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Observation Paper On Light

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I want to learn how to bend light so I can blind the guards and the video monitors guarding the Declaration of Independence so I can steal it and sign it myself. If we shine light on various objects and measure the angles of the reflected and the refracted light, then we will see what the light will do and how it behaves. An online site was used to shine light at prisms, air, water, and glass. We took measurements of the reflected and the refracted light, their intensity, the angle of vertical speed, and light waves. On the site, light was shined at different prisms. When we did this, it was observed that different light waves behave differently. They all refracted but some at a sharper angle than others.

When we were doing our experiments on the website, it was discovered that when light shines through a medium with a low density to a medium with a high density (i.e. air to water), the angle of refraction decreased. We expected it to refract at a 30 degree angle (angle of incidence), but instead it refracted at a 20.2 degree angle. This also happened when we did it from air to glass except the angle of refraction was at a 22 degree angle. It was experimented what would happen when light was shined through a medium with a high density to a medium with a low density. The angle of refraction was expected to decrease due to the other experiments, but instead it increased refracted at a 40.2 degree angle. …show more content…

It was discovered that the speed of light decreases as it passes through a medium higher density and when it passes through a medium with a lower density, the speed of light increases. For example, since air has a low density, light can travel through at 1.00c. Whereas with glass (which has a higher density), the light takes 0.67c to travel through. It was also discovered that a brighter light has bigger light waves and that a dimmer light has smaller light

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