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Physics Experiment: Light Refraction

1. The document describes an experiment to observe refraction and lateral deviation of light passing through a glass slab. Materials needed include a glass slab, drawing board, pins, paper, protractor, pencil, and ruler. 2. The procedure involves fixing a paper on a drawing board, placing the glass slab in the middle, and marking its boundaries. An incident ray is drawn making an angle i with the normal. Pins are placed along this ray and their images noted on the other side of the glass. 3. Observations are recorded of the angles of incidence and refraction, thickness of the glass slab, and lateral displacement. Calculations are done to determine the theoretical lateral displacement.

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Physics Experiment: Light Refraction

1. The document describes an experiment to observe refraction and lateral deviation of light passing through a glass slab. Materials needed include a glass slab, drawing board, pins, paper, protractor, pencil, and ruler. 2. The procedure involves fixing a paper on a drawing board, placing the glass slab in the middle, and marking its boundaries. An incident ray is drawn making an angle i with the normal. Pins are placed along this ray and their images noted on the other side of the glass. 3. Observations are recorded of the angles of incidence and refraction, thickness of the glass slab, and lateral displacement. Calculations are done to determine the theoretical lateral displacement.

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Aim

To observe refraction and lateral deviation of a beam of light incident on a glass slab.

Apparatus and Material Required


Glass slab (size 10x6 cm), drawing board, drawing pins, plane sheet of paper, pins,
common scale, protractor, pencil, rubber, cello tape, a sharply pointed pencil, a half
meter scale.

Procedure
1. Fix a white paper sheet by drawing pins and drawing board.
2. Take a glass slab and put it symmetrically in the middle of the paper and mark its
boundary ABCD.
3. Draw a normal at point Q on face AB and draw a line PQ making an angle i with
the normal. PQ will represent an incident ray.
4. Fix two points 1 and 2 on the line PQ at distance of 10 cm or more between
themselves.
5. See images of these two pins through face DC and fix two more pins at points 3
and 4 (10 cm or more apart) such that these two pins cover the images of first two
pins, all being along a straight line.
6. Remove the glass slab. Draw straight line RS through points 3 and 4 to present
emergent ray. Join QR to represent refracted ray.
7. Draw normal at point R on face DC and measure angle e. It comes to be equal to i.
8. Produce PQ forward to cut DC at N. Draw RK perpendicular to PN. RK measures
lateral displacement at d.

Observations
Angle of Incidence, i...............
Angle of refraction, ...............
Thickness of glass slab, t – AD=............ cm
Lateral displacement, d – TU=.............. cm
Calculations

Theoretical Value of displacement d = t sec r sin(i-r) .............. cm

Difference between measured and theoretical value of lateral displacement = ........cm

Conclusion / Result

1. The ray of light emitting out from a glass slab is parallel to the direction of
incident ray, but is laterally deviated.

2. The angle of incident is equal to the angle of emergence, i.e. i = e.

3. The lateral deviation of emergent ray w.r.t. incident ray is directly proportional to
the thickness of glass slab.
Precautions

1. The Upper surface of drawing board should be soft so that the pins can be
penetrated easily.

2. The all pins must be vertically fixed on the board.

3. A sharp pencil should be used to draw boundary of the glass slab.

4. The glass slab should be of uniform thickness.

5. To locate the incident ray and emergent ray with greater accuracy, the distance
between pins should be 6 cm to 8 cm.

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