Solved: Ptolemy, who lived in the city of Alexandria in

Chapter 7, Problem 113

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Ptolemy, who lived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt during the second century ad, gave the measured values in the following table for the angle of incidence u1 and the angle of refraction u2 for a light beam passing from air into water. Do these values agree with Snells Law? If so, what index of refraction results? (These data are of interest as the oldest recorded physical measurements.)

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