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Wave Theory, Wavefronts & Doppler Effect

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Which set of colours will come out in air for a situation shown in figure?

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Answer: (a)

  1. Green just grazes the surface, so the angle of incidence equals the critical angle for green.
  2. sin⁡C=1/μ\sin C = 1/\mu; colours with smaller μ\mu (longer λ\lambda) have a larger critical angle, so for them i<Ci < C and they refract out.
  3. Blue and violet have larger μ\mu, so i>Ci > C and they are totally internally reflected.
  4. So the answer is (a) yellow, orange and red.
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