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Question
Write a relationship between the angle of incidence and angle of refractions for a given pair of media.
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Solution
The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant for a given pair of media called the refractive index
`(sin i)/(sin r) = mu`
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