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A ray of light from a denser medium strikes a rarer medium at an angle of incidence I (see figure ). The reflected and refracted rays make an angle of `90^(@)` with each other. The angles of reflection and refraction are r and `r^(')` . The critical angle is

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`sin^(-1) (tan r)`
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