Angle of Incidence Angle of Reflection

(degrees) (degrees)
Table 9.1 Measured angle of reflection for different
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angles of incidence
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Illusitration of Reflection

Whenever a light hit a surface that is capable of producing the lights reflection, the lights behavior is
east to determine. We first take a look on the illustration above that explains reflection of light. The
incoming ray of light from the light source is called incident ray while the reflected light by the surface is
called reflected ray (1). The incident rayt in the illustration is denoted by I while the reflected ray is
denoted by R. According to the Law of Reflection, the angle of the incidence which is angle of incident
ray with respect to the line normal of the surface is also equal to angle of reflection light with respect to
the line normal.
incident = reflected (1)
In the results of hitting the five rays of light on flat glass surface, we can have observed that the five rays
of light have the same angle for both reflected and incident light thus following the law of reflection
(1) The law of reflection. (n.d). The Physics Classroom retrieved from:
www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refln/Lesson-1/The-Law-of-Reflection