Question: Snell's law describes the relationship between the angle a light ray makes as it leaves a surface, the angle it makes incident on the surface,

Snell's law describes the relationship between the angle a light ray makes as it leaves a surface, the angle it makes incident on the surface, and the indices of refraction on both sides of the surface. If light incident in air at angle of 30 degrees from the normal onto glass with an index of refraction of 1.5 --

Pick the two answers that apply

A. the light inside the material leaves the surface farther from the surface, makes a smaller angle with the normal, than the entering light makes

B. The angle is too steep for light to refract and it is all reflected.

C. the light inside the material leaves the surface is closer to the surface, makes a bigger angle with the normal, than the entering light makes

D. There is light reflected back into the air from the surface at the same angle to the surface that it had initially

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