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In an optical bench experiment to determine the focal length of the concave mirror, the least count of the bench scale (meter scale) is 0.1cm. The object needle reading is 10.7cm and the image needle reading is 5.7cm. The mirror is positioned at 15.7cm.

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An object P is placed 14cm in front of a convex mirror. The image of the object is located 7cm behind the mirror. A second object Q which is twice as tall as P, is placed in front of the same mirror at a different location. The image of Q has the same height as that of the image of P. What is the distance of Q from the mirror?
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An object is placed beyond the centre of curvature C of the given concave mirror. If the distance of the object is d1 from C and the distance of the image formed is d2 from C, the radius of curvature of this mirror is:

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A concave mirror has a focal length of 60 cm. An object is placed in front of it at a distance of 30 cm from the mirror. The image is
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An object of height 2.0 cm is placed on the principal axis of a concave mirror at a distance of 12 cm from the pole. If the image is inverted, real and 5 cm in height then location of the image and focal length of the mirror respectively are

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An object is placed on the principal axis of a concave mirror at a distance of 1.5f (f is the focal length). The image will be at,
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The magnification of image formed at a distance of 4 cm by a needle when it is placed at a distance of X cm away from a convex mirror of focal length 12 cm.
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Rays from sun converge at a point 15cm in front of concave mirror. Where should the object be placed so that size of its image is equal to the size of the object?
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An object is kept in front of a concave mirror of 15 cm focal length. The image formed is real and three times the size of the object. Find the distance of the object from the mirror.
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A candle placed 25 cm from a lens forms an image on the screen placed 75 cm on the other side of the lens. The focal length and type of the lens should be
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An object is placed at a distance of 20 cm from the pole of a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm. The distance of the image formed is
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A candle is placed at 12 cm distance from a concave mirror. Radius of curvature of the mirror is 10 cm. Find the position, nature and magnification of the image. 
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A point object is moving uniformly towards the pole of a concave mirror of focal length 25 cm along its axis as shown below. The speed of the object is 1 ms-1. At t=0, the distance of the object from the mirror is 50 cm. The average velocity of the image formed by the mirror between time t=0 and t=0.25 s is:

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Deduce an expression for mirror equation. Draw necessary ray diagram.
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An object is placed at a distance 10 cm from the convex mirror of focal length 15 cm. The distance of image from the mirror is :
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An object is placed at 10 cm distance infront of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 40 cm. Find the position, nature and magnification of the image.

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With the help of a diagram, obtain a relation between object distance, image distance and focal length of a concave mirror. If the concave mirror is immersed in water, will the above equation be still valid ?
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An object is placed 12 cm in front of a convex mirror of focal length 18 cm. Determine the position and nature of the image.
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An object is placed at 9 cm in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 12 cm. The following statement is true
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A concave mirror of focal length 15 cm, forms an image having twice the linear dimensions of the object. The position of the object, when the image is virtual, will be
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To find the focal length of a convex mirror, a student records the following data:
Object pin Convex Lens Convex Mirror Image Pin
22.2 cm 32.2 cm 45.8 cm 71.2 cm
The focal length of the convex lens is f1 and that of mirror is f2 . Then taking index correction to be negligibly small, f1 and f2 are close to: