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You shine a laser on a plastic prism made from an unknownmaterial and measure the angles relative to the normal that thelight takes both inside and outside the medium. You make a plot ofsin ?inside versus sin?outside for the plastic object and calculatethe slope of best-fit line of your plot to be 0.79365 ± 0.05669.What is the index of refraction of the plastic object?

Correct Answer: 1.26 +/- 0.09

How do you get the 0.09 uncertainty?

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Using Snells lawn1 sino n2 siniWhere n1 is the refractive index of    See Answer
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