Question

Noor, a young student, was trying to demonstrate some properties of light in her Science project work. She kept ‘X’ inside the box (as shown in the figure) and with the help of a laser pointer made light rays pass through the holes on one side of the box. She had a small butter-paper screen to see the spots of light being cast as they emerged.

If the object inside the box was made of a material with a refractive index less than 1.5 then the ______.

Options

• lateral shift of the rays would have been less

• lateral shift of the rays would have been more

• lateral shift of the rays would remain the same as before

• there is not enough information to comment on any of the above statements

Answer 1

If the object inside the box was made of a material with a refractive index less than 1.5 then the lateral shift of the rays would have been less.