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An optical setup has a light ray, wavlength   550 nm    in vacuum, travelling   3.25 mm   . What is...

An optical setup has a light ray, wavlength   550 nm    in vacuum, travelling   3.25 mm   .

What is the optical path length in vacuum?

The apparatus is now submerged in a material of index of refraction   1.7  . What is the new optical path length?

The material is now submerged in a material of unkown n . The optical path length is   1.3×104  . What is the unknown n ?

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