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Snell's Law Refraction Worksheet

This document provides an explanation of Snell's law and some practice problems applying it. Snell's law relates the indices of refraction and angles of incidence and refraction when light passes through a boundary between two materials. It defines that the ratio of the sines of the incidence and refraction angles is equal to the ratio of the indices of refraction. Several problems then ask the reader to use Snell's law to determine indices of refraction or rank them based on the angles of light passing through different materials.

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Snell's Law Refraction Worksheet

This document provides an explanation of Snell's law and some practice problems applying it. Snell's law relates the indices of refraction and angles of incidence and refraction when light passes through a boundary between two materials. It defines that the ratio of the sines of the incidence and refraction angles is equal to the ratio of the indices of refraction. Several problems then ask the reader to use Snell's law to determine indices of refraction or rank them based on the angles of light passing through different materials.

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Snells Law Worksheet

Name_________________

Important stuff:
n = index of refraction of a material
n

c
v

c = speed of light in vacuum = 3.00 x 108 m/s

v = speed of light in the material

Snells Law
n1 sin 1 n 2 sin 2

1
n1
n2

_____________________________________________________________________________
1) For the drawing to the right, find n2.
45
n1 = 1.5
65

n2 = ?

2) For the drawings below, state whether n1 is bigger than n2, n2 is bigger than n1, or n1 is equal to
n2.
a)

b)
1

c)
1

n1

n1

n1

n2

n2

n2

3) For each of the drawings below, rank the indexes of refraction from smallest to biggest.
a)
Note: 1 = 3
n1
n2
n3
b)
n1
n2
c)

n3
n1
n2
n3

5) A ray of light is traveling in glass with an index of refraction of n = 1.50 and strikes a
glass/air interface.
a) If the angle of incidence is 35, what is the angle of refraction?

b) If the angle of incidence is increased to 41, what is the angle of refraction?

c) If the angle of incidence is increased to 42, what is the angle of refraction?

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