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Given information

Given Data :
 
For Light refraction :
 
Refractive index of air  
 
Incident angle    
 
The beam contains two wavelengths
 
Wavelength 1  
 
Wavelength 2  
 
The index of refraction for silicate flint glass for the first medium    
 
The index of refraction for silicate flint glass for the second medium  
 
The angles of each beam leave the prism  and   
 
 
 
 
 
 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
By snell's law, 
 
For case 1 :
 
By snell's law, we have
 
The Refractive index of air is equal to the Refractive index of the second medium
 
   

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