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Write laws of refraction. Explain the same with the help of ray diagram, when a ray of light passes through a rectangular glass slab.

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The following are the laws of refraction of light
(i) The incident ray, the refracted ray and the normal to the interface of two transparent media at the point of incidence, all lie in the same plane.
(ii) The ratio of sine of angle fo incidence to the sine of angle of refraction is constant, for the light of a given colour and for the given pair of media. This law is also known as the ray diagram is as shown.

In a rectangular or glass slab, the emergent rays are parallel to the incident ray because the extant of bending of the ray of light at the opposite parallel faced of rectangular glass slab are equal and opposite, so that emergent ray is parallel to incident ray.
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