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JEE Mains · Physics · STD 12 - Ray optics and optical instruments
  • JEE Mains 2022
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Consider a light ray travelling in air is incident into a medium of refractive index \(\sqrt{2 n}\). The incident angle is twice that of refracting angle. Then, the angle of incidence will be

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(D) \(2 \cos ^{-1}\left(\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}}\right)\)

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\(i=2 r\)

\(\sin i \times n_{1}=\sin r \times n_{2}\)

\(\sin i \times 1=\sin \frac{i}{2} \times \sqrt{2 n}\)

\(\frac{\sin i}{\sin \frac{i}{2}}=\sqrt{2 n}\)

\(\frac{\sin \frac{i}{2} \cos \frac{i}{2}}{\sin \frac{i}{2}} \sqrt{2 n}\)

\(\cos \frac{i}{2}=\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}}\)

\(\frac{i}{2}=\cos ^{-1}\left(\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}}\right)\)

\(i=2 \cos ^{-1}\left(\sqrt{\frac{n}{2}}\right)\)

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