Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Define the following term:
convex mirror
Advertisements
उत्तर
“A mirror made by silvering the inner surface such that reflection takes place from the bulging surface” is called Convex Mirror.
The Centre of curvature is towards the silvered surface.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
A student obtains a sharp image of the distant window (W) of the school laboratory on the screen (S) using the given concave mirror (M) to determine its focal length. Which of the following distances should he measure to get the focal length of the mirror?

A ray of light is incident normally on a plane mirror. What will be the
angle of reflection?
A student obtained on a screen the sharp image of a candle flame placed at the farther end of laboratory table using a concave mirror. For getting better value of focal length of the mirror, the teacher suggested to him to focus the sun. What should the student do?
(A) Should move the mirror away from the screen.
(B) Should move the mirror towards the screen.
(C) Should move the mirror and screen both towards the sun.
(D) Should move only the screen towards the sun.
Name the mirrors shown in Figure (a) and (b).

Write two more characteristics of the image.
AB is the object, A'B' is the image, and MM' is the position of the mirror. Complete the ray diagram showing the formation of the image and find the focal length of the mirror.

If the focal length of a spherical mirror is 10 cm, what is the value of its radius of curvature?
How tall does a mirror have to be to fit an entire person’s body?
