A ray of light travels from a denser medium to a rarer medium. The reflected and the refracted rays are…
A ray of light travels from a denser medium to a rarer medium. The reflected and the refracted rays are perpendicular to each other. If ' $\mathrm{r}$ ' and ' $\mathrm{r}_1$ ' are the angle of reflection and refraction respectively and ' $\mathrm{C}$ ' is the critical angle, then the angle of incidence is
$\cot ^{-1}(\sin \mathrm{C})$
$\tan ^{-1}(\sin C)$
$\sin ^{-1}(\tan C)$
$\cos ^{-1}(\tan C)$
Solution
Since reflected and refracted rays are perpendicular to each other,
$\begin{aligned}
& r+r_1=90^{\circ} \\
& \therefore r_1=90^{\circ}-r
\end{aligned}$
Refractive index of the denser medium
$\begin{aligned}
& \mu=\frac{\sin r_1}{\sin r}=\frac{\sin \left(90^{\circ}-r\right)}{\sin r}=\frac{\cos r}{\sin r}=\cot r \\
& \text { Also, } \mu=\frac{1}{\sin C} \quad \therefore \frac{1}{\sin C}=\cot r \\
& \text { or } \sin C=\tan r=\tan i \\
& \therefore i=\tan ^{-1}(\sin C)
\end{aligned}$