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The absolute refractive indices of water and glycerine are 1.33 and 1.46 respectively. Find the critical angle for a ray travelling from glycerine into water.

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An equilateral prism of glass of refractive index 1.45 is immersed in water of refractive index 1.33. A narrow beam of light falls normally on one face of the prism. Find the angle of emergence of the beam.
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A small bulb is placed at the bottom of a tank containing water to a depth of 80 cm. What is the area of the surface of water through which light of the bulb can emerge out? Refractive index of water is 1.33. Consider the bulb to be a point-source.

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A point-source of light is placed at the centre of the bottom of a jar having a liquid of refractive index 53. An opaque disc of radius 1.0 cm is placed on the liquid surface with its centre vertically above the source. What is the maximum height of the liquid for which the source is not visible from above?

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An observer can see the top end B of a thin rod of height h, through a pin-hole. The height of the beaker is 3h, and the radius is h. When the beaker is filled with a liquid up to a height 2h, the observer can see the lower end A of the rod. The refractive index of the liquid is:

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An air bubble in a glass slab with refractive index 1.5 (near normal incidence) is 5 cm deep when viewed from one surface and 3 cm deep when viewed from the opposite face. The thickness (in cm) of the slab is:

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A container is filled with water (n=1.33) up to a height of 33.25 cm. A concave mirror is held 15 cm above the water level, and the image I of an object O placed at the bottom is formed 25 cm below the water level. The focal length of the mirror is roughly:

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A ball is dropped from a height of 20 cm above the surface of water in a lake. The refractive index of water is 43. A fish inside the lake, in line of fall of the ball, is looking at the ball. At an instant, when the ball is 12.8 m above the water surface, the fish sees the speed of the ball as:

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A point source S is placed at the bottom of a transparent block of height 10 mm and refractive index 2.72. It is immersed in a lower refractive index liquid as shown in the figure. It is found that the light emerging from the block to the liquid forms a circular bright spot of diameter 11.54 mm on the top of the block. The refractive index of the liquid is:

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