Oil (n = 1.65) leaking from a damaged tanker creates a large oil slick on the harbour (n = 1.33). In order to determine the thickness of the slick, a plane is flown when the sun is overhead. The sunlight reflected from directly below the plane is found to have intensity maxima (correction: should be intensity minima) at 450 nm and 600 nm, and at no wavelengths in between. What is the thickness of the oil slick?

Oil (n = 1.65) leaking from a damaged tanker creates a large oil slick on the harbour (n = 1.33). In order to determine the thickness of the slick, a plane is flown when the sun is overhead. The sunlight reflected from directly below the plane is found to have intensity maxima (correction: should be intensity minima) at 450 nm and 600 nm, and at no wavelengths in between. What is the thickness of the oil slick?

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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