Grade 10 students at KIS recently engaged in an insightful hands

Grade 10 students at Kothari International School recently engaged in an insightful hands on experiment that brought the concept of refraction of light to life. Using basic tools like pins, paper, a glass slab, and a protractor, students traced the path of a ray of light as it passed through a rectangular glass slab, observing how light bends when it moves between different mediums.
With precision and focus, they marked the incident, refracted, and emergent rays, and measured the angles of incidence and refraction. The experiment also clearly demonstrated the idea of lateral displacement, enhancing conceptual understanding through visual learning.
Key Concepts Explored:
Refraction at air-glass interfaces
Relationship between angles of incidence and refraction
Lateral displacement of parallel rays
Real-life applications in lenses, spectacles, and optical instruments
This experiential activity not only strengthened students’ measurement and observation skills, but also made a core physics principle both tangible and memorable illustrating how science is all around us.