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What is the Other Name For Myopia - Science

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What is the other name for 

 myopia

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उत्तर

The other name of myopia is short-sightedness.

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अध्याय 6: The Human Eyes And The Colorful World - Exercise 2 [पृष्ठ २७९]

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लखमीर सिंग Physics (Science) [English] Class 10
अध्याय 6 The Human Eyes And The Colorful World
Exercise 2 | Q 5.1 | पृष्ठ २७९

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Do you know that the corneal-impairment can be cured by replacing the defective cornea with the cornea of the donated eye? How and why should we organise groups to motivate the community members to donate their eyes after death?


A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond 1.2 m distinctly. What should be the type of the corrective lens used to restore proper vision?


 Which defect of vision can be rectified: 

by using a concave lens?


What is the scientific name of 

long-sightedness?


Name the defect of vision in which the eye-lens loses its power of accommodation due to old age.


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 long-sightedness? State the two causes of long-sightedness (or hypermetropia). With the help of ray diagrams, show:
(i) the eye-defect long-sightedness.
(ii) correction of long-sightedness by using a lens.


 An eye has a near point distance of 0.75 m. What sort of lens in spectacles would be needed to reduce the near point distance to 0.25 m? Also calculate the power of lens required. Is this eye long-sighted or short-sighted? 


Which part of the eye is grafted in a needy patient from a donated eye?


Describe the mechanism of focusing the image of a distant object in your eye when you raise your head after reading a book.


Enumerate the common defects of vision, their causes and the possible methods of correcting them.


State one role of ciliary muscles in the human eye.


An old man cannot see objects closer than 1 m from the eye clearly. Name the defect of vision he is suffering from. How can it be corrected? Draw ray diagram for the (i) defect of vision and also (ii) for its correction.


List two causes of presbyopia. Draw labelled diagram of a lens used for the correction of this defect of vision. 


Given below is a diagram depicting a defect of the human eye? Study the same and answer the question that follow:

Give two possible reasons for this defect of the eye in human beings.


Given below is a diagram depicting a defect of the human eye? Study the same and answer the question that follow:

Draw a labeled diagram to show how the above mentioned defect is rectified using the lens named above.


Have a look at the posture of this woman who is reading a book and answer the questions which follow:

What are the two conditions shown in sections A and B of the eye as applicable to her?


The near point of the eye of a person is 50 cm. Find the nature and power of the corrective lens required by the person to enable him to see clearly the objects placed at 25 cm from the eye?


Give Reason:

Deficiency of vitamin A causes night blindness.


What type of lens is used to correct Hypermetropia?


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