Take a thin thermal sheet. Cut it in circular discs of different radii like 2cm, 3cm, 4cm, 4.5cm. 5cm etc ad mark centers with sketch pen. Now take needles of length nearly firm. Pin a needle to each disc at its centre vertically. Take water in a large opaque tray and place the disc with 2cm radius in such a way that the raw& is inside the water ac shown in fig Q15. Now try to view the free end (head) of the needle from surface of the water.

• Why were you not able to view the head of the nail fix certain radii of the discs?
Because the light rays coming from the head of the nail for the certain radius undergoes the total internal reflection when they are incident on the surface of the water.
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