Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
What is the other name for
myopia
Advertisements
उत्तर
The other name of myopia is short-sightedness.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Given below is a diagram showing a defect of human eye. Study it and answer the following questions.

(i) Name the defect shown in the figure.
(ii) Give reason for this defect of eye in human being.
(iii) Name the type of lens used to correct the eye defect.
A student is unable to see clearly the words written on the black board placed at a distance of approximately 3 m from him. Name the defect of vision the boy is suffering from. State the possible causes of this defect and explain the method of correcting it.
Name the defect of vision which makes the eye-lens cloudy resulting in blurred vision.
Where is the near point of a person suffering from hypermetropia (or long-sightedness)?
Your friend can read a book perfectly well but cannot read the writing on blackboard unless she sits on the front row in class.
What type of lenses-converging or diverging-would an optician prescribe for her?
A man can read the number of a distant but clearly but he finds difficulty in reading a book.
From which defect of the eye is he suffering?
Explain with the help of labelled ray diagram, the defect of vision called myopia and how it is corrected by a lens.
Explain with the help of labelled ray-diagram, the defect of vision called hypermetropia, and hot it is corrected by a lens.
The near-point of a person suffering from hypermetropia is at 50 cm from his eye. What is the nature and power of the lens needed to correct this defect? (Assume that the near-point of the normal eye is 25 cm).
What is short-sightedness? State the two causes of short-sightedness (or myopia). With the help of ray diagrams, show:
(i) the eye-defect short-sightedness.
(ii) correction of short-sightedness by using a lens.
The picture given here shows a person wearing 'half-moon' spectacles. What sort of eye-defect do do you think he has? Why are these particular spectacles useful to him?
You do not enjoy watching a movie from a very short distance from the screen in a cinema hall. Why?
What eye defect is hypermetropia? Describe with a ray diagram how this defect of vision can be corrected by using an appropriate lens.
List two causes of presbyopia. Draw labelled diagram of a lens used for the correction of this defect of vision.
Anuja cannot see the blackboard writing but she can see nearby things.
(a) What is the eye defect she is suffering from?
(b) State the possible reason for her defect.
(c) How is it corrected
Give Reason:
Why do we see clearly in the central region of the retina?
Draw a neat labeled diagram to show how hypermetropia can be rectified.
Nearsightedness: elongated eyeball : : farsightedness: _______
Assertion: Concave mirrors are used as reflectors in torches, vehicle head lights and in search lights.
Reason: When an object is placed beyond the center of curvature of a concave mirror, the image formed is real and inverted.
