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Two vertical parallel mirrors A and B are separated by 10 cm. A point object O is placed at a distance of 2 cm from mirror A. The distance of the second nearest image behind mirror A from the mirror A is _______ cm.

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Which of the following statements is true?
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A man is 160 cm tall and his eyes are 15 cm below the top of his head. In order to see his entire height, right from the top to head, he uses a plane mirror kept at a distance of 1 m from him. The minimum length of the plane mirror required is
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 Which mirror has an infinite focal length? 
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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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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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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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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:
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A flat mirror revolves at a constant angular velocity making n=0.4 revolutions per second. With what velocity (in m s-1) will a light spot move along a spherical screen with a radius of 15 m, if the mirror is at the centre of curvature of the screen?
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A concave mirror has radius of curvature of 40 cm. It is at the bottom of a glass that has water filled up to 5 cm (see figure). If a small particle is floating on the surface of water, its image as seen, from directly above the glass, is at a distance d from the surface of water. The value of d is close to: (Refractive index of water =1.33)
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A light ray is incident, at an incident angle θ1, on the system of two plane mirrors M1 and M2 having an inclination angle 75° between them (as shown in figure). After reflecting from mirror M1 it gets reflected back by the mirror M2 with an angle of reflection 30°. The total deviation of the ray will be _____ degree.

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An object is gradually moving away from the focal point of a concave mirror along the axis of the mirror. The graphical representation of the magnitude of linear magnification m versus distance of the object from the mirror x is correctly given by
(Graphs are drawn schematically and are not to scale)
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A spherical mirror is obtained as shown in the figure from a hollow glass sphere, if an object is positioned in front of the mirror, what will be the nature and magnification of the image of the object? (Figure down as schematic and not to scale)

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