A beam of light traveling through air is incident up a transparent material with refractive index 1.45 at an angle of ??θi=32.06 as shown in the image below. What is the angle of the transmitted ray (??θt) as measured with respect to the direction normal to the surface of the material

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A beam of light traveling through air is incident up a transparent material with refractive index 1.45 at an angle of ??θi=32.06 as shown in the image below.  What is the angle of the transmitted ray (??θt) as measured with respect to the direction normal to the surface of the material (dashed line in the image below).

Normal
Reflected
Incident
ray
ray
Transmitted
ray
Transcribed Image Text:Normal Reflected Incident ray ray Transmitted ray
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