Question

what is lateral displacement?​

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

The lateral displacement or lateral shift is the minimum gap between the emergent ray and incident ray. In the diagram below incident ray is shown by the dotted line and the emergent ray is shown by the solid line.

Answer 2

Answer:

when the perpendicular distance between the original path traced by an incident ray and the path traced by the emergent ray coming out from the glass slab is known as lateral displacement