The angle between the incident ray and the emergent ray in a glass prism is called as

angle of emergence

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angle of reflection

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angle of refraction

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angle of deviation

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The correct option is D angle of deviation
When a beam passing through an object like glass prism it gets deflected twice, once while entering into glass prism and secondly when exiting from the prism. The sum of these two deflections is known as deviation angle or angle of deviation.

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The angle between incident ray and emergent ray of prism is called

A ray of light is incident on an equilateral glass prism placed in minimum deviation position.

How are angle of incidence and angle of emergence related to each other in this position of the prism?

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