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    This document summarizes an experiment on reflection and refraction. It begins by stating the objectives are to understand the law of reflection and trace incident and reflected rays using polar graphs. It then provides background on ray optics and ray approximation, discussing reflection, refraction, and related concepts like the law of reflection, index of refraction, and more. An example problem is given on finding the direction of a double-reflected light ray. Diagrams and equations support the explanations.

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    Experiment 6:

    Reflection and
    Refraction
    Hernanie T. Salazar Jr.
    Mathematics and Physics
    Department
    Adamson University
    March 29, 2021
    1
    Objectives
    • Understand the law of reflection on optics point of view
    • Trace the path of an incident ray and its reflected rays
    using polar graphs.

    2
    Background: Ray Approximation in Ray
    Optics

    • Ray optics (geometric optics) - study of


    the propagation of light.
    • Ray approximation - consider that
    light (through a uniform medium)
    travels in a straight line in the direction
    of its rays.

    3
    Background: Ray Approximation in Ray
    Optics
    • Consider a wave that passes through a barrier with a small hole.
    • If the diameter is much larger than the wavelength, the
    waves just move in a straight line.
    • If the diameter is in order of magnitude of the wavelength,
    the waves spread out of the hole — diffraction

    4
    Background: Reflection

    • Contrary to waves on string, light


    waves travel in three-dimensional
    space.
    • Specular reflection — reflection of
    light from such a smooth surface.
    • Diffuse reflection — reflection from
    any rough surface.

    5
    Background: Reflection
    • A light traveling in air and incident at an
    angle on a flat smooth surface makes an
    incident and reflected angles and ,
    respectively
    • The angle of reflection equals the
    angle of incidence:

    Law of reflection

    6
    Problem: Reflection

    Example: Double-Reflected Light Ray


    Two mirrors make an angle of 120º
    with each other as illustrated in the
    figure. A ray is incident on mirror M1 at
    an angle of 65º to the normal. Find
    the direction of the ray after it is
    reflected from mirror M2.

    7
    Problem: Reflection
    Solution: Double-Reflected Light Ray

    8
    Background: Reflection
    • Retroreflection — when the reflected
    beam returns to the source parallel to its
    original path.

    9
    Background: Refraction
    Refracted ray —
    the ray that enters the
    second medium that changes its
    direction of propagation at the
    boundary (bending toward or away
    from the normal).
    Angle of refraction, θ2

    The path of a light through a


    refracting surface is reversible 10
    Background: Refraction
    When light moves from a material in which its speed is high to a material in
    which its speed is lower, the angle of refraction is less than the incidence.
    The ray is bent toward the normal.

    11
    Background: Refraction
    Index of Refraction
    — ratio of the speed of light in vacuum to the speed of light in a medium

    12
    Background: Refraction

    13
    Thank you for
    listening
    Reflection and Refraction

    14

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