Physics Lab 4 Reflection And Refraction Of Light

Spring 2009 home lab week 5 refraction of light name date university of virginia physics department phys 6251 spring 2009 4 activity 5 2.

Physics lab 4 reflection and refraction of light. Refraction and snell s law lab. Rules of refraction objective. Determining speed and intensity of light during refraction. We will explore what rules govern them their technical names and then apply these rules to study the beautiful world of curved mirrors and lenses.

Some of it bounces off some of it goes through and the rest of it is absorbed. Physics lab 4 reflection and refraction of light in this activity we will explore the properties of reflection and refraction of light as a ray of light travels between two transparent mediums. To explore the rules that predicts refraction in materials. Light travels in straight lines this is a statement you will be familiar with since the ks3.

This laboratory was designed to investigate the behaviour of light as it travels through a denser into a less dense medium. Sintot n sin 73 sin 74 2 0 6068 sin 73 5. Use snell s law of refraction to find the index of refraction for each color of light and record in table 4. Reflection in a plane surface.

And we use mirrors daily. Background imagine we have two transparent mediums separated by a surface we will call the interface if we are to shine a light through medium 1 towards medium 2 a couple of things will happen. In the image a given below because of refraction in a glass of water the image is flipped. Placed the semicircular plastic block on the centre of a blank sheet of paper.

When light is travelling obliquely from one medium to another then the direction of propagation of light changes in the second medium the phenomenon is known as refraction of light. Sintio nsin 74 2 red. Physics lab 4 reflection and refraction of light in this activity we will explore the properties of reflection and refraction of light as a ray of light travels between two transparent mediums. Dispersion 15 pts đi 400 light of nexp nexp n error 14 2 blue 1 497 13 re.

In this chapter we will explore the first two. Show work for one. When light travels from one medium to another like air to glass or glass to water it does three things. Answer to lab 9 reflection and refraction table 4.

Refraction of light part ii introduction. Ray box with comb.