REFRAGTION IN GLASS SLAB

Experiment11
u the path of a
ray of light passing through
he angle of incidence, angle ot retraction, angle
a
rectangular glass slab for ditferent
of
emergence and interpret the result angles of incidence Measure
MATERIALS REQUIRED

class slab. pins. pencil, protractor, paper, wooden

board, etc
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
1 To understand the phenonmenon of refraction
2. To learn keep pins, such that no deviation
to
from straight line occurs.
3. To understand the lateral displacement.
4. To learn about the importance of parallel refracting surfaces
THEORY

Light will undergo refraction on passing through a

into glass from air and bends away as it transparent medium. Light bends towards the normal, when it
gets out of glass into air. When the gets
emergent and incident angles will be equal. There will be a lateral refracting surfaces are parallel, then the
displacement of light on refraction in a glass slah.
PROCEDURE

1. Take a wooden board and fix sheet of paper using thumb

a
pins at the corners
2. Keep the given glass slab (rectangular) and mark its
boundary and name it ABCD.
3. Choose a point M on AB and draw a normal NP at M.
4. Draw a line OEM at an angle i (ZNMO) called angle of incidence, say 30°.
5. Place the slab back in ABCD.
6. Fix two pins at 0 and E on OM and call it the incident ray.
7. See the two pins standing in a line from the
opposite side CD along SF
8. Fix twopins I and F such that all the four pins
at at 0, E, I and F are in a straight line.
9. Remove the slab ABCD from its
position N
10. Take the pins out and encircle those points.
11. Connect I and F to the point S in CD by a line.
B
12. Join the points M in AB and S in CD and call MS as the refracted ray.
13. Call SIF as the emergent ray.
Glass slab
14. Measure the angle ZFSR called the emergent angle.
15. Record the value of 'e' against the angle of incidence taken in the table
16. Find the difference between e and i, i.e.. (e - i).
17. Repeat the steps for different values of i and do at least four trials.
18. Record the values in the Table in each case and find (e -

i).
Fig. 11.1 Refraction through glass slab

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OBSERVATION TABLE
s.No. Angle of incidence (i) Angle of refraction (r) Angle of emergence (e) (e id i- r)

4.

(e- i is
expected to be zero. For a
glass slab (i-r) should be
RESULT positive.
() The
angle of emergence has
(ii) The been found to be
angle of the same
refraction
r was
found to be
as the angle of incidence.
PRECAUTIONS
1.Glass slab
less thani and
so (i -

r) is the
indicating glass to be
should be denser than
2. Pins should be placed well within the air
3.
fixed exactly outline marked.
The foot of the
pins (on the vertically. Do not
hammer the
4. Use of
protractor in finding paper) should be placed in pins
5.
Angles should be fixed angle should be accurate. straight line.
6. The between 30° and 60° for
separation between pins incident ray.
should be at least
5 cm,
while
ensuring straight line.
VIVA VOG