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Can anyone explain the relationship between the refractive index, the speed, wavelength and angle of a wave?
Can anyone explain the relationship between the refractive index, the speed, wavelength and angle of a wave?
in my book is states that $$n = \frac{v_1}{v_2} = \frac{\sin θ_1}{\sin θ_2} = \frac{λ_1}{...
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Generally speaking, the speed of a wave depends on the medium and the wave type, so waves of the same type in the same medium attain the same speed [duplicate]
My question is, given the above statement, why electromagnetic waves attain different speeds in media other than vacuum even though they are of the same type and propagate in the same medium?
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If both violet light and red light was incident on the center of a semi circular block, and refracted, would they have the same refraction angle?
As the violet and red light have the same speed in air, with the incident angle being less than the critical, with the violet light and the red light coinciding on each other, (like on top of each ...
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How to obtain the dispersive refractive index of a sample in a Michelson interferometer from the interferogram?
In the Michelson interferometer setup shown below, first I obtain the interferogram of the source (without sample). Then I put in the sample.
If the sample is not dispersive (its refractive index is ...
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Refractive index and electric susceptibility
Suppose we have a complex refractive index $n_{ref}=n+ik$ whose value is given at a precise frequency $\omega_l$ from experimental data. We know that the imaginary part is responsible for the loss/...
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Why do prisms work (why is refraction frequency dependent)?
It is well known that a prism can "split light" by separating different frequencies of light:
Many sources state that the reason this happens is that the index of refraction is different for ...
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