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Refraction - Lab 2020 3

The document outlines a lab procedure to study the law of refraction and determine the refractive index of glass using a glass slab and various measuring tools. It includes steps for setting up the experiment, measuring angles of incidence and refraction, and recording observations. Additionally, it poses questions for analysis and encourages graphing the results to understand the relationship between the angles and Snell's Law.

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Refraction - Lab 2020 3

The document outlines a lab procedure to study the law of refraction and determine the refractive index of glass using a glass slab and various measuring tools. It includes steps for setting up the experiment, measuring angles of incidence and refraction, and recording observations. Additionally, it poses questions for analysis and encourages graphing the results to understand the relationship between the angles and Snell's Law.

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Physics

Name: _________
REFRACTION LAB
Aim: To study the law of refraction and find the refractive index of glass.

Materials: cardboard, pins protractor, ruler, glass slab, paper.

Procedure:
1. Place the glass plate in the center of a sheet of paper. Trace an outline of the
glass plate on the paper.
2. Remove the glass plate and draw a normal line at the top left of the outline, as
shown in the figure below.

3. Using the protractor, draw a line 300 from the normal line as shown (line AB).
The angle created is the angle of incidence i. Place two pins on this line.
4. Replace the glass in the outline. With your eye level with the glass, look
through the glass at the pins. Shift your head until the two pins line up (that is
one pin disappears behind the other). Place two pins in the paper so they line
up with the other pins, one should be right against the glass.
5. Remove the glass and draw a line normal to where the pin is next to the glass.
Then draw a line that connects the two pins (line CD). The angle created with
this line is r’.
6. Draw a line between the two normal lines (line BC). This angle is r, the angle of
refraction.
7. Measure and record all the three angles.
8. Repeat for four other angles.
Observations:

No. Angle of Sin i Angle of Sin r Angle


Incidence Refraction r’
i r (degrees)
(degrees) (degrees)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Draw a graph using your Sin i and Sin r values. Print your graph with the slope of your
graph. What does the slope represent? You will need to rearrange Snell’s Law equation
into a y=mx equation to answer the above question.

Result:

1
Physics
Questions:
1. How does the angle of incidence compare to the angle of refraction (first one)?

2. Should they be the same? Why or why not?

3. How does i compare with r’?

4. Should they be the same? Why or why not?

5. List 2 precautions you would take when doing this experiment.

6. List two sources of error in your experiment.

7. Turn in your sheet of white paper with this lab sheet.

8. How does the angle of incidence compare with the angle of refraction when light ray goes
from air to glass?

9. How does the angle of incidence compare with the angle of refraction when light ray goes
from glass to air?

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