NEW ERA SR.

SECONDARY
SCHOOL Auroville
PHYSICS INVESTIGATORY
PROJECT (2022 – 2023)
REFRACTIVE INDICES OF
VARIOUS MEDIUMS

done by:
Porkodivendhan.R
Class-XII-SCIENCE
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It is hereby to certify that, the original and

genuine investigation work has been carried
out to investigate about the subject matter and
the related data collection and investigation
has been completed solely, sincerely and
satisfactorily done by Porkodivendhan.R of
Class XII, NESS,, regarding the project titled,
“REFRACTIVE INDICES OF VARIOUS
MEDIUMS”
ACKNOWLEDGEMEn
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The successful completion of any task would be
incomplete without mentioning the names of those
persons who helped to make it possible. I take this
opportunity to express my gratitude in few words
and respect to all those who helped me in the
completion of this project. It is my humble
pleasure to acknowledge my deep senses of
gratitude to my Physics teacher, Evijiniya for her
valuable support, constant help and guidance at
each and every stage, without which this project
would not have come forth. I also register my
sense of gratitude to our principal, Mr.Anbu, for
his immense encouragement that has made this
project successful. I would also like to thank my
friends and family for encouraging me during the
course of this project. Last, but not the least, I
would like to thank CBSE for giving us the
opportunity to undertake this project.
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 AIM
To find out the refractive indices of
different liquids using a hollow prism

Apparatus Required
● Hollow glass prism
● Various liquids like water, carbon
disulphide, benzaldehyde etc.
● Bell pins
● Drawing board

THEORY
PRISM:A prism is a transparent optical element
with flat, polished surfaces that refract light.
Prisms can be made from any material that is
transparent including  glass, plastic  and fluorite.
A prism can be used to break light up into its
constituent spectral colours. Prisms can also be
used to reflect light, or to split light into
components with different polarizations.

REFRACTION:

The refractive index of the liquid

Is given by the formula:

Where:
= refractive index of the liquid
= the angle of minimum deviation
r = angle of refraction
i = angle of incidence
A = angle of prism

FLUIDS
REFRACTIVE INDEX
Water
Carbon Disulphide
Benzaldehyde

PROCEDURE
 Fix a white sheet of paper on the drawing
board with help of drawing pins.
 Keep the prism and mark the outline of it as
ABC.
 Drop a normal PQ on the side AB.
  Draw the angle of incidence in accordance
with the normal PQ and place 2 pins so that
they appear to be in the straight line.
 Place the prism filled with given sample of
liquid , on the marked outline ABC.
 Now take the pins and place them on the side
AC so that all the 4 pins appears to be in same
line.
 Remove the prism and draw the line joining
the points so obtained.
 Mark the diagram as shown in the figure.
 Repeat this with different liquids and different
angle of incidence

PRECAUTIONS
Angle of incidence should lie b/w 35-60 degree.
 Pins should be vertically fixed and should lie
in same line.
 Distance b/w two points should not be less
than 10mm.
 Same angle of prism should be used for all
observation.
  Arrow head should be marked to represent
emergent and incident ray.

BIBLIOGRAPH
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 wikipedia.org

 google.com

 physicsforlife.com{physicsforlife.com}
 earthphysics.com