⦁ Light coming from a fish makes an incidence angle of 30° to normal under the water. The index of refraction of water is 1.33. A fisherman is looking at the fish through air. At what angle with the normal will the fish appear to the fisherman? Use Snell’s law: .

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Answer:

snell's law = sinI /sin r

refractive index = sinI /sin r

1.33= 30 /sinR

sinR= 1.33×30

sinR=39.9

The angle with the normal by which the fish appear to the fisherman is 41.68 degrees.

What is Snell's law?

According to the Snell's law, the ratio of index of reflection of the different material is equal to the ratio of incident sine angle and reflective sine angle. It can be given as,

[tex]\dfrac{n_1}{n_2}=\dfrac{\sin\theta_2}{\sin\theta_1}[/tex]

Here (n₁ and n₂) are the index and reflective index and (θ₁ and θ₂) are the incident and reflected angle.

  • Light coming from a fish makes an incidence angle of 30° to normal under the water.
  • The index of refraction of water is 1.33. A fisherman is looking at the fish through air.

The index of refraction of air is 1. Thus, by the Snell's law,

[tex]\dfrac{1}{1.33}=\dfrac{\sin(30)}{\sin\theta_1}\\\theta_1=41.68^o[/tex]

Thus, the angle with the normal by which the fish appear to the fisherman is 41.68 degrees.

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