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प्रश्न
Fill in the following blank with suitable word:
Light bends when is passes from water into air. We say that it is ............
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उत्तर
Light bends when is passes from water into air. We say that it is refracted.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
| Column I | Column II | Column III | |
| 1 | Dispersion | Long-sightedness | Twinkling of stars |
| 2 | Refraction | Splitting of white light into component colours | Convex lens |
| 3 | Hypermetropia | Change in the direction of the ray of light due to change in medium | Spectrum of seven colours |
Fill in the following blank with a suitable word:
When light is reflected, the angles of incidence and reflection are ............ .
The boy walks towards the mirror at a speed of 1 m/s. At what speed does his image approach him?
If a ray of light goes form a denser medium to a rarer medium, will it bend towards the normal or away from the normal?
State two effects caused by the refraction of light.
A coin in a glass tumbler appears to rise as the glass tumbler is slowly filled with water. Name the phenomenon responsible for this effect.
- With the help of a diagram, show how when light falls obliquely on the side of a rectangular glass slab, the emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray.
- Show the lateral displacement of the ray on the diagram.
Water is optically denser than glass.
The speed of light is more in glass than in water.
When a ray of light travels from water to air, it bends ............. the normal.
Draw suitable diagrams to illustrate how a beam of light incident parallel to the principal axis is reflected by:
(a) a concave mirror, and (b) a convex mirror
List four characteristics of the image formed by a concave lens of focal length 20 cm when the object is placed at a distance of 40 cm from its optical centre.
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?
Write scientific reason.
The sun appears on the western horizon for some time after sunset.
Numerical problems.
The speed of light in water is 2.25 × 108 ms–1. If the speed of light in vacuum is 3 × 108 ms–1, calculate the refractive index of water.
The angle of incidence for a ray of light having zero reflection angle is ______.
Which surface will not reflect most of the light falling on them?
How does the light travel?
According to the second law of refraction, for a given pair of media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction:
