Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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Chapter 37, Problem 26SP
A block of clear ice sits on top of a cube of dense flint glass. A laser beam traveling in the glass reaches the glass-ice interface at an angle of 65.0° with respect to the normal. If the beam has an irradiance of
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Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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