A ray of light strikes the glass slab at an angle of 90°. What are the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction?

Since the ray strikes the glass slab at an angle of 90°. Therefore

Angle of incidence = 00.


Thus the ray of light will pass straight without any deviation as shown in the figure below.



Laws of Refraction of light;



Refractive index=1.5


Thus angle of refraction is given by



On solving, we get



Thus the angle of refraction is 0o


Thus the refracted ray is perpendicular to the surface of the glass slab as shown in the above diagram.


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