A ray of light is incident on the hypotenuse of a right-angled prism after travelling parallel to the base inside the prism. If ${\rm{\mu }}$ is the refractive index of the material of the prism, the maximum value of the base angle for which light is totally reflected from the hypotenuse is

${\cos ^{ - 1}}\,\,\left( {\frac{1}{{\rm{\mu }}}} \right)$

${\sin ^{ - 1}}\,\,\left( {\frac{1}{{\rm{\mu }}}} \right)$

${\tan ^{ - 1}}\,\,\left( {\frac{1}{{\rm{\mu }}}} \right)$

${\sin ^{ - 1}}\,\,\left( {\frac{{{\rm{\mu }} - 1}}{{\rm{\mu }}}} \right)$

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A ray of light is incident on the hypotenuse of a right-angled prism after travelling parallel to the base inside the prism. If

\mathrm{\mu }

is the refractive index of the material of the prism, the maximum value of the base angle for which light is totally reflected from the hypotenuse is

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Correct option: D

{\cos ^{ - 1}}\,\,\left( {\frac{1}{\mathrm{\mu }}} \right)

Option D (

{\cos ^{ - 1}}\,\left( {\frac{1}{\mathrm{\mu }}} \right)

) is correct because it represents the maximum base angle for total internal reflection to occur at the hypotenuse.