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Mr.Thesaxman

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Huygen's principle states that
  1.there is a secondary rainbow with the spectral colors reversed from the primary rainbow.
  2.light has properties of both waves and particles.
  3.all points on a wave front can be taken as point sources of secondary spherical wavelets which construct the new position of the wave front as time passes.
  4.rainbows are a result of dispersion.

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A semicircular piece of glass has a beam of light entering the curved surface from air and then striking the flat surface at an angle of incident . What is the critical angle in the glass if the glass has an index of refraction 1.50 or 3/2?
 



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