{"id":133477,"date":"2023-03-04T23:12:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=133477"},"modified":"2023-03-04T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:42:19","slug":"refractive-indices-of-glass-water-and-carbon-disulfide-are-1-5-1-33-and-1-62-respectively-if-a-ray-of-light-is-incident-in-these-media-at-the-same-angle-say-then-write-the-increasing-order-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/quiz\/refractive-indices-of-glass-water-and-carbon-disulfide-are-1-5-1-33-and-1-62-respectively-if-a-ray-of-light-is-incident-in-these-media-at-the-same-angle-say-then-write-the-increasing-order-of","title":{"rendered":"Refractive indices of glass, water, and carbon disulfide are 1.5. 1.33 and 1.62 respectively. If a ray of light is incident in these media at the same angle (say @), then write the increasing order of the angle of refraction in these media."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question :Refractive indices of glass, water, and carbon disulfide are 1.5. 1.33 and 1.62 respectively. If a ray of light is incident in these media at the same angle (say @), then write the increasing order of the angle of refraction in these media.<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer is -The angle of refraction depends on the refractive index of the medium. The formula for the angle of refraction is given by Snell&#8217;s law:<\/h3>\n<h3>n1sin(@1) = n2sin(@2)<\/h3>\n<h3>where n1 and n2 are the refractive indices of the two media and @1 and @2 are the angles of incidence and refraction, respectively.<\/h3>\n<h3>Given: Refractive index of glass (n1) = 1.5, refractive index of water (n2) = 1.33, and refractive index of carbon disulfide (n3) = 1.62<\/h3>\n<h3>Let us assume that the angle of incidence is the same for all three media, i.e., @1 = @ for all media.<\/h3>\n<h3>Then, the angle of refraction in each medium can be calculated as:<\/h3>\n<h3>@2 = sin^(-1)[(n1\/n2)sin(@)]<\/h3>\n<h3>@3 = sin^(-1)[(n1\/n3)sin(@)]<\/h3>\n<h3>Using the given values, we get:<\/h3>\n<h3>@2 = sin^(-1)[(1.5\/1.33)sin(@)] = sin^(-1)(1.128sin(@)) = 47.1\u00b0<\/h3>\n<h3>@3 = sin^(-1)[(1.5\/1.62)sin(@)] = sin^(-1)(0.925sin(@)) = 38.1\u00b0<\/h3>\n<h3>Therefore, the increasing order of the angle of refraction in these media is:<\/h3>\n<h3>Water &lt; Glass &lt; Carbon disulfide<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question :Refractive indices of glass, water, and carbon disulfide are 1.5. 1.33 and 1.62 respectively. If a ray of light is incident in these media at the same angle (say @), then write the increasing order of the angle of refraction in these media. The correct answer is -The angle of refraction depends on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":132233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quiz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133479,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133477\/revisions\/133479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}