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! *YOUR  CHALLENGE*   :   
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! *CHALLENGE n°1* : The enigma of the cup of icecream.
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! Why does the volume of the cup seem to be completely filled with ice cream, when it contains so little?
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! I choose this challenge.
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! Information : the refractive index of the air is $n_1=1$, the one for the cup is $n_2=1.5$. a $R_1$ is the inner radius of the cup, $R_2$ its outer radius.
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! _Don’t look at the answer, take some time to think, a few days if necessary. The time to build your mental representation of the phenomenon, to formulate it in words is important, a thousand times more important than the ephemeral moment of reading the few words of the solution._
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! CLUE 1 : keywords
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! angle of total reflection.
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! CLUE 2  : trail
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! The colored ray that reaches the eye of the observer comes from a point of the strawberry ice cream located at the interface with the inner wall of the glass cup.
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! ANSWER
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! to write
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! *CHALLENGE n°2* : Automatic rain detector
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! How to detect the rain on a windshield, the detection system being inside the car?
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! I choose this challenge
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! Information : the refractive indices of air, water and glass of the windshield are respectively $n_ {air} = 1$, $n_ {glass} = 1.5$ and $n_ {water} = 1.33$. The detection system includes a diode light emitter and then a light detector, both attached to the windshield on the inside of the car. The light emitted by the diode propagates in the windshield.
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! _Don’t look at the answer, take some time to think, a few days if necessary. The time to build your mental representation of the phenomenon, to formulate it in words is important, a thousand times more important than the ephemeral moment of reading the few words of the solution._
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! <summary>
! CLUE 1 : keywords
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! total reflection angle
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! CLUE 2 : trail
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! Both the light emitter and the light receiver are in contact with the windshield inside the car. The refractive interface of the windshield on the outside of the car is a glass-air refracting surface if it does not rain, and a glass-water refracting surface if there is a drop of water.
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! ANSWER
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! to write
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! *CHALLENGE n°3* : A multi touch screen technology (challenge under construction)
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! *CHALLENGE n°4* : Luminous fountain (challenge under construction)
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