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Physics Lab Reflection

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Lab Reflection: Light is a very important and interesting subject from how it bends to how it bounces off walls allowing someone to see in the dark. The point of this lab was to discover how light bends. The answer was crucial so that it would be possible to kidnap Donald Trump. Another reason this was needed was so it would be easy to get through the laser security at the white house. Before the lab it was hypothesised that if the light around could bend it would be simple to get through, it was thought that glass would work more effectively. Further on it was tested to see what mediums light bends more in. To find out where light bended more a computer simulation was used. In the simulation light was shone through different mediums (water, air, and glass) and through different types of prisms. Wavelengths and all the different angles (angle of incident, refraction, and reflection) and the speed were recorded and compared. An important fact that was found was that light bends more in denser mediums than it does in mediums of less densities. The reason being the wavelength of the light slows down making it possible for the light to bend. With the part of simulation where the light was shone on to prisms the light would create a rainbow, each colour of the rainbow had different wavelengths and frequencies.

Light reacts to different density in different ways. An example of this act is that when light goes through a medium of a low density to a medium of a high

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