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Light from the sun passes through the top of Earth’s atmosphere and is deflected by an angle theta. What is the numerical value of in degrees? Is it at least as large as the angle required to deflect sunlight hitting the top of the earth’s atmosphere onto the moon?
Transcribed Image Text:01=90°
D=?
R.
1 02=?
atmosphere
h
Earth
Moon
Transcribed Image Text:n 1.00000 (index of refraction of vacuum)
n2= 1.00029 (index of refraction of atmosphere)
(thickness of atmosphere)
h= 20 km
R radius of the earth 6380 km.
R= radius of the moon 1740 km
L-distance between earth and moon 385,000 km
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O 1.38 °, yes
O none of these
O 8.62°, yes
O 0.63 °, no
O 2.49 °, no
O 1.4°, no
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