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This document contains a 10 question homework assignment on geometric optics and the nature of light. The questions cover topics like reflection, refraction at plane boundaries between media of different refractive indices, critical angles, and total internal reflection. Specific problems involve calculating refractive indices, angles of refraction and reflection, and determining depths visible based on refractive properties of materials like water.

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Physics ch35

This document contains a 10 question homework assignment on geometric optics and the nature of light. The questions cover topics like reflection, refraction at plane boundaries between media of different refractive indices, critical angles, and total internal reflection. Specific problems involve calculating refractive indices, angles of refraction and reflection, and determining depths visible based on refractive properties of materials like water.

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CSULA

PHYS 212

Fall12

Homework Assignment #3

Chapter 35: The Nature of Light and the Laws of Geometric Optics

1. Light is refracted through a diamond. If the angle of


6. The index of refraction for red light in water is 1.331 and
incidence is 30, and the angle of refraction is 12, what is
for blue light is 1.340. If a ray of white light enters the
water at an angle of incidence of 83, what are the
the index of refraction?
underwater angles of refraction for the blue and red
2. A diver shines an underwater searchlight at the surface
components of the light?
of a pond (n = 1.33). At what angle (relative to the
surface) will the light be totally reflected?
7. Two flat rectangular mirrors are set edge to edge and
3. A layer of water (n = 1.333) floats on carbon
tetrachloride (n = 1.461) contained in an aquarium. What
is the critical angle at the interface between the two
liquids?
4. A light ray is partially reflected and partially refracted at
a boundary between two media, the upper one having
index of refraction n, the lower one having index of
refraction n, as shown in the figure. Show that the
reflected ray is perpendicular to the refracted ray when:

n' n tan incident

5. A layer of kerosene (n = 1.45) is floating on water (n =


1.33). For what angles of incidence at the kerosenewater interface will light be totally internally reflected
within the kerosene?

placed perpendicular to a flat nonreflecting surface. The


edges of the two mirrors meet at a 30 angle. A light ray
that approaches mirror 1 is parallel to mirror 2. The angle
of reflection of that ray from mirror 1 is:
0 3060 90 120

8.

The wave front shown at the left for light in air


reaches the plane boundary between air and two
transparent mediums with n1 = 1.5 and n2 = 3.00
respectively.

Sketch a diagram that correctly illustrates the wave


front after it has entered the two mediums at the
right?
9. The laws of refraction and reflection are the same for
sound as for light. The speed of sound in air is 340 m/s
and in water it is 1510 m/s. If a sound wave approaches
a plane water surface at an angle of incidence of 12,
what is the angle of refraction?
10. A person looks horizontally at the edge of a swimming
pool. If its length is 5 m, and the pool is filled to the
surface, to what depth (in m) could the observer see? (n
for water is 1.33)

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