Complete Question
An oil tanker has collided with a smaller vessel, resulting in an oil spill in a large, calm-water bay of the ocean. You are investigating the environmental effects of the accident and need to know the area of the spill. The tanker captain informs you that 18000 liters of oil have escaped and that the oil has an index of refraction of n = 1.1. The index of refraction of the ocean water is 1.33. From the deck of your ship you note that in the sunlight the oil slick appears to be blue. A spectroscope confirms that the dominant wavelength from the surface of the spill is 485 nm. Assuming a uniform thickness, what is the largest total area oil slick
Answer:
The largest total area of the oil slick 
Explanation:
From the question we are told that
The volume of oil the escaped is 
The refractive index of oil is 
The refractive index of water is 
The wavelength of the light is 
Generally the thickness of the oil for condition of constructive interference between the oil and the water is mathematically represented as

Where is the order of interference of the light and it value ranges from 1, 2, 3,...n
It is usually take as 1 unless stated otherwise by the question
substituting value
The are can be mathematically evaluated as

Substituting values


The law of universal gravitation says that one object attracts every other object using a proportional force to the mass of the object.
A closed circle means the number is included and an open circle means its not.
The frequency is
and it is blue light
Explanation:
The relationship between the speed, the frequency and the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave is given by:

where
is the speed of light
f is the frequency of the wave
is its wavelength
In this problem, the wavelength of the wave is

Therefore, its frequency is:

The wavelength of this wave is

And by looking at the table of the wavelengths of the colors, we notice that this corresponds to the blue light, which has a range of wavelength of
[450 - 495] nm
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