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Total internal reflection can happen when light enters from rarer medium to denser medium.

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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A diver looking up through the water sees the outside world contained in a circular horizon. The refractive index of water is 4 3 , and the diver's eyes are 15 cm below the surface of the water. Then the radius of the circle is :
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A small coin is fixed at the center of the base of an empty cylindrical steel container having radius R=1 m and height d=4 m. At time t=0 s, the container starts getting filled with water at a flowrate of Q=0.1 m3/s without disturbing the coin. Find the approximate time when the coin will first be seen by the observer "O" from the height of H=5.75 m above and L=1.5 m radially away from the coin as shown in the figure. Refractive index of water is n=1.33.

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A green light is incident from the water to the air - water interface at the critical angle θc. Select the correct statement.
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Light guidance in an optical fiber can be understood by considering a structure comprising of thin solid glass cylinder of refractive index n1 surrounded by a medium of lower refractive index n2. The light guidance in the structure takes place due to successive total internal reflections at the interface of the media n1 and n2 as shown in the figure. All rays with the angle of incidence i less than a particular value im are confined in the medium of refractive index n1 . The numerical aperture (NA) of the structure is defined as sinim.

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For two structures namely S1 with n1=454 and n2=32 , and S2 with n1=85 and n2=75 and taking the refractive index of water to be 43 and that of air to be 1, the correct option(s) is (are)

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A transparent slab of thickness d has a refractive index n(z) that increases with z. Here z is the vertical distance inside the slab, measured from the top. The slab is placed between two media with uniform refractive indices n1 and n2>n1,  as shown in the figure. A ray of light is incident with angle θi from medium 1 and emerges in medium 2 with refraction angle θf with a lateral displacement l . Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true?
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Light guidance in an optical fiber can be understood by considering a structure comprising of thin solid glass cylinder of refractive index n1 surrounded by a medium of lower refractive index n2. The light guidance in the structure takes place due to successive total internal reflections at the interface of the media n1 and n2 as shown in the figure. All rays with the angle of incidence i less than a particular value im are confined in the medium of refractive index n1 . The numerical aperture (NA) of the structure is defined as sinim.

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If two structures of same cross-sectional area, but different numerical apertures NA1 and NA2 NA2<NA1 are joined longitudinally, the numerical aperture of the combined structure is

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A beam of light consisting of red, green and blue colours is incident on a right-angled prism. The refractive index of the material of the prism for the above red, green and blue wavelengths are 1.391.44 and 1.47 respectively.

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The prism will:
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A planar structure of length L and width W is made of two different optical media of refractive indices n1=1.5 and n2=1.44 as shown in figure. If LW, a ray entering from end AB will emerge from end CD only if the total internal reflection condition is met inside the structure. For L=9.6 m, if the incident angle θ is varied, the maximum time taken by a ray to exit the plane CD is t×10-9s, where t is ____.

[Speed of light c=3×108m s-1]
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If the refractive index of water with respect to air (μwa )  is 53.  Calculate the refractive index of air with respect to water (μaw ).

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What is the relation between the refractive index of water with respect to air μwa , and the refractive index of air with respect to water μaw .

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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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The diagram below shows a light source P embedded in a rectangular glass block ABCD of critical angle 42°. Complete the path of the ray PQ till it emerges out of the block. Write necessary angles.
 

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Pick the wrong answer in the context with rainbow.
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A ray of light is incident from a denser to a rarer medium. The critical angle for total internal reflection is θiC and Brewster's angle of incidence is θiB, such that sinθiCsinθiB=η=1.28. The relative refractive index of the two media is
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In total internal reflection, when the angle of incidence is equal to the critical angle for the pair of media in contact, what will be angle of refraction?
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A transparent cube of side d, made of a material of refractive index μ2, is immersed in a liquid of refractive index μ1 ( μ1<μ2). A ray is incident on the face AB at an angle θ (shown in the figure). Total internal reflection takes place at the point E on the face BC.

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Then, θ must satisfy
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A monochromatic light is incident from air on a refracting surface of a prism of angle 75o and refractive index n0=3. The other refracting surface of a prism is coated by a thin film of material of refractive index n as shown in figure. The light suffers total internal reflection at the coated prism surface for an incidence angle of θ60o. The value of n2 is_______.

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A diver, 30 m below water surface is trying to shine a torch light towards the point O which is horizontally 30 m away. The amount and direction in which diver has to swim (in the figure) so that the light can not travel outside the surface of water is (Refractive index of water =43)

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State one important factor which affects the critical angle of a given medium.