Total internal reflection

A. Accounts for the brilliance of cut diamonds.
B. Allows light to travel in a curved path inside an optic fiber.
C. All of these are true.
D. Occurs when light strikes an interface at greater than the critical angle.


Ans: C. All of these are true.

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