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LIGHT

REFLECTION
● Light travels in straight lines called rays
● When drawing light rays, always use a ruler and put an arrowhead on the ray
to show its direction.
● A light ray arriving at a mirror is called an incident ray
● The incident ray makes an angle with the surface of the mirror.
Measure this angle from a line perpendicular to the mirror and not from the
mirror itself.
The line perpendicular to the mirror is called the normal.
These diagrams are called ray diagrams because they show what happens to the light rays during reflection.
LAW in PHYSICS
● In Physics, a law is something that always applies.
● What we have drawn obeys the law of reflection. Which is that the angle of
reflection is equal to the angle of incidence.
In this picture, light from the Sun is reflected from the cyclist. This is the incident
ray on the mirror. The reflected ray from the mirror goes to the driver’s eye.
REFRACTION
● Distorted means changed to be less clear.
● Something appears distorted because of the refraction
● The material that light passes through is called a medium. Air, glass and water
are each examples of a medium for light to pass through.
● The speed of light in air is 300 000 kilometres per second. When light passes
from air into water or glass, the light travels more slowly.

● The change of speed can cause the light to change direction.


● Refraction of light is defined as the change in direction of light on passing from
one medium to another because of change in speed.
Light passing from air into water or glass
● The light passing from air into glass or
water is bent towards the normal. That
means the refracted ray is closer to the
normal than it would be if the incident ray
just carried on in a straight line.

● when light passes from air into glass or


water, the angle of incidence is greater
than the angle of refraction.
Light passing from water or glass into air
● The light passing from glass or water into air
is bent away from the normal.
That means the refracted ray is further away
from the normal than it would be if the
incident ray just carried on in a straight line.

● When light passes from glass or water into air


the angle of refraction is greater than the
angle of incidence.
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