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Total internal reflection (ICSE CLASS 10)

When a ray of light travels from denser to rarer medium at the angle of incidence greater than critical angle for the pair of media, the ray gets reflected back to the denser medium without any loss of energy. This phenomenon is called total INTERNAL reflection.


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