Snell's Law with verification
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University of Fort Hare
Snell's Law with verification
Experiment with Snell's Law in this optics laboratory. Verification available.
- Ultraconcurrent labs
- University & College
- High School
Laboratory information
Snell's law (the law of refraction) is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through a boundary between two different isotropic media, such as water, glass, or air.
In this laboratory you can experiment with several lenses to find the refractive indices of different materials using this law.
In this version of the laboratory there is a verification stage in which students can see the solution with the measurements for a given experimental setup. If students shouldn't be able to see the solution, see the alternative "Snell's Law" version of the laboratory instead (without verification).
What students do
Operate real equipment and reason from the measurements.
- Recommended level
- University & College, High School
- Typical access model
- Ultraconcurrent labs
- Works on
- Modern web browsers on school, university, and home computers.
- Teaching use
- Suitable for assignments, demonstrations, LMS-linked activities, and remote practical work.
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Teaching resources
Public laboratory contents
Snell's Law (for the verification version)
Snell’s Law indicates how the direction of a light ray varies when it passes from one uniform material to another.
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There are two different versions of this lab. In the “with verification” version, students will be able to see the results. There is another version, the “no verification” version, in which students will have to take their own measurements and the laboratory itself will not give them the numerical results. This particular activity is designed for the former version (with verification mode) of the laboratory.
The objetives of this activity are:
- Introduce the student to remote experimentation
- Study Snell’s law by measuring incidence and refraction angles.
- Calculate the refraction index of a material in order to characterize materials by the refraction of light.
- To use previous results to make new predictions.
Snell's Law (for the with verification version) (answer)
Snell’s Law indicates how the direction of a light ray varies when it passes from one uniform material to another.
Read more
There are two different versions of this lab. In the “with verification” version students will be able to see the results. There is another version, the “no verification” version, in which students will have to take their own measurements and the laboratory itself will not give them the numerical results. This particular activity is designed for the first version (with verification mode) of the laboratory.
(This is the version with a solution. The version without a solution is available as another activity.)
The objetives of this activity are:
- Introduce the student to remote experimentation
- Study Snell’s law by measuring incidence and refraction angles.
- Calculate the refraction index of a material in order to characterize materials by the refraction of light.
- To use previous results to make new predictions.