Write an experiment to verify the laws of reflection ?
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ESSENTIAL APPRATUS: 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 (refer to the attached image). 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 i. e. <i=<r
Since the lines representing the normal and the incident and reflected rays are all represented on the sheet of plain paper, the incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal are coplanar.
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 (refer to the attached image). 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 i. e. <i=<r
Since the lines representing the normal and the incident and reflected rays are all represented on the sheet of plain paper, the incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal are coplanar.
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Take a wooden drawing board and on it fix a sheet of white paper.In the middle of paper draw a very fine straight line XY.Mark a point B on the lineand draw a perpendicular to BN. Place a mirror MM' along the line XY such that the polished side of mirror is along the line. Hold the mirror in a mirror stand.
Fix two common pins P and Q on the straight line AB in vertical position. Look foe the images of pins P and Q. Once the images are located , fix two more pins R and S, such that these pins and the images of pins P and Q are in the same straight line.
Now remove the mirror. Remove the pins one by one , and draw small circles around the pin points, so as to mark the positions of the image pins R and S.
Join R and S and produce the same straight line to meet the mirror at B. Measure angle PBN and angle SBN. It is found that the angles are equal.
Hence proved.
Fix two common pins P and Q on the straight line AB in vertical position. Look foe the images of pins P and Q. Once the images are located , fix two more pins R and S, such that these pins and the images of pins P and Q are in the same straight line.
Now remove the mirror. Remove the pins one by one , and draw small circles around the pin points, so as to mark the positions of the image pins R and S.
Join R and S and produce the same straight line to meet the mirror at B. Measure angle PBN and angle SBN. It is found that the angles are equal.
Hence proved.
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