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Refraction through a Rectangular Glass Slab

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A ray of light travelling in air is incident on a parallel-sided glass slab (or rectangular glass slab) . Draw a ray-diagram indicating the change in its path in glass .

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The above diagram depicts the whole path followed by light incident on rectangular glass slab. Since glass is denser than air the light ray bends towards the normal .

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