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Select the correct option for each of the following questions The diagram below shows a ray of light travelling from air into a glass material as shown below. Answer the questions that follow:
Select a correct statement from the following. (a) The speed of light at the curved surface AD does not change while entering the block. (b) The ray at the surface AD is not travelling along the radius of the curved part (c) The ray at the surface AD is travelling along the radius of the curved part. (d) Light never refracts when it enters a curved surface.
Topic: Refraction / total internal reflection
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(c) The ray at the surface AD is travelling along the radius of the curved part.
Explanation
Hence it enters undeviated.
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