Light coming from a fish makes an incidence angle of 30° to normal under the water. The index of refraction of water is 1.33. A fisherman is looking at the fish through air. At what angle with the normal (6, ) will the fish appear to the fisherman? Use Snell's law: n, sin e, = n, sine,

Light coming from a fish makes an incidence angle of 30° to normal under the water. The index of refraction of water is 1.33. A fisherman is looking at the fish through air. At what angle with the normal (6, ) will the fish appear to the fisherman? Use Snell's law: n, sin e, = n, sine,

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