Light Cone from Pool Bottom · CAP 2002 #10

Physics · optics

Problem

At the shallow end of a swimming pool, the water is 70.0 cm deep. The diameter of the cone of light emerging from the water into the air above, emitted by a light source 10.0 cm in diameter at the bottom of the pool and measured by an observer on the edge of the pool 2.50 m away, is (a) 1.60 m. (b) 1.70 m. (c) 1.75 m. (d) 1.80 m.

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