Materials that attracts magnet gets attracted to the magnet at both the North and South Pole. This can be compared to how neutral objects also gets attracted to the positively and negatively charged rod through the force of polarisation.
Among those two medium, light would travel faster in the one with a reflection angle of (when light enters from the air.)
Explanation:
Let denote the speed of light in the first medium. Let denote the speed of light in the air. Assume that the light entered the boundary at an angle of to the normal and exited with an angle of . By Snell's Law, the sine of and would be proportional to the speed of light in the corresponding medium. In other words:
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When light enters a boundary at the critical angle , total internal reflection would happen. It would appear as if the angle of refraction is now . (in this case, .)
Substitute this value into the Snell's Law equation:
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Rearrange to obtain an expression for the speed of light in the first medium:
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The speed of light in a medium (with the speed of light slower than that in the air) would be proportional to the critical angle at the boundary between this medium and the air.
For , is monotonically increasing with respect to . In other words, for in that range, the value of increases as the value of increases.
Therefore, compared to the medium in this question with , the medium with the larger critical angle would have a larger . such that light would travel faster in that medium.
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