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Problem 48 Easy Difficulty

The angle of refraction of a ray of light traveling into an ice cube from air is $46^{\circ} .$ Find the angle of incidence.

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Thus, the angle of incidence is $\left[70.45^{\circ}\right]$

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all right. So for this problem we have a ray of light that's traveling from air into ice, and we know that the angle of refraction of light is 46 degrees. We want to know what's the angle of incidence, and the first thing that we know is that because we're traveling from a rare medium into a denser medium, the light must be tending towards the normal line as it changes mediums. So on the other side, in the very medium, it must be away from the normal line so that allow us to create this angle here. Saito one. The incident able that's see incident angle to the incident Ray, so we can then set up. Snell's law will say that the incident index of refraction and one times a sign of the incident angle Seattle one is going to be equal to the index of refraction in the river front or refractive medium and two times the sine of the angle of refraction they need to. So we can solve for fatal one in this equation by saying that fatal one is equal. The inverse sign of end to sign off a to two all divided by N one. And if we plug in our known values into this equation in the incident, angle should be able to the inverse sign event, to which we know to be 1.31 for ice, which we get out of the textbook times the sign 46 or angle of refraction feeder to all divided by one, which is the approximate index of refraction of air. If you plug this into our calculator correctly, the angle of incidence should be equal to 70.45 degrees.

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