Optics: Blackboard Optics - Refraction

PIRA Class: 6A40.

Purpose:

To observe the refraction of light passing from one medium into another (of different density).

Description:

Blackboard optics with a single beam and a large rectangle prism of plexiglass.

Equipment:

Blackboard optics set, multiple ray projector, transformer

Support Equipment:

Location:

Shelf 353

Simulations:

www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/refraction_en.htm 

phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/bending-light/latest/bending-light_en.html 

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