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Trapping Light in a Plastic - St. Mary's Physics Online

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  • If it's total, why can we see it?

  • @Nulono Rays that reach the boundary at an angle greater than the critical are completed reflected, and rays that are less than the critical leave the glass and become visible to you.

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  • This is how optic fiber works

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  • Optical fibre \m/

  • @Nulono in short the light needs to hit the tubing at an almost 90 degree angle to escape at any other angle it just bounces off

  • @Nulono in short the light needs to hit the tubing at an almost 90 degree angle to escape at any other angle it just bounces off

  • light is a wave.. this is why we have shadows.. so it[is possible for refraction and reflection.

  • @Nulono Tyndall Effect. 

  • what material did you use??

  • Bro What Is This ?

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