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Refraction through a glass slab: ray diagram and lateral displacement

The same question, asked 3 times: 2024*, 2025*, 2026. Every wording below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    2024

    23
    A ray of light falls making an angle of incidence θ\theta on the surface of a glass slab. Draw a labelled ray diagram to show its path. Also mark lateral displacement on it.
  2. Question 2

    2024

    36 (b)
    (i) State laws of refraction of light. (ii) Draw a ray diagram to show refraction of a ray of light through a rectangular glass slab. How is the emergent ray related to incident ray ? Mark lateral displacement in the diagram.
  3. Question 3

    2025

    36 (b)
    (i) Draw a ray diagram to show the refraction of a ray of light through a rectangular glass slab when it falls obliquely from air into glass. (ii) State Snell’s law of refraction of light. (iii) Differentiate between the virtual images formed by a convex lens and a concave lens on the basis of : (I) object distance, and (II) magnification.
  4. Question 4

    2025

    36 (a)
    (i) “In refraction of light through a rectangular glass slab, the emergent ray is always parallel to the direction of the incident ray.” Why ? Explain with the help of a ray diagram. What happens when a ray of light falls normally on one of the faces of a rectangular glass prism ? Draw diagram. (ii) An object is placed at a distance of 30 cm from the optical centre of a concave lens of focal length 20 cm. Use Lens formula to determine the position of the image formed in this case.
  5. Question 5

    2026

    33
    Draw the ray diagram showing refraction through a glass slab and write the relation between angle of incidence, angle of refraction and refractive index of glass.