Figure P.4.14 is a plot of the sine of the angle-of-incidence versus the sine of the transmission angle measured as light passed from air into a more optically dense medium. Discuss the curve. What is the significance of the slope of the line? Guess at what the dense medium might be.

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Figure P.4.14 1.00 O 0.75 0.50 0.25 0 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 sin 0; sin 0,