Question

A light ray incident on a block of glass makes an incident angle of 50.0° with the normal to the surface. The refracted ray in the block makes an 27.7° with the normal. What is the index of refraction of the glass?

Answer 1

Answer:

$n_{glass} = 1.65$

Explanation:

As we know that the angle of incidence is given as

$i = 50.0^o$

also we have angle of refraction as

$r = 27.7^o$

now by Snell's law we know that

$n_{air} sin i = n_{glass} sin r$

$1 sin50 = n_{glass} sin 27.7$

now we have

$n_{glass} = \frac{sin 50}{sin 27.7}$

$n_{glass} = 1.65$