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Physics Paper 2, May/June. 2012  
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Question 3

A ray of light is incident on an air-glass boundary at an angle t? If the angle between the partial reflected ray and the refracted ray is 90°, calculate θ given that the refractive index of glass is 1.50

         

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 This question is unpopular as many candidates avoided it. Those who attempted it failed.
The problem was with the trigonometric function of linking the angle of refraction to sin (90- θ)
= Cos θ
The expected answer is:
               n = Sin θ
              Sin r
               =    Sin θ
              Sin (90- θ)
       =     Sin θ
              Cos θ
       =     tan θ
       Θ= (1.5) = 56.31°

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