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A light beam strikes a plate of crown glass at an angle of 30 degrees. At what angle is it refracted?

Calculate the critical angle for the crown glass air boundary?

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A light beam strikes a plate of crown glass at an angle of 30 degrees. At what angle is it refracted?

Calculate the critical angle for the crown glass air boundary?

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Crown glass r (μ = 1.52)

An incident ray is incident on a plate of crown glass ...

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