Index of refraction?
Light travels a distance of 0.941m in 4.01ns in a given substance.
What is the index of refraction of this substance?
Light travels a distance of 0.941m in 4.01ns in a given substance.
What is the index of refraction of this substance?
1 Answer
Mar 18, 2018
I tried this:
Explanation:
We can evaluate the speed of light in this medium:
the index of refraction can be written as:
representing the ratio between the speed in vacuum and the speed in a medium.
So we get: