Abstract
A light ray, incident at about 5° to the normal, is geometrically plotted through the drawing of the cross section of a soybean leaf wing Fresnel's Equations and Snell's Law. The optical mediums of the leaf considered for ray tracing are: air, cell sap, chloroplast and cell wall. The above ray is also drawn through the same leaf cross section considering cell wall and air as the only optical mediums. The values of the reflection and transmission found from ray tracing agree closely with the experimental results obtained using a Beckman DK-2A Spectroreflectometer.
LARS Tech Report Number
022373
Date of this Version
January 1972
Recommended Citation
Kumar, R. and Silva, L., "Light Ray Tracing through a Leaf Cross Section" (1972). LARS Technical Reports. Paper 16.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/larstech/16
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