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When light travels from an optically denser medium to a rarer medium, why does the critical angle of incidence depend on the color of light?

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Solution

Critical angle is related to the refractive index of the medium as:

μ = 1 / sinC

Different colours have different wavelength and hence the refractive index is different for different colours.

Therefore critical angle depends on the colour of the light.


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