An oil tanker has collided with a smaller vessel, resulting in an oil spill in a large, calm-water bay of the ocean. You are investigating the environmental effects of the accident and need to know the area of the spill. The tanker captain informs you that 22000 liters of oil have escaped and that the oil has an index of refraction of n = 1.1. The index of refraction of the ocean water is 1.33. From the deck of your ship you note that in the sunlight the oil slick appears to be blue. A spectroscope confirms that the dominant wavelength from the surface of the spill is 480 nm. Assuming a uniform thickness, what is the largest total area of the oil slick?

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Q: A laser beam enters a glass slab by making an angle 60° with the glass surface. What is the beam's…

A: Given- Glass slab by making an angle θ=600Refractive index of air ni=1Refractive index of glass…

Q: Chapter 25: Problem 4: For convenience, the index of refraction for a variety of materials is…

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Q: A laser beam has a velocity in a vacuum of c = 3 × 108 m/s. A student runs an experiment in which a…

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Q: A scuba diver is submerged in a pool of liquid having an index of refraction n. He looks up at the…

A: Given that, the refractive index of the pool is n=1.75 And the angle from the normal to the light…

Q: You send a beam of light from a material with index of refraction 1.19 into an unknown material. In…

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Q: A scientist is carrying out an experiment to determine the index of refraction for a partially…

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Q: Air has an index of refraction of 1.00. Water has an index of refraction of 1.33. Consider a pool of…

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Q: A point source of light is submerged 3.1 m below the surface of a lake and emits rays in all…

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Q: We know that the index of refraction of materials can help identify those materials. A light beam is…

A: As per Brewster’s law: n=tan θ  n= tan 46o = 1.0355

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Q: flashlight is held at the edge of a swimming pool at a height h = 1.9 m such that it’s beam makes an…

A: h = 1.9 m d = 1.25 m θ = 46on1 = 1n2 = 1.33

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Q: Camilla sets the index of refraction and angle of incidence to some values (any particular values…

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Q: A beam of light reflects and refracts at point A on the interface between material 1 with index of…

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Q: Students in a lab group are given a plastic cube with a hollow cube-shaped space in the middle that…

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Q: The drawing shows a ray of light traveling from point A to point B, a distance of 7.00 m in a…

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Q: A thick layer of oil (n = 1.2) rest on top of a deep bucket of water (index of refraction n = 1.33).…

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Q: A ray is traveling in material a when it reaches an interface with material b, where ng < na. If the…

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Q: Five transparent sheets of materials with different indexes of refraction are submerged in water and…

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Q: A beaker with a mirrored bottom is filled with a liquid whose index of refraction is nliq = 1.41. A…

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Q: A parallel-sided plate of glass having a refractive index of 1.60 is in contact with the surface of…

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Q: Snell’s Law relates the angle of incidence with the angle of refraction as n1 sin θ1 = n2 sin θ2. If…

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Q: The speed of light ?c in a vacuum is 2.997×108 m/s. a) Given that the index of refraction in…

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Q: An oil film floats on a water surface. The indices of refraction for water and oil, respectively,…

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Q: The index of refraction of the Earth's atmosphere is very close to 1. Research in the 1970s measured…

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Q: An engineer is carrying out an experiment to determine the index of refraction for a partially…

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Q: A beaker with a mirrored bottom is filled with a liquid whose index of refraction is nliq = 1.05. A…

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Q: The index of refraction for violet and orange light in flint glass are respectively 1.698 and 1.665.…

A: The refractive index is given by, n=cv the formula above indicated that n is inversely proportional…

Q: Windshield contains 2.00 mm thick glass with an index of refraction of 1.518 and is coated with a…

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Q: at is the index of refraction of a refractive liquid if the angle of incidence in the AIR is 35…

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Q: Homework 11, Problem 7

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Q: A catfish is 1.8 m below the surface of a smooth lake. (a) What is the diameter of the circle on the…

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Q: Physicians use high-frequency (f = 195 MHz) sound waves, called ultrasound, to image internal…

A: Given data na=1θa=9.73°

Q: The index of refraction of the core of a piece of fiber optic cable is 1.72. If the index of the…

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Interference of Light

The word "constructive" signifies addition in interference. Constructive interference occurs when the path of the waves that start from the slit differs by 1 entire wavelength or in the intervals of the same. Hence, the waves that are presented on the screen are in phase (crest to crest/trough to trough). The waves interfering constructively forms bright fringes on the screen.