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प्रश्न
Light travels more quickly through water than through glass.
If a ray of light passes from glass into water, which way will it bend : towards the normal or away from the normal?
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उत्तर
If a ray of light passes from glass to water, it will bend away from the normal because glass is a denser medium as compared to water.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The letter F is placed in front of a plane mirror:
How would its image look like when seen in a plane mirror?
Which type of reflection of light leads to the formation of images?
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.
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
The image formed by a plane mirror is :
(a) virtual, behind the mirror and enlarged.
(b) virtual, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object.
(c) real, at the surface of the mirror and enlarged.
(d) real, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object.
Name the phenomenon due to which a swimming pool appears less deep than it really is.
A ray of light passes from air into a block of glass. Does it bend towards the normal or away from it?
Fill in the following blank with suitable word:
Light bends when is passes from water into air. We say that it is ............
Light travels more quickly through water than through glass.
Which is optically denser : water or glass?
Match the Following
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) white Light | (1) Convex mirror |
| (b) Refraction | (2) Concave mirror |
| (c) Virtual images | (3) refraction |
| (d) Real images | (4) spectrum |
| (e) Prism | (5) ray of light from glass to air |
A light ray suffers reflection and refraction at the boundary in passing from air to water. Draw a neat labelled ray diagram to show it.
Fill in the blank and Explain the completed sentences.
The change in ______ of light rays while going from one medium to another is called refraction.
Observe the given figure and name the following.

| Ray AB | |
| Ray NM | |
| Ray MD | |
| ∠ r |
The refractive index of a transparent medium is always greater than ______.
You are given water, mustard oil, glycerine and kerosene. In which of these media a ray of light incident obliquely at same angle would bend the most?
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Her friend noted the following observations from this demonstration:
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- Air and glass allow light to pass through them with the same velocity.
- Air is optically rarer than glass.
- Speed of light through a denser medium is faster than that of a rarer medium.
- The ratio: sin of angle of incidence in the first medium to the ratio of sin of angle of refraction in the second medium, gives the refractive index of the second material with respect to the first one.
Which one of the combinations of the above statements given below is correct.
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The phenomenon of light passing through the object is called ______.
Under what circumstances there won’t be any refraction of light when it enters from one medium to another?
When a ray of light travels normal to the given surface, then the angle of refraction is ______.
