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A laser beam is incident on a 45°–45°–90° prism perpendicular to one of its faces, as shown in the figure below. The transmitted beam that exits the hypotenuse of the prism makes an angle of ? = 16.3° with the direction of the incident beam. Find the index of refraction of the prism.
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