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state snell's law of refraction as well as reflection of light​

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Answered by ItzAdityaKarn
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When light travels from one medium to another, it generally bends, or refracts. The law of refraction gives us a way of predicting the amount of bend. This law is more complicated than that for reflection, but an understanding of refraction will be necessary for our future discussion of lenses and their applications. The law of refraction is also known as Snell's Law, named for Willobrord Snell, who discovered the law in 1621.

Snell's Law

Like with reflection, refraction also involves the angles that the incident ray and the refracted ray make with the normal to the surface at the point of refraction. Unlike reflection, refraction also depends on the media through which the light rays are travelling. This dependence is made explicit in Snell's Law via refractive indices, numbers which are constant for given media1.

Snell's Law is given in the following diagram.

As in reflection, we measure the angles from the normal to the surface, at the point of contact. The constants n are the indices of refraction for the corresponding media.

Tables of refractive indices for many substances have been compiled.

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Answered by poojasengundhar
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Snell's Law is especially important for optical devices, such as fiber optics. Snell's Law states that the ratio of the sine of the angles of incidence and transmission is equal to the ratio of the refractive index of the materials at the interface.21-Oct-2020

Soda-Lime Glass: 1.46

Air: 1.000293

Water: 1.333

Explanation:

Snell's law (also known as Snell–Descartes law and the law of refraction) is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water, glass, or air.

(i) The incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal ray at the point of incidence, lie in the same plane. (ii) The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

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