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A ray of light incident on a trasparent sphere at an angle 45degrees and refracted at an angle r, emerges from the sphere after suffering one internal reflection. The total angle of deviation of the ray is

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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer12 Years ago

Hello Student,

The total angle of deviation is equal to 2700.

The reason is when the light comes out of the sphere finally, it would have the same angle of refraction as the initial angle of incidence.

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Sumit Majumdar, 
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