Optics II

  1. What happens when a ray of light traveling through transparent medium encounters a boundary leading into another transparent medium? 
    Define Refraction?
    Define the angle of refraction
    • Part of the energy is reflected and part enters the second medium 
    • Refraction: Light changes direction when crossing a boundary from one medium to another
    • Angle of Refraction: the angle the outgoing ray makes with the normal
  2. The incident ray,  the reflected ray, the refracted ray, and the normal all lie on the ______ ______. The path of the light through the refracting surface is _______. Again, all rays and the normal lie in the _____ _____, and the refracted ray is bent toward the ______ (why?)
    Label the 3 rays and the normal
    • same plane
    • reversible
    • same plane
    • normal, because v2 < v1
  3. What two things does the angle of refraction depend on? 
    State the formula for the angle of refraction and explain the components
    • The material and the angle of incidence
  4. _______ is what makes objects half-submerged in water look odd
    State the formula for index of refraction, n, of a medium. What changes for it in a vacuum vs in other media?
    • Refraction
  5. Expand on the formula for the index of refraction 
    We find:
    n1sinθ1 = ______
    Specify each angle and name the relationship


  6. Quick Summary
    Incident angle = ______ angle
    All angles measured from normal ___ ≤ θ ≤ ___
    Rays are _______
    n = ____
    Frequency is _______ in all mediums
    fλ = ___ and n = _____
  7. n1sinθ1 (aka _____ or _____) = _______
    What characteristic of Snell's Law is displayed
  8. The exit ray is _______ to the incident ray, except it is shifted ______. What characteristic of Snell's Law is displayed 
    • parallel 
    • sideway
  9. According to Snell's law:
    If n1 < n2, then θ1 ___ θ2
    If n1 > n2, then θ1 ___ θ2
    The ray has a _____ at the boundary (label)

    If the ray direction is reversed, the incident and refracted angles are interchanged but the values of _____ and _____ remain the the same (label). Also name this Snell's law characteristic.
    • If n1 < n2, then θ1 > θ2
    • If n1 > n2, then θ1 < θ2
    • kink
    • θ1 and θ2

  10. What Snell's Law characteristic is displayed: 
    Zero angles → all angles are zero
  11. What characteristic of Snell's Law is displayed?
    Angle of incidence is ______ 
    Transmission is getting ______
    When does the critical angle occur?
    Reflection is getting _______
    θc = _______
    When does total internal reflection occur?
    • Total internal reflection 
    • increasing 
    • weaker 
    • When θ2 = 90°
    • stronger 
  12. State 4 Application of Total Internal Reflection (4)
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Optics II
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Optics II
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