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What is total internal reflection?
Explain total internal reflection of light.
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Solution
Total internal reflection is the phenomenon when a ray of light travelling in a denser medium is incident at the surface of a rarer medium such that the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle for the pair of media, and the ray is totally reflected back into the denser medium.
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