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What is the scientific name of 

long-sightedness?

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उत्तर

Hypermetropia is the scientific name of long-sightedness.

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

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लखमीर सिंह Physics (Science) [English] Class 10
पाठ 6 The Human Eyes And The Colorful World
Exercise 2 | Q 6.2 | पृष्ठ २७९

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संबंधित प्रश्‍न

In a Std. X class out of 40 students 10 students use spectacles, 2 students have positive power and 8 students have negative power of lenses in their spectacles.

Answer the following questions:

(1) What does the negative power indicate?

(2) What does the positive power indicate?

(3) Generally which type of spectacles do most of the students use?

(4) What defect of eyesight do most of the students suffer from?

(5) Give two possible reasons for the above defect.


A student suffering from myopia is not able to see distinctly the objects placed beyond 5 m. List two possible reasons due to which this defect of vision may have arisen. With the help of ray diagrams, explain

(i) why the student is unable to see distinctly the objects placed beyond 5 m from his eyes.

(ii) the type  of the corrective lens used to restore proper vision and how this defect is corrected by the use of this lens.

(b) If, in this case, the numerical value of the focal length of the corrective lens is 5 m, find the power of the lens as per the new Cartesian sign convention


Name the body part with which the terms myopia and hypermetropia are connected.


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?


Differentiate between members of the following pair with reference to what is asked in bracket.

Myopia and hyperopia (cause of the defect)


What is meant by optical illusion? Give one example.


Draw a ray diagram to show how Hypermetropia is defect can be corrected using a lens.


Write whether the following is true or false:
A convex lens is used for correcting myopia.


Choose the correct answer : 
Presbyopia is a disease of _____________


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?


Name the following:
The defect of the human eye caused due to the uneven surface of the cornea.


Give Technical Term:
The path which responsible for protecting the eye from sweat.


Nearsightedness: elongated eyeball : : farsightedness: _______


Myopia and hypermetropia can be corrected by:


Assertion: Myopia is the defect of vision in which a person cannot see distant objects clearly.

Reason: This due to eye-ball being too short.


Draw ray diagram showing myopic eye.


When do we consider a person to be myopic or hypermetropic? Explain using diagrams how the defects associated with myopic and hypermetropic eye can be corrected?


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

  1. Name the problem she is facing.
  2. What are the two conditions shown in sections A and B of the eye as applicable to her.
  3. What kind of reading glasses does she need?
A B

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