Can a glass slab produce lateral displacement
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Explanation:
When light rays passed from the rarer medium of air to that of the thick glass slabthen the refraction of light will occur and the it will deviate from it's usual way ofmovement and shift toward the line normal to the glass slab and when it leaves the slab itwill deviate away from the line normal to that of the ...
Yes, a glass slab will produce lateral displacement.
Air is rarer medium while glass is denser medium. When light travels from air to glass, i.e. rarer to denser medium, lights bends towards the normal.
Again light travels from denser glass medium to rarer air medium, light moves away from the normal.
This movement of towards and away from the normal causes light to sync out from its original path. This distance of emergent (stretched backwards) and incident ray is called lateral displacement. Glass slab is commonly used to study the phenomenon.