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Answer 1

Answer:

The light enters the box along the normal to the side of the box or perpendicularly to the box's surface

Therefore, the light is expected to travel straight through the box

However, when a rectangular glass prism is placed inside the box, the light can then be refracted to pass through the box in the given path as shown

Light bends towards the normal when passing from a less dense medium to a denser medium with larger refractive index and vice versa

Therefore, when the glass prism with a larger refractive index than air is inclined with the top part further away from the incident beam and the bottom part closer to the incident beam as shown, the refracted ray through the box will be shifted downwards as shown in the drawing created with Microsoft Visio

Explanation:

$Refractive \ index, n = \dfrac{sin(i)}{sin(r)}$

Where;

i = The angle between the incidence light and the normal line

r = The angle between the refracted light and the normal line

n = The refractive index

When n > 1 is large, we have, ∠i > ∠r and the light is bent towards the normal when moving from a less dense medium to a denser medium and vice versa.