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Chapter 25, Problem 19PE
Unreasonable Results
Light traveling from water to a gemstone strikes the surface at an angle of 80.0° and has an angle of refraction of 15.2°. (a) What is the speed at light in the gemstone? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
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