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ACTIVITY g ATM. \ _ a0 omeve refraction and lateral deviation of a beam of light incident ob vai YOU REQUIRE rectangular glass slab, a white sheet of paper, a drawing board, a half metre scale, protractor and pencil. * REREQUIS! TRY _AHEoRY [When a ray of light PO (called incident ray) falls on a glass slab obliquely, it bends while entering from air to glass and it proceeds along the direction OO’ (then, ray of ray) inside the glass. At O' the ray of lightmerges out of glass and in passing from glass to air bends 0'Q. This 0'@ ray is called the emergent ray which is parallel to the direction of inci have proceeded in the direction of PS in the absence of the glass slab ABCD. The perpendicular shift in the path of the incident ray, when it emerges out from the d as lateral displacement, or lateral shift or lateral deviation. “T Rarer medium (aie) 2 _Denser medium XS (alass) ' Thickness 1 of glass 1 slab(t) 1 fl {i Rarer N Medium (ait) ae Normal ! “ . In AO0'E, sin -)= OE = or d=00' sin (i - r) where d is lateral deviation ~/ In sono, ON” 6 oo = ON: 00° = cosr il Therefore, 00" = ON’ see r = ¢ see r where ¢ is the thickness of B cos r = ass slab. On substituting the values of 00’, [ d=tsecr sin : (<= roportional to the Thus, the lateral deviation for a given angle of incidence is directly propor slab Jace through a rectangular You will observe from the above activity, when the refraction takes place (i) Angle of incidence = Angle of emergence (ii) The emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray : ‘ion it ases. Jos the increase in angle of incidence, the angle of refraction incret SYSTEMATIC STEPS TO PERFORM THE ACTIVITY ite drawing sheet on it ‘lace a drawing board horizontally on a table and fix a white drawing shé drawing pins. 4 ein the glass slab in the middle of drawing sheet. : CAE Draw the boundary line ABCD at the base of the rectangular glass slab with a sharp p Fig. 4.2. Remove the glass slab. s » Mark a point O on one side (CD) of the boundary of glass slab. Draw a normal at point O d 7 Draw a line A,O which makes an angle of 35° with the normal NN’. You can. make this help of protractor. This angle is called the angle of incidence. 6. Fix the alpins 4, and A, on the line A,O at the points A, and A, in an upright position distance of 8 cm between them. 7. Place the glass slab in position. Rarer Medium (air) J¢-Giass slab x éE \M Refracted ray | |Denser mediurh\ Aligass) S | oF < Rarer Medium Lateral | (air) wees displacement | Fig, 42, Experimental arrangement for refraction of light trough @ lass slab 8. Look at the alpins through the other side AB alpins A, and A, respectively due to refractio 9. Bring your eye down in the horizontal plane slightly above i slab. Place your eye in line with the images A, and A of reo ee chee look the drawing sheet in upright position, So that A and A,, , It must be noted that the vertical side of exactly in the same straight line, of the glass slab. You will see n. the image A, ¢ gy fix another alpin A, also in the line with alpin A, and the images A,’ and A,’ as above 3 ee the glass slab from the drawing sheet and remove the alpins A,, A,, A, and A, one by one and raw small circles around the alpin points, ae. 12, Join the pricks made by alpins ‘A, and A, by a straight line and extend it to meet the boundary AB at some point O’ as shown in Fig. 4.2, i 13. Draw @ normal at point O' on the straight line AB and denote it as MOM’ 14. Join the 0 and Of by a straight line. This 00’ line gives the direction of the refracted ray into the glass slab for the incident ray 4,0, 15, Measure and record the angle of refraction 2O’ON’ and the angle of emergence 2M'0'A, in the observation table. 16. Repeat the above procedure for angles of incidence 45°, 55° and 65° also and record the measurment of angle of refraction and angle of emergence respectively in observation table. aaa 7-1. Least count of the protractor = degree 2. Least count of the metre scale = cm TABLE FOR MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES | 1 | sai | u = 2 45° 3, 55° 4 65° ULT ‘Attach drawing sheets of the traced path of a ray of light passing through a given rectangular glass slab shows that \_SeAwithin the experimental error, the angle of incidence Zi = the angle of emergence

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