Timeline for Trapping light by total internal reflection
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| S Mar 6 at 20:31 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Mar 6 at 20:31 | history | suggested | HerrAlvé | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Highly edited the answer to make it much more readable.
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| Mar 6 at 18:09 | comment | added | CommunityBot | As it’s currently written, your answer is unclear. Please edit to add additional details that will help others understand how this addresses the question asked. You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center. | |
| Mar 6 at 17:15 | comment | added | The Fright Of The Night | In both the formulas I used (Snell's law and. U=cosec C), the refractive index used is the absolute refractive index of the denser medium with respect to the rarer one which is called the refractive index of the medium (here glass) (it is the velocity of light in the air divided by the velocity in glass). The RI is for light travelling from air to glass in both the formulas. | |
| Mar 6 at 16:15 | comment | added | HerrAlvé | Correct me if I am terribly mistaken, but I think you are wrong in considering the value of the refractive index. Since the light is moving from the glass to air, its RI will always be lesser than (or equal to) 1. Velocity of light in glass / velocity of light in air < 1 (and hence < √2). | |
| S Mar 6 at 15:52 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Mar 6 at 15:52 | history | answered | The Fright Of The Night | CC BY-SA 4.0 |