Question

diagram for refractive index

Answer 1

✔️what is refractive index?

⏹It tells us how the light would behave or the extent of refraction it will undergo as it passes through a given medium.

⏹ Its more of a material property and has no physical units.

✔️✔️Mathematically we represent it is as a ratio...

➖refractive index (n) = speed of light in vacuum (c) / speed of light in medium (v)