Reflection at Plane and Spherical Surfaces

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Reflection at Plane and Spherical Surfaces: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Reflection of Light, Laws of Reflection of Light, Average Speed of Image in Concave Mirror & Focal Plane of a Spherical Mirror etc.

Important Questions on Reflection at Plane and Spherical Surfaces

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An object is placed at 30 cm from the concave mirror of focal length 20 cm, the nature of the image and magnification will be

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State and visualise the laws of reflection.

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State and visualise the first law of reflection.

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Where the origin is taken, while solving problem regarding the spherical mirror

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What is the centre of curvature of spherical mirrors ?

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A ray of light is incident towards a plane mirror at an angle of 30° with the mirror surface.What will be the angle of reflection?

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In the following, ray diagram of convex mirror,when object is placed at infinity then the nature of the image is _____________.

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In the given ray diagram of convex mirror, when object is placed between infinity and pole then image is formed between pole and focus?

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Draw the ray diagram of convex mirror,in case of when object is placed at infinity?

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In a convex mirror, magnification is

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In a concave mirror for real images magnification is taken in respect of heights.

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When object is placed to the left side of a mirror,the object distance is always__________.

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The upward distances perpendicular to the principal axis are taken as positive.

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Distances measured in the direction of incident light are taken as _____, while distance measured opposite to the direction of the incident light are taken as negative.

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The principal focus of a spherical mirror lie midway between the _____ and centre of curvature.

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The principal focus of a spherical mirror lie midway between the pole and centre of curvature.

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An object beyond the centre of curvature forms a real and _____ image between the focal point and the centre of curvature.

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Is centre of curvature a part of mirror?

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Centre of curvature of a concave mirror lies___________.

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The transverse magnification of convex mirror is always less than 1.