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Practical Experiment

- Light Waves: Reflection and Refraction.


Background information.
As we know, light travels from one place to another as waves. We can use equipment
such as a light box kit to investigate how light waves interact when reflecting and
refracting. Light box kits contain concave (curved inwards) objects, convex (curved
outwards) objects, prisms and planes that can be used to demonstrate how light is
reflected or refracted.

Aim: The aim of the experiment is to visibly see light waves travelling using reflection and
refraction while utilising the lightbox kits and different surfaces.

Hypothesis: It is hypothesised that the experiment will demonstrate reflection and


refraction with the light waves of energy by using the light box kits to create a beam of
light that can reflect or refract depending on the different surfaces used, such as
concave, convex, plane, lens or prisms.

Materials:
- Light box kit
- Convex and concave lenses
- Prisms and planes
- Battery pack
- White A4 paper

Method:
Set up of light box kit.
1. Connect your lightbox to your battery pack as shown by your teacher.
2. Place the black plastic light distributor down with the single open shaft facing
downwards.
3. Place a sheet of white paper down in front of the light box.
4. Choose a coloured square of your choice.
5. Close the sides of the box making sure no light escapes.
Experiment 1.
6. Place a concave mirror in front of the light box and fill in the table below.
7. Flip over the concave mirror so it faces backwards and fill in the table below.
8. Place down the plane mirror so that it faces the light box and fill in the table below.
Experiment 2.
9. Place the concave lense in front of the light box (on the horizontal) and fill in the
table below.
10. Place the convex lense in front of the light box (on the horizontal) and fill in the
table below.
11. Place down the rectangular plane in front of the light box (on the diagonal) and fill
in the table below.
12. Place the prism in front of the light box and fill in the table below.

Experiment 3.
13. Start with a convex lens and hold it close to your eye. Slowly move the lense away
from your face until your arm is completed outstretched. Record what you see in
the space below.
The convex lense made the object appear larger through the lens.

14. Repeat the action for concave lenses and describe the difference between the two
lenses.
The concave lens enlarges the object and makes the object appear upside down.

Results:
Experiment 1- Light box experiment demonstrating reflection and refraction by using
different surfaces:
Top view What happened to the Plane, convex or concave
rays? Reflection or surface?
refraction?

The rays are reflecting, and Concave mirror


all meet up with the focus
→ when they are parallel to the
→ principal axis.

The rays reflect back and do Convex mirrors


not cross through the focus
→ point., the parallel rays
→ diverge.

Plane Mirrors
The rays intersect with
→ other rays and then
→ diverge after reflecting.

Experiment 2.
Top view What happens to the rays? Lens or prism? Convex or
Reflection or refraction? concave?

The convex lens causes the Convex lens


rays to pass through and
→ converge having a focus
point.
→

The concave Concave lense


lens causes the
rays to diverge
→
→

Prism
The rays converge
and intersect other
light rays. The
intersections are
→ inconsistent.
→

The rays Prism


went and
converge
→ d with
→ other
rays
Discussion:
Question 1: Describe the difference between reflection and refraction based on what you
saw in your results.
Reflection is when the light ray is redirected and bounces off the surface where the ray comes in contact. Refraction is
when the ray passes through the surface.
Question 2: Describe the effect concave and convex lenses have on the light that passes
through them.

Concave lenses reflect the light and converge in a dedicated focus point, while the convex lens causes the reflecting
rays to diverge after contact.
Question 3. Does the distance from the object alter the way the light bends? Explain your
response.
The light bends closer to the mirror as you take the mirror further away from the object that emits light.

Question 4. The following image demonstrates what feature of light waves and why?

Conclusion: ​
(Summarise the experiment, refer to and describe results, state if the
hypothesis was support or not and why and acknowledge any errors made and how they
could have impacted results).

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