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Q: Find the index of refraction in a medium in which the speed of light is 2.50 108 m/s.
A: Given data: Speed of light in medium (v) = 2.50×108 m/s Required: Index of refraction (n)
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- The speed of light in a certain material is measured to be 2.2 × 108 m/s. What is the index of refraction of this material? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)The speed of light in an unknown medium is measured to be 4.76 x 10^8 m/s. (a) What is the index or refraction of the medium?Compute the index of refraction for the substance where lightpropagates with speed V=1.1*10^ 8 m/s (speed of light in acuum isc=3*10^ 8 mis) Calculate to 2 decimals.
- A beam of light traveling in air strikes a slab of transparent material. The incident beam makes an angle of 60° with the normal, and the refracted beam make an angle of 50° with the normal. What is the speed of light in the transparent material? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s) Provide the answer: x 108 m/sA ray of light crosses the boundary between some substance with n = 1.46 and air, going from the substance into air. If the angle of incidence is 26◦ what is the angle of refraction?A ray of light crosses the boundary between some substance with n = 1.61 and air, going from the substance into air. If the angle of incidence is 18◦ what is the angle of refraction? Calculate to 1decimal.
- Refractive index of glass with respect to medium is 4/3. If (vm - vg) = 6.25 × 107 then velocity of light in medium is (a) 2.5x108 m/sec. (b) 1.5 x 107 m/sec. (c) 2.25 x 108 m/sec (d) 4.5 × 107 m/sec.A ray of light is incident on an air/water interface. The ray makes an angle of theta= 33 degrees with respect to the normal of the surface. The index of the air is n1 = 1 while water is n2 = 1.33. Numerically, what is the angle in degree?A laser beam has a velocity in a vacuum of c = 3 × 108 m/s. A student runs an experiment in which a liquid is placed in a tank of length L = 11.2 m. The time it takes for the beam to make it across the tank is timed to be t = 64 ns. (a) Write an expression for the liquid's index of refraction, n. (b) Numerically, what is this index?
- Comput the index of refraction for the substance where light propagates with speed V=2.8*10^8 m/sA beam of light traveling through a liquid (of index of refraction n1 = 2.11) is incident on a surface at an angle of θ1 = 22° with respect to the normal to the surface. It passes into the second medium and refracts at an angle of θ2 = 30.5° with respect to the normal. Part (a) What is the index of refraction of the second material? Part (b) What is the light's velocity in medium 1, in meters per second? Part (c) What is the light's velocity in medium 2, in meters per second?A beam of light traveling through a liquid (of index of refraction n1 = 1.3) is incident on a surface at an angle of θ1 = 55° with respect to the normal to the surface. It passes into the second medium and refracts at an angle of θ2 = 65° with respect to the normal. Part (a) Write an equation for the index of refraction of the second material. Part (b) What is the index of refraction of the second material? Part (c) Numerically, what is the light's velocity in medium 1, in meters per second? Part (d) Numerically, what is the light's velocity in medium 2, in meters per second?