Example 48 A crown glass prism of angle 5 is to be combined

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Example 48 A crown glass prism of angle 5 is to be combined with a flint glass prism in such a way that the mean ray passes undeviated find a the angle of the flint glass prism needed and b the angular dispersion produced by the combination when white light goes through it Refractive indices for red yellow and violet light are 1 514 1 517 and 1 523 respectively for crown glass and 1 613 1 620 and 1 632 for flint glass