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प्रश्न
Write the word AMBULANCE as it would appear when reflected in a plane mirror. Why is it sometimes written in this way (as its mirror image) on the front of an ambulance?
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उत्तर
The word ambulance would appear as 
when reflected in a plane mirror. It is written this way so as to help a person driving a vehicle ahead of the ambulance to read it as AMBULANCE when he/she sees the rear view mirror. This is because the rear view mirror forms a laterally inverted image.
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| 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 |
What is lateral inversion? Explain by giving a suitable example.
State the uses of plane mirrors.
A man stands 10 m in front of a large plane mirror. How far must the walk before he is 5 m away from his image?
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Light travels more quickly through water than through glass.
Which is optically denser : water or glass?
Show the lateral displacement of the ray on the diagram.
Light travelling from a denser medium to a rarer medium along a normal to the boundary:
(a) is refracted towards the normal
(b) is refracted away from the normal
(c) goes along the boundary
(d) is not refracted
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(a) it is refracted towards the normal
(b) it is not refracted at all
(c) it goes along the normal
(d) it is refracted away from the normal
When a ray of light travels from air to glass, it bends .......... the normal.
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The laws of reflection hold true for ______.
In the above diagram light is travelling through different media. It is noted by a scientist that ∠1= ∠3 = ∠4 but ∠2 < ∠1. Which of the following statement would be correct?
Which surface will not reflect most of the light falling on them?
Light is refracted or bent while going from one medium to another because of its ______ changes.
Under what circumstances there won’t be any refraction of light when it enters from one medium to another?
