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What do you mean by spherical mirror formula?

Important Questions on Reflection of Light

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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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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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An object is placed in front of a concave mirror. It is observed that a virtual image is formed. Draw the ray diagram to show the image formation and hence derive the mirror equation 1f=1u+1v.
 
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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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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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Deduce the mirror formula 1v+1u=1f

( where the symbols have their usual meanings ) for a concave mirror forming real image.

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An object is placed at a distance of 12 cm from a convex lens. A convex mirror of focal length 15 cm is placed on another side of the lens at 8 cm as shown in the figure. The image of the object coincides with the object.

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When the convex mirror is removed, a real and inverted image is formed at a position. The distance of the image from the object will be ___ cm

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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 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 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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A ray of light parallel to the principal axis of a spherical mirror falls at a point M as shown in the figure below:

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By drawing a suitable ray diagram, obtain the mirror equation.

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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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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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Deduce an expression for mirror equation. Draw necessary ray diagram.
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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 of height  2.5 cm is placed perpendicularly on the principal axis of a concave mirror of focal length fat a distance of 34fWhat will be the nature of the image of the object and its height
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An object is placed at a distance of 25 cm on the axis of a concave mirror having focal length 20 cm. What will be the lateral magnification of an 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: