Scientists plan to release a space probe that will enter the atmosphere of a gaseous planet. The temperature of the gaseous plan
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Answer:
a) Red: 1.34
Violet: 1.40
b) Red:
Violet:
Explanation:
a) We should use Snell's law to find the index of refraction:
with n1 the index of refraction of air, n2 the index of refraction of the glass, θi the angle of the incident ray respects the normal an θt the angle between the refracted ray an the normal. It's common to approximate n1=1
solving n2 for red light:
solving n2 for violet light:
b) Index of refraction on a medium is defined as the ratio between the velocity of electromagnetic waves on vacuum (velocity of light c) and the velocity in medium (v):
solving v for red:
solving v for violet