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    The document describes an experiment to determine the refractive index of a liquid using a concave mirror. The key requirements are three concave mirrors, a transparent liquid (water), an optical needle, and various equipment to position and measure the needle. The experiment works by placing a needle at the center of curvature of the mirror with and without the liquid; the refractive index is calculated as the ratio of the center of curvature distances with and without the liquid. Precautions and potential sources of error are noted but not described.

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    The document describes an experiment to determine the refractive index of a liquid using a concave mirror. The key requirements are three concave mirrors, a transparent liquid (water), an optical needle, and various equipment to position and measure the needle. The experiment works by placing a needle at the center of curvature of the mirror with and without the liquid; the refractive index is calculated as the ratio of the center of curvature distances with and without the liquid. Precautions and potential sources of error are noted but not described.

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    EXPERIMENT -3

    AIMTo find the refractive index of a liquid by using a concave mirror.

    Requirements:Three concave mirrors, a transparent liquid (water), an optical


    needle, an iron stand with base and clamp arrangement, a plumb line and a half metre scale

    Theory:For a concave mirror with horizontal surface and vertical principal axis.When an object
    needle is at the centre of curvature C of the mirror,the real image is also formed at C. The rays
    starting from C and incident on the concave mirror strike it normally and retrace their path and
    the image is formed at C. Spread a small amount of liquid in the centre of the mirror. Adjust the
    position of the needle at C' so that parallax is removed between the needle and its inverted
    image. Nowthe ray of light proceeding along C'L is refracted along LM normal to The mirror and
    retraces its path. If appears to come from C, the centre of curvature of the mirror.

    Then as seen from fig 1.

    Observation:-
    Rough focal length of a concave mirror:- ______

    S.No. Distance Mean PC (in Distance Mean PC’(in n=PC/PC’


    PC(in cm.) cm.) PC’(in cm.) cm.)

    (i)

    (ii)

    (iii)

    Result:-

    Precautions :-
    Source of error:-

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