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
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
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
_______ 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
Expand on the formula for the index of refraction
We find:
n1sinθ1 = ______
Specify each angle and name the relationship
Quick Summary
Incident angle = ______ angle
All angles measured from normal ___ ≤ θ ≤ ___
Rays are _______
n = ____
Frequency is _______ in all mediums
fλ = ___ and n = _____
n1sinθ1 (aka _____ or _____) = _______
What characteristic of Snell's Law is displayed
The exit ray is _______ to the incident ray, except it is shifted ______. What characteristic of Snell's Law is displayed
parallel
sideway
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
What Snell's Law characteristic is displayed:
Zero angles → all angles are zero
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
State 4 Application of Total Internal Reflection (4)