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A Ray of Light Travelling in Air is Incident on a Rectangular Glass Block and Emerges Out into the Air from the Opposite Face. Draw a Labelled Ray Diagram to Show the Completer Path of this Ray of Light. Mark the Two Points Where the Refraction of Light Takes Place. What Can You Say About the Final Direction of Ray of Light?

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A ray of light travelling in air is incident on a rectangular glass block and emerges out into the air from the opposite face. Draw a labelled ray diagram to show the completer path of this ray of light. Mark the two points where the refraction of light takes place. What can you say about the final direction of ray of light?

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Solution

  

Here, light ray changes its direction or refracts at point A when it travels from air to glass. The ray changes its direction again at point B when it travels from glass to air.
The final direction of light ray, i.e., BX will be parallel to the direction OAY in which it enters the glass block.

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Chapter 2: Refraction of Light - Exercise 1 [Page 83]

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Lakhmir Singh Physics Part 1 [English] Class 10
Chapter 2 Refraction of Light
Exercise 1 | Q 21. | Page 83

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