8J - Light workbook

Name __________

Effort grade ___

 1 Drawing light rays
Aim: To be able to correctly draw a scientific light ray.

Light rays always:

are drawn as a straight line with a pencil and ruler;

have one arrow per straight line to show the direction it is travelling in;

travel away from the light source;

show the reflected ray and the incident (incoming) ray touching where they reflect.

Complete the diagram - How we see luminous objects.

Check the grid above.

Eye

Complete the diagram - How we see the non-luminous leaf.

The rays must travel around the wall and reflect from the leaf.

Eye
 2 The law of reflection
Aim: Deduce the law of reflection.
Keywords
Plane mirror - A flat mirror, drawn as a straight line with dashes underneath.

Normal - An imaginary line that is draw straight up from where the light ray hits the mirror.

Angle of incidence - θi- The angle between the normal and the incident light ray.

Angle of reflection - θr - The angle between the normal and the reflected light ray.

Equipment:
● pencil, ruler and protractor
● plane mirror
● light ray box with single slit

Task: Reflect a light ray off a plane mirror and compare the angle of
incidence with the angle of reflection.
Method:
1. Collect your equipment. Set it up so that the single slit is in front of the light ray box.
2. Place the mirror on its side and angle the beam so that it reflects off the mirror.
3. Draw a line along the face of the mirror, with pencil.
4. Place 3 dots, a dot where the light ray leaves the light ray box, a dot where it hits the mirror
and finally a dot about 10cm on along the reflected light ray.
5. Join up the dots in the order you placed them and draw in the normal, using a ruler, as a dotted
line.
6. Using a protractor, with 0° on the normal line, measure the angle of incidence and angle of
reflection.
7. Repeat for different angles.

Results table Evaluation

θi θr
Were any angles of incidence different
Position 1 from the correlating angle of reflection? If
Position 2
so why do you think this was the case?
..................................................................................
Position 3 ..................................................................................
Position 4 ..................................................................................

Position 5

Position 6
Space for results

The law of reflection

Euclid said “The law of reflection,
The angle of reflection is ________ exactly _________ to the angle
of incidence”

He wrote it like this:

θi =
4 How we see colour
Aim: Use light ray diagrams to show absorption and
reflection of light.

R
G
B

R
G
B

R
G
B
5 Reflection applied
6 Cameras and eyes
7 Refraction
8 Investigating refraction
9 Reflection on refraction
10 Reflection on refraction
11 Light Keywords
 2 Seeing colour
Aim: To be able to correctly draw a scientific light ray

Seeing colour

White light is made from every colour.

The colour of an object is the colour of the light that the object reflects.

Other colours are absorbed by the.

Complete the diagrams:

Eye

Red object

Eye
White object

Eye
Black object