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A fish looking up through the water sees the outside world contained in circular horizon. If the refractive index of water is 43 and the fish is 12 cm below the surface, what is the radius of this circle (in cm)?

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Consider a glass cube slab of dielectric bound by the planes, x=0, x=a; y=0, y=b; z=0, z=c with b>a>c. The slab is placed in air and has a refractive index of n. The minimum value of n such that all rays entering the dielectric at y=0 reach y=b is,
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White light is incident on the interface of glass and air as shown in the figure. If green light is just totally internally reflected then the emerging ray air contains.
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A rod of glass (μ=1.5) and of the square cross-section is bent into the shape as shown in the figure. A parallel beam of light falls on the plane flat surface A as shown in the figure. If d is the width of a side and R is the radius of a circular arc, then for what maximum value of dR light entering the glass slab through surface A emerges from the glass through B?

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A light wave travels from glass to water. The refractive index for glass and water are 32 and 43, respectively. The value of the critical angle will be
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A ray of light travelling in a transparent medium of refractive index μ, falls on a surface separating the medium from air at an angle of incidence of 45°. For which of the following value of μ the ray can undergo total internal reflection?
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If light travels a distance x in time t1 in air and 10x distance in time t2 in a certain medium, then find the critical angle for total internal reflection, of the medium.
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The graph shows how the magnification m, produced by a convex thin lens, varies with the image distance v. What is the focal length?

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