Question: Someone is looking from above the liquid surface at an angle of 38 with the normal angle downwards into a tank of 3.7 m
Someone is looking from above the liquid surface at an angle of 38 ° with the normal angle downwards into a tank of 3.7 m depth with horizontal bottom and filled with a transparent liquid. How deep does the tank appear to this observer?
The relative refractive index of the fluid to air is 1.40.
Select the correct answer from the following list:
a) 20.1 dm
b) 26.6 dm
c) 2.31 m
d) 1.45 m
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