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Unpolarized light is incident on a plane surface of glass of refractive index `mu` at angle `i`. If the reflected light gets totally polarized, write the relation between the angle `i` and refractive index `mu`.

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According to Brewster's Law,
`mu = tan i_(p) = tan i`
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