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A light beam travelling along the x axis with planar wavefront is incident on a medium of thickness t. In the region, where light is falling the refractive index can be taken to be varying such that dndy>0. The light beam on the other side of the medium will emerge.

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Parallel to the x-axis
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Bending downward
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Bending upward
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Split into two or more beams
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Solution

The correct option is C Bending upward
As μ increases the light ray bends towards the normal. Hence answer C.

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