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ASSIGNMENTS
1. (i) A ray of light falls on a plane mirror, show that if the mirror is tilted
through an angle , as shown in the figure, the reflected ray tilts through an
angle 2.
(ii) What is the magnification produced by a plane mirror?
(iii) Prove that the size of the image formed by a plane mirror is equal to
that of the object.
M2
2. By what angle should M2 be rotated, so that the light
ray after reflection from both the mirrors become 25
horizontal.
40
M1
Y
3. An object P is placed in front of a plane mirror at a
distance of 10 cm along line PX as shown in the figure.
What is the perpendicular distance of the image of p from 10cm
X
the mirror? P
30
O
4. Two mirrors M1 and M2 are placed with one edge together such that angle between them is 60° a
point object O is placed on the bisector of the angle between the mirrors at a distance of 10 cm
from the common edge. Calculate the distance between the images formed by the two mirrors.
5. Find the angle between two flat mirrors positioned such that a beam
of light incident on one of the mirrors at an arbitrary angle with a
plane that is perpendicular to the mirror surface on reflection from
both mirror surface it becomes parallel to incident beam but in
opposite direction.
6. The adjacent figure shows two plane mirrors parallel to each other and
an object O placed between them. Then, find the distance of first three 5 cm
images from the mirror M2 (in cm) O
15 cm
cm
M1 M2
23m B
7. Two plane mirrors A and B are aligned parallel to each other,
as shown in the figure. A light ray is incident at an angle 30 at
a point just inside one end of A. The plane of incidence
0.2m 30
coincides with the plane of the figure. Calculate the maximum
number of times the ray undergoes reflections (including the
first one) before it emerges out.
A
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8. A light ray is observed to be reflected at a
reflection angle r from a plane mirror. What
r
is the angle by which the light ray has been
deviated?
9. A concave mirror having a radius of curvature of 40 cm is placed in front of an illuminated point
source at a distance of 30 cm from it. Find the distance of the image.
10. An object 5 cm high is placed 20 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. At what
distance from the mirror, should a screen be placed to obtain a sharp image?
11. A man uses a concave mirror for shaving. He keeps his face at a distance of 25 cm from the
mirror and gets an image which is 1.4 times enlarged. Find the focal length of the mirror.
12. A particle goes in a circle of radius 2.0 cm. A concave mirror of focal length 20 cm is placed with
its principle axis passing through the centre of the circle and perpendicular to its plane. The
distance between the pole of the mirror and the centre of the circle is 30 cm. Calculate the radius
of the circle formed by the image.
13. A concave mirror produces three times magnified real image of an object placed at 10cm in front
of it. Find the position of image from the pole of mirror.
14. An object is placed at 18cm in front of a spherical mirror. If the diminished image is formed at 4cm
to the right of the mirror. Find focal length of mirror and nature of mirror. Also find the nature of
image.
15. In the figure shown a linear object AB of length 10cm is 20cm
placed in front of a concave mirror. Whose focal length is
10cm. Calculate the length of the image of AB.
Hint: Calculate the image distance for A & B and take their
difference. A B P
30cm
16. The image formed by a convex mirror of focal length 0.30 m is a quarter of the object. What is the
distance of the object from the mirror?
17. In the figure shown a square of side 10 cm is placed in front B C
of a concave mirror with sides AD and BC parallel to the
principle axis. Focal length of the mirror is 15cm and other
distances are shown. Calculate the area of the image.
A D P
30cm
40cm
18. An object is moving with speed 20 cm/s along principle axis of concave mirror of radius of
curvature 20 cm towards the pole. Find the speed of image in cm/s when object is at 30 cm from
the pole of mirror.
19. A convex mirror of focal length f produces an image half of the size of the object. Find the
distance of the object from the mirror.
20. An object is kept in front of a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. the image formed is three
times the size of object. Calculate two possible distance of the object from the mirror.
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21. A point source S is placed midway between two converging mirrors d
having equal focal length f as shown in the figure. Find the values of
d for which only one image is formed. (Hint: image due to one mirror
is the object for the other) S
22. A converging mirror M, a point source S and diverging mirror M2 M1 M2
are arranged as shown in the figure. The source is placed at a
distance of 30 cm from M1. the focal length of each of the mirrors is
20 cm. Consider only the images formed by a maximum of two S
reflections. It is found that one image is formed on the source itself.
(a) Find the distance between the two mirrors. (b) Find the location
of the image formed by the single reflection from M2.
23. An object is placed 0.05 m in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 0.15 m. Determine
the position of the image.
24. A man uses a concave mirror for shaving. He keeps his face at a distance of 25 cm from the
mirror and gets an image which is 1.4 times enlarged. Find the focal length of the mirror.
25 Find the distance of an object from a concave mirror of focal length 10cm so that the image size
is four times the size of the object.
26. A spherical mirror is to be used to form on a screen 5.0m from an object an image 5 times the
size of the object. (a) What type of mirror is required? (b) What is its focal length? (c) What should
be the separation between the mirror and the object?
27. A point object is placed in front of spherical mirror at point Y
P as shown figure. Consider OX and OY positive X and Y
axis. Find coordinate of image of point P f=15cm
P
1.2mm
O X
40cm
28. Find the co-ordinate of final image in each case after two Y F=20cm
reflection, one at each mirror (focal length of the concave P
mirror is 20cm and all other values are shown.) 2mm
Case I: Ist reflection on spherical mirror O X
Case II: Ist reflection on plane mirror 40cm 10cm
Hint: Image due to first reflection will be the object for the second reflection. For each reflection
sign convention must be used.
29. Find the focal length of spherical
mirror if both the images coincides 24cm O
at the same point in each of the P
following cases during to single 4cm P 15cm
30cm
reflection from both mirror.
(i) (ii)
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30. Find the position of final image from P2 M1 M2
after two reflection of object as shown in A
the figure if first reflection at concave.
Where AB = 1mm, P1 P2 = 50cm, P1 B = 30
cm. P1 B P2
f 1 = 20 cm f 2 = 20cm
f1 f2
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