The speed of the yellow light in a certain liquid is 2-4- 108ms-1- Find the refractive index of the liquid-

The speed of light in air is 3× 10^8 m/s The speed of light in the certain liquid is 2.4× 10^8 m/s Reffactive index (n)= velocity of light in vac ...

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The speed of the yellow light in a certain liquid is $2.4 \times 10^{8} m s^{- 1}$ . Find the refractive index of the liquid.

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The speed of light in air is $3 \times 10^{8} m / s$
The speed of light in the certain liquid is $2.4 \times 10^{8} m / s$

Reffactive index $(n) = \frac{v e l o c i t y o f l i g h t i n v a c c u m (c)}{v e l o c i t y o f l i g h t i n m e d i u m (v)}$
$n = \frac{3 \times 10^{8}}{2.4 \times 10^{8}}$
$n = 1.25$

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The speed of the yellow light in a certain liquid is 2.4×108ms−1. Find the refractive index of the liquid.

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The speed of the yellow light in a certain liquid is $2.4 \times 10^{8} m s^{- 1}$ . Find the refractive index of the liquid.