Refractive index of a transparent liquid measured with a concave mirror
Classical Physics
2013-01-22 v1 Optics
Abstract
This paper describes the spherical concave mirror method for measuring the index of refraction of transparent liquids. We derived the refractive index equation using Snell's law and the small-angle approximation. We also verified the validity of this method using the traditional spherical mirror and thin-lens Gaussian equations.
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@article{arxiv.1202.2404,
title = {Refractive index of a transparent liquid measured with a concave mirror},
author = {Amitabh Joshi and Juan D. Serna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2404},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
IOPart, 8 pages, 4 figures