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Unreasonable Results

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Light traveling from water to a gemstone strikes the surface at an angle of 80.0º\text{80} . 0º and has an angle of refraction of 15.2º\text{15} . 2º. (a) What is the speed of light in the gemstone? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 25.3 The Law of Refraction, exercise 30

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