Determine the least value of n

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Q. A glass paperweight with an index of refraction n rest on a desk, as shown below. An incident ray of light enters the horizontal top surface of the paperweight at an angle of 77 degrees to the vertical. Determine the least value of n for which there is total internal reflection on the vertical surface?

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