State the conditions required for total internal reflection of light to take place.

ICSE Class 10 Physics PYQ · 2017 Paper · Section I

2(e)2 Marks · 2017 · Section I · 2017 Paper

State the conditions required for total internal reflection of light to take place.

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The conditions required for total internal reflection are:

  1. The light must travel from a denser medium to a rarer medium.
  2. The angle of incidence of light in the denser medium must be greater than the critical angle for that pair of media.
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