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What do you understand by the term refractive index of an optical medium?

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What do you understand by the term refractive index of an optical medium?

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The refractive index of an optical medium indicates how much the speed of light changes in that medium compared with its speed in vacuum. It is a dimensionless quantity.

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Chapter 4: Refraction of Light - EXERCISE-1 [Page 71]

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Goyal Brothers Prakashan A New Approach to ICSE Physics [English] Class 10
Chapter 4 Refraction of Light
EXERCISE-1 | Q 1. (c) | Page 71
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