
Consider a tank made of glass (refractive index ) with a thick bottom. It is filled with a liquid of refractive index A student finds that, irrespective of what the incident angle (see figure) is for a beam of light entering the liquid, the light reflected from the liquid glass interface is never completely polarized. For this to happen, the minimum value of is:




Important Questions on Ray Optics
A convex lens is put from a light source and it makes a sharp image on a screen, kept from the lens. Now a glass block (refractive index ) of thickness is placed in contact with the light source. To get the sharp image again, the screen is shifted by a distance . Then is:




An object is at a distance of from a convex lens of focal length . The lens forms an image of the object. If the object moves away from the lens at a speed of , the speed and direction of the image will be:


What is the position and nature of the image formed by the lens combination shown in the figure? are focal lengths)

A point source of light is placed at a distance in front of the centre 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 as shown below. The distance over which the man can see the image of the light source in the mirror is
