12. A mobile phone lies along the principal axis of a concave mirror, as shown in fig.

Show by
suitable diagram the formation of its image. Explain why the magnification is not
uniform, and distortion will occur depending on the location of the mobile with respect
to the mirror.

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RAY OPTICS : REFLECTION & REFRACTION OF LIGHT
 PROBLEM BASED ON REFLCTION OF LIGHT:
 1 MARK QUESTIONS:
1. A concave mirror is held in water. What should be change in the focal length of the
mirror? 13. With the help of a suitable ray diagram, derive the mirror formula for a concave mirror.
2. What is the advantage of using a parabolic concave mirror (as compared to a convex Draw a ray diagram to show the image formation by a concave mirror when the object is
lens) as objective of a telescope? kept between its focus and the pole. Using this diagram, derive the magnification
3. Why are mirrors used in search-lights parabolic and not concave spherical? formula for the image formed.
4. If you were driving a car, what type of mirror would you prefer to use for observing 14. Use the mirror equation to deduce that:
traffic at your back? a) An object placed between f and 2f of a concave mirror produces a real image
5. What changes in the focal length of a: beyond 2 f.
(i) concave mirror and (ii) convex lens occur, b) A concave mirror always produces a virtual image independent of the location of
when the incident violet light on them is replaced with red light? the object.
6. A water tank is 4 m deep. A candle flame is held 6 m above the water level. For water, µ c) The virtual image produced by a convex mirror is always diminished in size and
= 4/3. Where will the image of the candle flame be formed? located between the focus and the pole.
7. What is the focal length (or radius curvature) of a plane mirror? d) An object placed between the pole and focus of a concave mirror produces a
8. When an object is placed between f and 2f of a concave mirror, would the image formed virtual and enlarged image.
be (i) real or virtual and (ii) diminished or magnified?
9. A concave mirror, of aperture 4 cm, has a point object placed on its principal axis at a  NUMERICALS:
distance of 10 cm from the mirror. The image, formed by the mirror, is not likely to be a
sharp image. State the likely reasons for the same. 15. A square wire of side 3.0 cm is placed 25 away from a concave mirror of focal length 10
10. Redraw the diagram given below and mark the position of the centre of curvature of the cm. What is the area enclosed by the image of the wire? (The centre of the wire is on
spherical mirror used in the given set up. the axis of the mirror, with its two sides normal to the axis). [Ans. 4 cm2]
16. A concave mirror of focal length 10 cm is placed at a distance of 35 cm from a wall. How
far from the wall should an object be placed to get its image on the wall?
[Ans. 21 cm]

 2 & 3 MARKS QUESTIONS:

11. The distances of an object and its real image, measured from the focus of a concave
mirror, are a and b respectively. Show that f2=ab.
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  PROBLEM BASED ON REFRACTION OF LIGHT:
17. A 5 cm long needle is place 10 cm from a convex mirror of focal length 40 cm. Find the
position nature and size of the image of the needle. What happens to the size of image  1 MARK QUESTIONS:
when the needle is moved farther away from the mirror? [Ans +8 cm]
18. An object is placed at a distance of 40 cm on the principal axis of a concave mirror of 15. For the same angle of incidence, the angles of refraction in three different media A, B
radius of curvature 30 cm. By how much does the image move if the object is shifted and C are 15°, 25° and 35° respectively. In which medium will the velocity of light be
towards the mirror through 15 cm. [Ans. 13.5 cm] minimum?
19. An object is placed exactly midway between a concave mirror of radius of curvature 40 16. Do the frequency and wavelength change when light passes from a rarer to a denser
cm and a convex mirror of radius of curvature 30 cm. the mirrors face each other and medium?
are 50 cm apart. Determine the nature and position of the image formed by successive 17. State the factors on which the refractive index of a material medium for a light of given
reflections first at the concave mirror and then at the convex mirror. wavelength depend?
[Ans. +21.43 cm] 18. How does the refractive index of a transparent medium depend on the wavelength of
20. An object is placed at a distance of 36 cm from a convex mirror. A plane mirror is placed incident light used?
between so that the two virtual images so formed coincide. If the plane mirror is at a 19. In which direction relative to the normal, does a ray of light bend, when it enters
distance of 24 cm from the object, find the radius of curvature of the convex mirror. obliquely a medium in which its speed is increased?
[Ans. 36 cm] 20. For which material the value of refractive index is (i) minimum and (ii) maximum?
21. Light of wavelength 6000 Å in air enters a medium of refractive index 1.5. What will be
its frequency in the medium?
22. When light undergoes refraction, what happens to its frequency?
23. Out of red and blue lights, for which colour is the refractive index of glass greater?

 NUMERICALS :

24. A light of wavelength 6000 Å in air, enters a medium with refractive index 1.5. What will
be the frequency and wavelength of light in that medium?
[Ans. 5×1014 Hz, 4000 Å]
25. The refractive index of glass is 1.5 and that of water is 1.3. If the speed of light in water
21. An object is kept infront of a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. The image formed is
is 2.25×108 m/s, what is the speed of light in glass?
three times the size of the object. Calculate the two possible distances of the object
[Ans. 1.95×108 m/s]
from the mirror. [Ans. –20 cm, –10 cm]
26. The apparent of an object at the bottom of tank with a liquid of refractive index 1.3 is
22. When the distance of an object from a concave mirror is decreased form 15 cm to 9 cm, 7.7 cm. What is the actual depth of the liquid in the tank?
the image gets magnified 3 times than that in first case. Calculate the focal length of the
[Ans. 10.01 cm]
mirror, [Ans. –6 cm]
27. The velocity of light in glass is 2×108 m/s and that in air is 3×108 m/s. By how much
23. To objects A and B when placed one after another in front of a concave mirror of focal would an ink dot appear to be raised, when covered by a glass plates 6.0 cm thick?
length 10 cm, form images of same size. Size of object A is 4 times that of B. If object A [Ans. 2 cm]
is placed a distance of 50 cm from the mirror, what should be the distance of B from the 28. A transparent cube of side 210 mm contains a small air bubble. Its apparent distance,
mirror? [Ans. –20 cm] when viewed through one face of the cube is 100 mm and when viewed through the
24. A thin rod of length f/3 is along the optic axis of a concave mirror of focal length opposite face is 40 mm. What is the actual distance of the bubble from the second face
f such that its image which is real and elongated just touches the rod. What will and what is the refractive index of the material of the cube?
be the magnification? [Ans. 1.5] [Ans. 60 mm, 1.50]

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