Reflection of Light
Reflection of Light: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Reflection of Light, Laws of Reflection of Light, Properties of Image in Plane Mirror, Beam of Light, Normal Incident Rays & Grazing Incident Rays etc.
Important Questions on Reflection of Light
A ray of light is incident on a plane mirror and the angle of reflection is . Calculate the angle between the incident ray and the reflected ray.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the image formed by a plane mirror?

Assertion(A): The formula connecting and for a spherical mirror is valid in all situations for all spherical mirrors for all positions of the object.
Reason (R): Laws of reflection are strictly valid for plane surfaces.

Match Column I with Column II
Column I | Column II |
(A) Relative speed | (P) Concave lens |
(B) Undeviated passage | (Q) Convex lens |
(C) Divergence of rays | (R) Refractive Index |
(D) Converging lens | (S) Ray through optical centre |

The radius of curvature of a plane mirror is infinity.

Angle of _____ is always equal to the angle of reflection.

When light fall obliquely on the surface of a thick glass slab, a part of the light reflects at the surface and a part of it refracts.

Light falls obliquely on the surface of a thick glass slab as shown in the figure. Which statement among the following is correct?

This is the angle (in degree) of reflection when a ray of light falls normally on a plane mirror.

No matter how far you stand from a mirror, your image appears erect. The mirror is likely to be

A ray of light takes grazing incidence on the first face of a prism and the emergent ray is normal to the second face of the prism. If is angle of deviation then the refracting angle of the prism is equal to

Grazing angle is also represented as:

In which year did Sir C.V. Raman got Nobel prize?

Explain lateral inversion.

A ray of light is incident at an angle of to a plane mirror. What is the angle between the incident ray and reflected ray?

What should be the minimum length of a plane mirror if you want to see your whole image in it?

A person standing in front of a plane mirror away seems to be _____.

For a light ray incident on a smooth surface and symbols denoting the usual meanings, which of the following relations are true?

The relative refractive index of diamond with respect to glass is 1.6. The optically denser medium of the two is _____.
