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Light travels through a fiber-optic cable at
PHYSICS · Subjective · A Level · Physics · Waves · Waves
Problem
Light travels through a fiber-optic cable at
2.00
×
10
8
m/s
2.00\times10^{8}\,\text{m/s}
2.00
×
1
0
8
m/s
. Determine the ratio of this speed to the speed of light in vacuum and state whether the glass in the cable is required for the light to propagate.
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