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Disappearing pencil
Criteria for total internal reflection
Critical angle and refractive index
Check-point 5
Examples of total internal reflection
Check-point 6
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Disappearing pencil
Insert a pencil into an empty
test tube.
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2.2 Total internal reflection
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1 Criteria for total internal reflection
Three rays hitting the inside face of a
semicircular glass block at different angles:
Critical angle (C ) :
angle of incidence at
which the r = 90
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2 Critical angle and refractive index
Angle of incidence in a medium = C when
angle of refraction in air = 90,
i.e. n sin C = 1 sin 90
1 1
n= or C = sin1
sin C n
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2 Critical angle and refractive index
The following figure shows how the reflected and
refracted rays change:
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Check-point 5 Q1
Which of the following angles indicates
the critical angle for a glass-air interface?
A B
C D
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Check-point 5 Q2
Complete the following table.
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a Optical fibres
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3 Examples of total internal reflection
b Using prisms as mirrors
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b Using prisms as mirrors
hot air
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3 Examples of total internal reflection
e Fish-eye view
A fish or a diver underwater
can see everything above the
water surface, but the view is
squeezed into a cone with an
angle ~ 98.
Outside the cone, water
surface looks like a mirror.
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Check-point 6 Q2
A horizontal light ray is incident on a prism.
Which ray diagram is correct?
(Critical angle of the prism = 42)
A B C
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The End
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