When total internal reflection happens at a plastic-air interface

A. half the light is refracted.
B. half the light is reflected.
C. light hits the interface from the air side.
D. light hits the interface from the plastic side.
E. the law of reflection ceases to hold.


D. light hits the interface from the plastic side.

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The Big Bang is regarded as the expansion of

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When strong solar winds are displaced poleward by our magnetic fields, we get

A) the Van Allen radiation belts. B) intense auroral displays. C) sunspots. D) hurricanes in the tropics. E) droughts and dust bowls in the American West.

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