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MAYOOR CHOPASNI SCHOOL, JODHPUR

Subject Enrichment Activity/Session – 2024-25


SCIENCE/CLASS-X
Student Name:_________________ Roll No.: Date:
Aim:
To trace the path of a ray of light passing through a rectangular glass slab for different angles of
incidence. Measure the angle of incidence, angle of refraction, and angle of emergence, and
interpret the result.

Materials Required:
A drawing board, 4-6 all pins, white sheet of paper, rectangular glass slab, a protractor, a scale, a
pencil and thumb pins.

Theory:
What are the laws of refraction?
Following are the laws of refraction:
1. The incident ray, the normal at the point of incidence, and the refracted ray lie in the same plane.
2.Snell’s law states that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of
refraction is constant.
𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠
= 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐
𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠
What is refraction of light?
The refraction of light is a property of light due to which it changes its path when it passes from
one medium to the other.
What is lateral displacement?
Lateral displacement is defined as the perpendicular shift in the path of light when it emerges out
from the refracting medium.

Diagram:

Procedure:
1. Fix a white sheet on the soft drawing board using thumb pins.
2. Place the glass slab at the centre of the white paper and draw its outline boundary using a sharp
pencil.
3. Let ABCD be the rectangular figure obtained by drawing.
4. Mark a point E on AB and draw a perpendicular EN and label it as a normal ray.
5. Draw one angle of 30° with the help of protractor with EN. Fix pins at P and Q at 4-5 cm on the
ray that is obtained by the angle.
6. Place the glass slab on the rectangular figure ABCD.
7. To fix R and S, see through the glass slab from side CD, such that when seen through the glass
slab, all the pins P, Q, R, and S should lie in a straight line.
8. Draw small circles around the pins P, Q, R and S and remove the pins.
9. Remove the glass slab.
10. Join points R and S such that it meets CD at point F. Draw a perpendicular N’M’ to CD at
point F.
11. Use a pencil, join the points E and F.
12. Measure the angles formed at AB and CD, i.e. the incident angle, refracted angle, and emergent
angle.
13. The lateral displacement is obtained by extending the ray PQ in a dotted line which is parallel
to ray FRS.
14. Measure the lateral displacement.
15. Repeat the same procedure for angles 45° and 60°.

Observation: Lateral displacement = _______________cm

Conclusion:
1. The angle of incidence and the angle of emergence are almost equal.
2. As the light is traveling from rarer to denser optical medium, the angle of refraction will be
lesser than the angle of incidence.
3. For different angles of incidence, the lateral displacement will remain the same.
4. The light will bend towards the normal when it travels from an optically rarer medium to an
optically denser medium.

Precautions:
1. The rectangular glass slab used should have perfectly smooth faces.
2. The drawing board should be soft so that pins can be easily fixed on it.
3. The angle of incidence should lie between 30° and 60°.
4. All pins base should be in a straight line.
5. The distance between the pins P and Q or the pins R and S, about 5 cm gap should be maintained.
6. Using a sharp pencil, draw thin lines.
7. The quality of the protractor should be good.
8. The placement of the protractor should be correct to get correct measurements.
9. The perpendiculars should be drawn with care.

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