An equilateral prism is made of glass whose refractive index for red and violet light…

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Problem

An equilateral prism is made of glass whose refractive index for red and violet light is 1.510 and 1.550 respectively. White light is incident at an angle of incidence

i

and the prism is set to give minimum deviation for red light. Find Given


$\theta =$	$28^\circ$	$32^\circ$	$50^\circ$	$55^\circ$
$\sin \theta =$	0.487	0.529	0.755	0.819

(1) angle of incidence (2) angular dispersion (i.e., angular width of the spectrum).

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