Refraction and total internal reflection 1) Using Snells law, determine the constant when the angle of incidence

and the angle of refraction are: a) 50 and 30 b) 30 and 18 c) 60 and 38 2) a) What is the angle of refraction in a medium if the angle of incidence in air is 48 and the index of refraction of the medium is 1.58? b) What is the angle of incidence in a medium in the case where the angle of refraction in air is 40 and the index of refraction of the medium is 1.58?

1) Using Snells law, determine the constant when the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction are: a) 50 and 30 b) 30 and 18 c) 60 and 38 2) a) What is the angle of refraction in a medium if the angle of incidence in air is 48 and the index of refraction of the medium is 1.58? b) What is the angle of incidence in a medium in the case where the angle of refraction in air is 40 and the index of refraction of the medium is 1.58?

3) A ray of light passes from air into water at an angle of incidence of 50. What is the angle of refraction? (HINT: You will need to use the sin-1 function on your calculator). 4) Light travels from air into water. If the angle of refraction is 30, what is the angle of incidence? 5) A ray of light in air strikes a block of quartz at an angle of incidence of 30. The angle of refraction is 20. What is the index of refraction in quartz? 6) One ray of light in air strikes a diamond and another strikes a piece of fused quartz. In each case the angle of incidence is 40. What is the difference in the angles of refraction? 7) An underwater swimmer looks up toward the surface of the water on a line of sight that makes an angle of 25 with a normal to the surface of the water. What is the angle of incidence in air for the light rays that enter the swimmers eye? 8) What is the critical angle for light rays passing from: a) glass into air b) glass into water 9) In each of the following questions, the second medium is air. a) What is the critical angle if the index of refraction for a medium is 1.68? b) What is the index of refraction of a medium if the critical angle is 40?
Indices of Refraction for Various Media: Medium Index of Refraction (n) Air/vacuum 1.00 Ice 1.31 Water 1.33 Ethyl alcohol 1.36 Vegetable oil 1.47 Acrylic 1.49 Glass 1.52 Diamond 2.42

3) A ray of light passes from air into water at an angle of incidence of 50. What is the angle of refraction? (HINT: You will need to use the sin-1 function on your calculator). 4) Light travels from air into water. If the angle of refraction is 30, what is the angle of incidence? 5) A ray of light in air strikes a block of quartz at an angle of incidence of 30. The angle of refraction is 20. What is the index of refraction in quartz? 6) One ray of light in air strikes a diamond and another strikes a piece of fused quartz. In each case the angle of incidence is 40. What is the difference in the angles of refraction? 7) An underwater swimmer looks up toward the surface of the water on a line of sight that makes an angle of 25 with a normal to the surface of the water. What is the angle of incidence in air for the light rays that enter the swimmers eye? 8) What is the critical angle for light rays passing from: a) glass into air b) glass into water 9) In each of the following questions, the second medium is air. a) What is the critical angle if the index of refraction for a medium is 1.68? b) What is the index of refraction of a medium if the critical angle is 40?
Indices of Refraction for Various Media: Medium Index of Refraction (n) Air/vacuum 1.00 Ice 1.31 Water 1.33 Ethyl alcohol 1.36 Vegetable oil 1.47 Acrylic 1.49 Glass 1.52 Diamond 2.42

Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. a) 1.53 a) 28 35 42 1.46 11 34 a) 41 a) 37 b) 1.62 b) 24 c) 1.41

Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. a) 1.53 a) 28 35 42 1.46 11 34 a) 41 a) 37 b) 1.62 b) 24 c) 1.41

b) 61 b) 1.56

b) 61 b) 1.56

Lenses 1) Find the power: (a) convex lens, f = 20 cm, (b) convex lens, f = 5 cm.

Refraction and total internal reflection

2) An object is placed in front of a convex lens with focal length of 10 cm. Find the nature, position and magnification of the image formed when the object distance is 15 cm. 3) An object is placed 20 cm from a concave lens of focal length 15 cm. a) Calculate the image distance. b) State the characteristics of the image formed. A convex lens with focus length of 15 cm formed an image which is real, inverted and same size with the object. What is the object distance from the lens? When an object of height 3.0 cm is placed 20 cm from a concave lens of focal length 30 cm, what is the height of the image formed? Starting with the lens formula, ,

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a) derive an equation that gives the relationship between liner magnification, m and the image distance, v. Hence sketch the graph of m against v. b) State the value of m at the point of intersection of the graph with the vertical axis. c) Describe how you would determine the focal length of the lens using the graph. 7) The figure on the right shows the structure of a slide projector. a) Why is the light source placed at the centre of curvature of the concave mirror and the focus of the condenser lens? b) State the characteristics of the image formed on the screen. c) Why the slide has to be placed inverted in the projector?