Find the speed of light in the plastic

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Light traveling in air is incident on the surface of a block of plastic at an angle of 61.0degree to the normal and is bent so that it makes a 46.5 degree angle with the normal in the plastic.

Find the speed of light in the plastic.

Use 3.00×10^8 ms for the speed of light in a vacuum.

v=____m/s

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