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    1) The document describes an experiment to study the refraction of light through a rectangular glass slab at different angles of incidence. 2) A light ray is shone through the glass slab at varying angles and the angle of incidence, angle of refraction, and lateral displacement are measured. 3) The experiment aims to verify Snell's law, which states that the ratio of the sines of the angle of incidence and angle of refraction is a constant value determined by the refractive indices of the two media.

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    1) The document describes an experiment to study the refraction of light through a rectangular glass slab at different angles of incidence. 2) A light ray is shone through the glass slab at varying angles and the angle of incidence, angle of refraction, and lateral displacement are measured. 3) The experiment aims to verify Snell's law, which states that the ratio of the sines of the angle of incidence and angle of refraction is a constant value determined by the refractive indices of the two media.

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    1) The document describes an experiment to study the refraction of light through a rectangular glass slab at different angles of incidence. 2) A light ray is shone through the glass slab at varying angles and the angle of incidence, angle of refraction, and lateral displacement are measured. 3) The experiment aims to verify Snell's law, which states that the ratio of the sines of the angle of incidence and angle of refraction is a constant value determined by the refractive indices of the two media.

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    EXPERIMENT-01

    REFRACTION THROUGH GLASS SLAB

    AIM: To trace the course of different rays of light through a rectangular glass
    slab at different angles of incidence, measure the angle of incidence,
    refraction and verify Snell`s law. Also measure the lateral displacement.

    APPARATUS: Drawing board, sheet of paper, board pins, rectangular glass


    slab.

    THEORY:

    Consider a rectangular glass slab EFGH as shown in fig. A ray of light


    AB incident at an angle of incidence i with the normal NN1 at the point of
    incidence B. This ray is refracted along BC and bent towards the normal
    because it is going from air to glass. The refracted ray again suffers refraction at
    the surface GH and bents away from the normal MM` and emerges along CD
    which is thus the emergent ray. The emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray
    but is displaced. The distance between the incident ray produced forward and
    the emergent ray i.e. distance CP gives us the lateral displacement.
    PROCEDURE:

    a) Fix a sheet of white paper on the drawing board with the help of drawing
    pins at the four corners of the sheet.
    b) Place a glass slab at the centre of the paper and mark its boundary EFGH
    with fine pencil.
    c) Remove the glass slab. Draw any line AB making an angle of 40 0 with
    the normal at the point B, the middle point of EF approximately.
    d) Put the glass slab back in position on the boundary line. Fix two pins P 1
    and P2 vertically on the line AB at least 5cm apart- and one pin close to
    the slab.
    e) Look for the image of these pins in the slab from the opposite side GH
    and fix two pins P3 and P4 so that they are in the line with the image of P1
    and P2 as seen through the slab and at least 5cm apart.
    f) Join the pricks of P3 and P4 to obtain the emergent ray. Draw a normal to
    GH at the point C. join BC to get the refracted ray.
    g) Measure the angle of incidence and angle of refraction. Produce AB
    forward and draw a perpendicular from C on AB produced to meet it at P.
    Then the lateral displacement = CP.
    h) Repeat the experiment with different angles of incidence 500and 600.

    OBSERVATION TABLE:

    S.N Angle of Angle of Sin i Sin r μ= Lateral


    incidence, i refraction, r Sin i / Sinr Displacement

    1. 400

    2. 500

    3. 600

    GRAPH: Plot graph Sini Vs Sinr.


    CONCLUSION: It is clear from the observation table that the ratio of Sini and
    Sinr is constant. Hence Snell`s is law verified.

    VIVA-VOCE:

    a) What do you mean by refraction?


    b) What is the angle of refraction when the angle of incidence is zero?
    c) What is optical density?
    d) Does a parallel side glass slab produce any deviation in the incident light?
    e) Can angle of refraction be greater than the angle of incidence?
    f) Is the refractive index of water w.r.t. glass less or more than 1?
    g) What are the factors on which the lateral displacement produced by a
    glass slab depends?

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