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A ray of light strikes a plane mirror and gets reflected as shown in the adjoining diagram. If u^, v^ and n^  are unit vectors along the incident ray, reflected ray and the normal respectively, then which of the following relation is correct?

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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Consider a glass slab which is silvered at one side and the other side is transparent. Given the refractive index of the glass slab to be 1.5. If a ray of light is incident at an angle of 45° on the transparent side, the deviation of the ray of light from its initial path, when it comes out of the slab is
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Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other such that a ray of light incident on the first mirror M1 and parallel to the second mirror (M2) is finally reflected from the second mirror (M2) and parallel to the first mirror M1. The angle between the two mirrors will be:
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What is reflection? Write the laws of reflection.
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A ray of light, travelling in the direction 12i^+3 j^, is incident on a plane mirror. After reflection, it travels along the direction 12i^-3 j^. The angle of incidence is
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The incident ray, reflected ray and the outward drawn normal are denoted by the unitvectors a,band c respectively. Then choose the correct relation for these vectors.
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A point source of light, S is placed at a distance L in front of the center of plane mirror of width d which is hanging vertically on a wall. A man walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror, at a distance 2L as shown below. The distance over which the man can see the image of the light source in the mirror is:

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A tank is filled with water to a height of 12.5 cm. The apparent depth of a needle lying at the bottom of the tank is measured by a microscope to be 9.4 cm. What is the refractive index of water?
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Two plane mirrors are kept on a horizontal table making an angle θ with each other as shown schematically in the figure. The angle θ is such that any ray of light reflected after striking both the mirrors return parallel to its incident path. For this to happen, the value of θ should be

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A long horizontal mirror is next to a vertical screen (see figure). Parallel light rays are falling on the mirror at an angle α from the vertical. If a vertical object of height h is kept on the mirror at a distance d>h tanα. The length of the shadow of the object on the screen would be.

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Back surface of a glass (refractive index n and thickness t) is polished to work as a mirror as shown below. A laser beam falls on it and is partially reflected and refracted at the air-glass interface and fully reflected at the mirror surface, respectively. A pattern of discrete spots of light is observed on the screen.

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The spacing between the spots on the screen will be

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A mirror is placed at an angled of 30° with respect to y-axis (see figure). A light ray travelling in the negative y-direction strikes the mirror. The direction of the reflected ray is given by the vector

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The image of an object O due to reflection from the surface of a lake is elongated due to the ripples on the water surface caused by a light breeze. This is because the ripples act as tilted mirrors as shown below. Consider the case, where O and the observer E are at the same height above the surface of the lake. If the maximum angle that the ripples make with the horizontal is α, then the angular extent δ of the image will be

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A beam of light from a source L is incident normally on a plane mirror fixed at a certain distance x from the source. The beam is reflected back as a spot on a scale placed just above the source L. When the mirror is rotated through a small angle θ, the spot of the light is found to move through a distance y on the scale. The angle θ is given by
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When one light ray is reflected from a plane mirror with 30° angle of reflection, the angle of deviation of the ray after reflection is:
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A point source is placed at coordinates (0,1) in xy -plane. A ray of light from the source is reflected on a plane mirror placed along the X -axis and perpendicular to the xy -plane. The reflected ray passes through the point (3,3) . What is the path length of the ray from (0,1) to (3,3)?
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Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other at an angle of 60°. A point object is placed in between them. The total number of images produced by both the mirrors is
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Letters A,B,C and D are written on a cardboard as shown in the figure below.

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The cardboard is kept at a suitable distance behind a transparent empty glass of cylindrical shape. If the glass is now filled with water, one sees an inverted image of the pattern on the cardboard when looking through the glass. Ignoring magnification effects, the image would appear as

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The figure shows two plane mirrors inclined at 50°. A ray is incident on one of the mirrors at an arbitrary angle α. It gets reflected from this mirror and then from the other mirror.

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The angle between the incident ray and the emergent ray is

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A monochromatic beam of light enters a square enclosure with mirrored interior surfaces at an angle of incidence θi=(0) (see the figure below). For some value(s) of θi, the beam is reflected by every mirrored wall (other than the one with opening) exactly once and exists the enclosure through the same hole. Which of the following statements about this beam is correct?

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A ray of light is reflected by a plane mirror. e^0, e^ and n^ be the unit vectors along the incident ray, reflected ray and the normal to the reflecting surface respectively. Which of the following gives an expression for e^?

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