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Experiment No. 2: When You Have Attempted Practical Offline

1) The experiment aims to trace the path of light rays passing through a rectangular glass slab at different angles of incidence and to measure the associated angles of incidence, refraction, and emergence. 2) When light passes from air to glass, it bends toward the normal at the first surface due to refraction. At the second surface, from glass to air, it again undergoes refraction and bends away from the normal. 3) Measurements showed that as the angle of incidence increased, the angle of refraction also increased, while the angle of emergence remained equal to the angle of incidence, such that the emergent ray was parallel to but laterally displaced from the incident ray.

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Experiment No. 2: When You Have Attempted Practical Offline

1) The experiment aims to trace the path of light rays passing through a rectangular glass slab at different angles of incidence and to measure the associated angles of incidence, refraction, and emergence. 2) When light passes from air to glass, it bends toward the normal at the first surface due to refraction. At the second surface, from glass to air, it again undergoes refraction and bends away from the normal. 3) Measurements showed that as the angle of incidence increased, the angle of refraction also increased, while the angle of emergence remained equal to the angle of incidence, such that the emergent ray was parallel to but laterally displaced from the incident ray.

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EXPERIMENT NO.

2
Aim: To trace the path of a ray of light passing obliquely through a rectangular glass slab for
different angles of incidence and to measure the angle of incidence, angle of refraction, the
angle of emergence.
Material required: A rectangular glass slab, drawing board, white sheet of paper, protractor,
a measuring scale, pins, and drawing pins.
Theory: When a ray of light passes from air to glass through a rectangular glass slab, it bends
towards the normal at the surface of the air-glass boundary (AD). The phenomenon of change
in the direction of a ray of light when it enters from one medium to the other is known as
refraction. Then, the refracted ray strikes the face BC of the glass slab that forms the glass-air
boundary at the opposite face of the glass slab ABCD. It undergoes refraction again. The
deviation of the ray of light this time is away from the normal at the point of incidence .The
refracted ray is known as the emergent ray with respect to the incident ray incident at the face
AD. The angle between the emergent ray and the normal to the face BC is known as angle of
emergence ( e).

*Either Draw Figure on a blank sheet and attach in the practical record or attach the sheet
when you have attempted practical offline
Observation:
S No. Angle of Angle of Angle of Deviation
incidence i refraction r emergence e i-e
1 30 degree 20 degree 30 degree 0 degree
2 40 degree 25 degree 40 degree 0 degree
3 50 degree 30 degree 50 degree 0 degree
Result:
The paths of different rays of light through a glass slab are shown in figure As i = e , the
emergent ray emerging out of the rectangular glass slab, is parallel to, but laterally displaced
with respect to the incident ray. Angle of refraction r increases with increase in angle of
incidence i.
Precautions and sources of error:
1. The glass slab should be perfectly rectangular with all its faces smooth, thin lines should be
drawn, using a sharp pencil and the angles should be measured accurately, using a good
quality protractor having clear markings, by keeping the eye above the marking.
2. The tips of pins P1, P2, P3, and P4 should be sharp and while viewing the collinearity of
pins , the eye should be kept at some distance from the pins so that the feet of all of them can
be seen simultaneously in the same straight line.
3. The angle of incidence should preferably be between 30º and 60º.

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