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    Refraction of Light through a glass slab

    Aim: To calculate the refractive index of the given glass slab and measure its lateral
    displacement

    Materials required:

    Glass slab, drawing board, all pins, push pins, scale, protractor and a white paper

    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:

    1. Fix a sheet of white paper on the drawing board with the help of drawing pins at
    the four corners of the sheet.
    2. Place a glass slab at the centre of the paper and mark its boundary EFGH with fine
    pencil.
    3. Remove the glass slab. Draw any line AB making an angle of 300 with the normal
    at the point B, the middle point of EF approximately.
    4. Put the glass slab back in position on the boundary line. Fix two pins P1 and P2
    vertically on the line AB at least 5 cm apart- and one pin close to the slab.
    5. 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 5 cm apart.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. Repeat the experiment with different angles of incidence 400 and 500.

    Observation table
    Sr. Angle of incidence Angle of refraction Refractive Index Lateral
    no (i) (r) µ = Sin i/Sin r Displacement

    1. 300

    2. 400

    3. 500

    Conclusion:

    It is clear from the observation table that the ratio of Sini and Sinr is constant and the
    refractive index of the given glass slab is …………………..

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