A semicircular piece of glass has a beam of light entering the curved surface from air and then striking the flat surface at an angle of incident ?. What is the critical angle in the glass if the glass has an index of refraction 1.50 or 3/2?

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A Jurassic dinosaur is approaching your vehicle and appears in the side-view mirror. It is larger than it appears in the mirror. This means that

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