a large critical angle?
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What are the conditions for total internal reflection to take place?
Light must travel from the optically denser medium to the optically less dense one. For total internal reflection to occur, the angle of incidence in the optically denser medium must be greater than the critical angle of that medium. The critical angle is that angle of incidence in the optically denser medium for which the angle of refraction is 90o.
What name is given to the angle where total internal reflection occurs?
Total internal reflection occurs when the angle of incidence with respect to the normal at the boundary to a less dense medium exceeds the critical angle.
What does refraction and reflection have to do with mirages?
Actually it is refraction process and specifically indentified as total internal reflection. The condition for total reflection is that the ray has to traverse from denser medium to the rarer medium and the angle of incidence has to be more than the critical angle.
Why are diamonds are excellent with total internal reflection?
Refractive index of the medium is equated to 1/ sin C Here C is the critical angle. Diamond has high refractive index more than 2. So critical angle becomes very low. So for falling radiations at angles of incidence greater than this smaller value of critical angle, total internal reflection becomes possible.
If angle of incidence equals critical angle what is angle of refraction?
90o. i think there will be no refraction there will be totally internal reflection
What are the conditions for total internal reflection to take place?
Light must travel from the optically denser medium to the optically less dense one. For total internal reflection to occur, the angle of incidence in the optically denser medium must be greater than the critical angle of that medium. The critical angle is that angle of incidence in the optically denser medium for which the angle of refraction is 90o.
What name is given to the angle where total internal reflection occurs?
Total internal reflection occurs when the angle of incidence with respect to the normal at the boundary to a less dense medium exceeds the critical angle.
What happens to the light ray when the angle of incidence is greater than the angle of total reflection?
it is not the angle of total reflection, it is the critical angle. and when the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle, total internal reflection takes place and as it is necessary for total internal reflection to take place that the ray must travel from denser to rarer medium so, when it occurs, the ray is reflected bach into the denser medium.
What does refraction and reflection have to do with mirages?
Actually it is refraction process and specifically indentified as total internal reflection. The condition for total reflection is that the ray has to traverse from denser medium to the rarer medium and the angle of incidence has to be more than the critical angle.
What happens when the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle?
You get total internal reflection. That is, the incident beam bounces off the interface back into the medium.
Is the critical angle the same thing as the angle of incidence?
The critical angle is not the same thing as the angle of incidence. There is a reason the confusion. The critical angle is defined as the smallest angle of incidence which results in total internal reflection. Every plane wave incident on a flat surface has an angle of incidence. That can be any angle. When a wave travels from a dense medium to a less dense medium, there comes an angle of incidence where there is no transmission into the less dense medium. We say then that for an angle of incidence above the "critical angle" the result is total internal reflection. It is also true that with Snell's law, the critical angle is the particular angle of incidence which would result in a 90 degree angle of refraction.
When and why the internal reflection occurs?
Total internal reflection occurs when a light hits its medium at an angle wider than a certain critical angle, depending upon what's normal to that medium. If the refractive index and the incident angle on the other side are measured lower or greater, respectively, the light is totally reflected.
What occurs when light passes from one medium to a less optically dense medium at an angle so great that there is no refracted ray?
It is always refracted, but at an angle so that it goes back into the original medium. This phenomenon is called Total Internal Reflection. The angle that this occurs at is called the critical angle.
Why are diamonds are excellent with total internal reflection?
Refractive index of the medium is equated to 1/ sin C Here C is the critical angle. Diamond has high refractive index more than 2. So critical angle becomes very low. So for falling radiations at angles of incidence greater than this smaller value of critical angle, total internal reflection becomes possible.
What is internal reflection?
Total internal reflection can happen only when a beam of light travelling through a dense medium crosses the interface with a rarer medium. For example, through a glass piece to air. When such a beam reaches an interface it makes an angle (called the angle of incidence) with the perpendicular at that point. When the beam exits the interface into the rarer medium. it makes a larger angle(called the angle of refraction) with the same perpendicular. As the angle of incidence increases, so does the angle of refraction. There is one value of the angle of incidence for which the angle of refraction is 90 degrees and the emerging ray is tangential to the interface. This is called the critical angle. For all angles of incidence greater than the critical angle the incident ray will not emerge into the rarer medium at all. In stead it gets reflected back into the denser medium itself. This phenomenon is called total internal reflection. Rainbows are a result of this phenomenon.
What is total internal reflection?
Total internal reflection can happen only when a beam of light travelling through a dense medium crosses the interface with a rarer medium. For example, through a glass piece to air. When such a beam reaches an interface it makes an angle (called the angle of incidence) with the perpendicular at that point. When the beam exits the interface into the rarer medium. it makes a larger angle(called the angle of refraction) with the same perpendicular. As the angle of incidence increases, so does the angle of refraction. There is one value of the angle of incidence for which the angle of refraction is 90 degrees and the emerging ray is tangential to the interface. This is called the critical angle. For all angles of incidence greater than the critical angle the incident ray will not emerge into the rarer medium at all. In stead it gets reflected back into the denser medium itself. This phenomenon is called total internal reflection. Rainbows are a result of this phenomenon.
Why total internal reflection takes place?
It happens when light travels through a material that has a greater "optical density" (refraction index, really) than a bordering material, and when it touches the surface at an angle that is sufficiently flat.
