Question

verify laws of reflection of light

Answer 1

The laws of reflection state that:1. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.2. The incident ray, the normal and the reflected ray are coplanar.Experiment:Apparatus required: a drawing board, a white sheet of paper, a few common pins and a plane mirror.Procedure: Pin the white sheet of paper firmly on the drawing board. Place the plane mirror on it and trace its outline on the paper. Then remove the mirror and draw the 'normal.' The normal is the 90 degrees vertical line drawn to the outline of the mirror.Now place the mirror again on the outline. The normal will be reflected clearly on the mirror.Next place two pins in a straight line on one side of the normal on the white sheet of paper.Next place two pins on the other side of the normal in such a way that these two pins are in a straight line with the reflection of the two pins on the other side of the normal.Now remove the mirror and the pins and join the pin marks to the normal.It will be seen that the angles which the lines make on both sides of the normal will be equal. So, if one line represents the incident ray - the ray which is travelling from the source of light - and the other line represents the reflected ray - the ray of light which has been reflected - it is proved that the angle which the  incident ray makes to the normal is always equal to the angle which the reflected  ray makes to the normal.Since the lines representing the normal and the incident and reflected rays are all represented on the sheet of plain paper. The second law that the incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal are coplanar.

Answer 2

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Laws of reflection:-

1st law:-The incident ray, the reflected ray,and the normal at the point of incidence lie on the same plane.

2nd law:- The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.