 Snell’s law and total internal reflection laboratory instructions, University of Maryland Department of Physics

Institutional laboratory instructions from University of Maryland Department of Physics, which hosts the document. No personal byline or separate institutional author credit is established. No publication or revision date is established; the course-path name and year do not establish an author, instructor or publication date.

Official laboratory instructions: physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys375/Appelbaum_Fall2010/LABS/Lab1.pdf

Cited passages: p. 1, laser and photodiode, stepper controller and rotation stage, aperture-limited voltage and retroreflection alignment; p. 1, detector-voltage versus angle scanning and beam-position uncertainty; p. 2, Total Internal Reflection: semicircular block concentric with rotation axis, detector along flat face and strong/weak near-critical signals.