JEE Main & Advanced JEE Main Paper (Held On 26 May 2012)

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    A beam of light consisting of red, green and blue colours is incident on a right-angled prism on face AB. The refractive indices of the material for the above red, green and blue colours are 1.39, 1.44 and 1.47 respectively. A person looking on surface A C of the prism will see   JEE Main Online Paper (Held On 26-May-2012)  

    A) no light

    B)                        green and blue colours

    C)                         red and green colours

    D)                         Red colour only

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                    For light to come out through face 'AC', total internal reflection must not take place. i.e.,\[\theta <c\Rightarrow \sin \theta <\sin c\]\[\Rightarrow \]\[\sin \theta <\frac{1}{\mu }\] or\[\mu <\frac{1}{\sin \mu }\Rightarrow \mu <\frac{1}{\sin {{45}^{o}}}\] \[\Rightarrow \mu <\sqrt{2}\Rightarrow \mu <1.414\]


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