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A person is lying on a diving board 3.00 m above the surface of the water in a swimming pool. She looks at a penny that is on the bottom of the pool directly below her. To her, the penny appears to be a distance of 7.00 m from her. What is the depth of the water at this point?

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The depth of water from this point is 5.332m

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01

Important Concepts

The object image relationship for a spherical reflecting surface is

n1s+n2s'=n2-n1R

Wheren2 andn1 are the refraction index of the surfaces

sis th object distance from the vertex of the spherical surface and

s'is the image distance from the vertex of the spherical surface andRis the radius of curvature of the spherical surface

02

Find the object distance

Here we have

n2=1 Since it is air.

n1=1.33

The image is located at

role="math" localid="1663910899695" s'=-7-3ms'=-4m

It is negative since the image is on the opposite side of the outgoing light.

We know since the surface of water-air interaction is planar hence R=∞

Input this information in the formula

n1s+n2s'=n2-n1∞n1s+n2s'=0n1s=-n2s'

Rearranging we have

s=n1s'n2=1.33×-4m-1s=5.332m

The depth of water from this point is 5.332m

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