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प्रश्न
The speed of light varies in different media.
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उत्तर
The speed of light varies in different media- Right
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What is refraction of light?
If an object is placed at a distance of 10 cm in from of a plane mirror, how far would it be from its image?
Which property of light makes a pencil cast a shadow when it is held in front of a light source?
What is lateral inversion? Explain by giving a suitable example.
A wall reflects light and a mirror also reflects light. What difference is three in the way they reflect light?
The boy walks towards the mirror at a speed of 1 m/s. At what speed does his image approach him?
An extended object in the form of an arrow pointing upward has been placed in front of a plane mirror. Draw a labelled ray-diagram to show the formation of its image.
What is meant by 'reflection of light'?
Define the following terms used in the study of reflection of light by drawing a labelled ray-diagram:
(a) Incident ray
(b) Point of incidence
(c) Normal
(d) Reflected ray
(e) Angle of incidence
(f) Angle of reflection
A man stands 10 m in front of a large plane mirror. How far must the walk before he is 5 m away from his image?
An object is placed 20 cm in front of a plane mirror. The mirror is moved 2 cm towards the object. The distance between the positions of the positions of the original and final images seen in the mirror is ______.
A ray of light passes from air into a block of glass. Does it bend towards the normal or away from it?
In which material do you think light rays travel faster-glass or air?
Why does a ray of light bend when it travels from one medium to another?
Light travelling from a denser medium to a rarer medium along a normal to the boundary:
(a) is refracted towards the normal
(b) is refracted away from the normal
(c) goes along the boundary
(d) is not refracted
A vertical ray of light strikes the horizontal surface of some water:
What is the angle of incidence?
How does the light have to enter the glass:
to produce a large amount of bending?
Water is optically denser than glass.
Water is optically .......... than air.
A ray of light A incident from air suffers partial reflection and refraction at the boundary of water.

- Complete the diagram showing (i) the reflected ray B and (ii) the refracted ray C.
- How are the angles of incidence i and refraction r related?
Define the principal focus of a concave mirror.
Explain how the formation of a rainbow occurs.
A real image is formed by the light rays after reflection or refraction when they:
- actually meet or intersect with each other.
- actually converge at a point.
- appear to meet when they are produced in the backward direction.
- appear to diverge from a point.
Which of the above statements are correct?
The laws of reflection hold true for ______.
Lights of different colours are used as signal for safety transport. From these, the wavelength of red light is _______ nm.
Identify the wrong figure from the following.
Observe the given figure and name the following.

| Ray AB | |
| Ray NM | |
| Ray MD | |
| ∠ r |
The deviation of light ray from its path when it travels from one transparent medium to another transparent medium is called ______.

The angle of incidence from air to glass at the point O on the hemispherical glass slab is.

In the above diagram light is travelling through different media. It is noted by a scientist that ∠1= ∠3 = ∠4 but ∠2 < ∠1. Which of the following statement would be correct?
A pencil when dipped in water in a glass tumbler appears to be bent at the interface of air and water. Will the pencil appear to be bent to the same extent, if instead of water we use liquids like, kerosene or turpentine. Support your answer with reason.
Which object use the reflection of light?
How does the light travel?
A ray of light traveling in medium 1 strikes and travels into another transparent medium 2. If the speed of light is greater in medium 1, the ray will ______.
Light is refracted or bent while going from one medium to another because of its ______ changes.
Mirage is an example of refraction and the total internal reflection of light.
The bottom of swimming pool appears to be less deep than the actual one because of
