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TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION

1. Explain what you understand by the term critical angle as applied in


optics (1 mk)

2. State two conditions necessary for total internal reflection to occur


2 mks

3. State TWO uses of total internal reflection.

4. Give one use of an optical fibre.


(1mk)

5. State two uses of optical fibres whose working relies on total internal
reflection.
(2mk)
6. Kenya launched the use of optical fibres in communication recently.
State why optical fibres are preferred to ordinary cables.

7. A glass prism of has refractive index of 1.5. Calculate the critical angle
of this glass prism (3mk)
4
8. The refractive index for air to water is 3 , find the critical angle C for
water – air interface

9. Critical angle of a material is 420, determine the angle of retraction of


light in the material if theincidence angle is 30 0.
(2 mks)

10. The refractive index for air-water boundary is 4/3. Calculate the critical
angle for water–air interface.

11. Explain with an aid of a diagram why to a diver under water, most of the
surface looks slivery. Bubbles of air rising from the diver look slivery.
(2mk)

12. Explain with the aid of a diagram, how a suitable glass prism may be
used to turn a ray of light 1800

13. Light travels from glass to air as shown. The refractive index of glass 1.5
Air

Glass X0
n=5
(a) Determine angle x
(2mk).
b). What name is given to angle x?
(1mk)

14. The figure below shows the path of a ray of light passing through a
rectangular glass block placed in air.
Air
Glass
0
42

Ray

Calculate the refractive index of glass. (2mk)

15. Complete the path of the ray shown until when it leaves the glass prism,
given that the criticalangle from glass is 420. (Show all the angles).
(n = 3/2 for glass)

300
16. Complete the path of the ray shown until when it leaves the glass prism,
given thatrefractive indexfor glass is n= 1.5 and the critical angle of
glass is 420. (Show all the angles). (3mk)

450

17. The figure below shows two rays of light incident normally on one face
of a glass prism, whose critical angle is 42º .

450
Complete the diagram to show the paths of the two rays as they pass
through the prism.
3mks

18. Two rays are incident on the base of a triangular prism whose angles
0
areα =30 as shown in the figure below. If the refractive index is n=1. 414 ,
determine the angle between the two emergent rays.
(3mks)

19. Figure 6 show a ray of light incident on the face of a water prism.

Air Water

450
450
Sketch the path of the rays as it passes through the prism. Critical
angle for water is 490

20. The fig 1 below shows a ray of light incident on a glass prism
A B
400 400

1000
C
Given that the critical angle for the grass is 39 , sketch on the
0

diagram the path of the ray through the prism (2


mk)

21. The figure below shows two rays A and B entering a semi circular glass
block which has critical angle of 420. The rays are incident at an air
glass boundary at point O

Air

O
Glass
0
45
300
A

Complete the path of the two rays from point O. Label A1 and B1 the
corresponding rays.

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