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What are the important differences between looking at a photograph of your face and looking at yourself in a plane mirror?
A boy with a mouth 5 cm wide stands 2 m away from a plane mirror. Where is his image and how wide is the image of his mouth?
What is meant by 'reflection of light'?
Define the following terms used in the study of reflection of light by drawing a labelled ray-diagram:
- Incident ray
- Point of incidence
- Normal
- Reflected ray
- Angle of incidence
- Angle of reflection
State and explain the laws of reflection of light at a plane surface (like a plane mirror), With the help of a labelled ray-diagram. Mark the angles of 'incidence' and 'reflection' clearly on the diagram. If the angle of reflection is 47.5°, what will be the angle of incidence?
Explain why, though both a plane mirror and a sheet of paper reflect light but we can see the image of our face in a plane mirror but not in a sheet of paper.
The image of an object formed by a plane mirror is:
(a) virtual
(b) real
(c) diminished
(d) upside-down
A man sits in an optician's chair looking into plane mirror which is 2 m away from him and views the image of a chart which faces the mirror and is 50 cm behind his head. How far away from his eyes does the chart appear to be?
Name the phenomenon due to which a swimming pool appears less deep than it really is.
A ray of light travelling in air is incident on a rectangular glass block and emerges out into the air from the opposite face. Draw a labelled ray diagram to show the completer path of this ray of light. Mark the two points where the refraction of light takes place. What can you say about the final direction of ray of light?
Light travels more quickly through water than through glass.
- Which is optically denser: water or glass?
- If a ray of light passes from glass into water, which way will it bend: towards the normal or away from the normal?
When a light ray passes from air into glass, what happens to its speed? Draw a diagram to show which way the ray of light bends.
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.
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
A ray of light passes from a medium X to another medium Y. No refraction of light occurs if the ray of light hits the boundary of medium Y at an angle of:
(a) 0°
(b) 45°
(c) 90°
(d) 120°
How does the light have to enter the glass:
to produce a large amount of bending?
A ray of light when passes from glass to air, bends towards the normal.
The depth of a pond when seen from above appears to be less.
Air is optically .......... than glass.
When a ray of light travels from water to air, it bends ............. the normal.
Explain how the formation of a rainbow occurs.
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?
Lights of different colours are used as signal for safety transport. From these, the wavelength of red light is _______ nm.
The incident rays and refracting rays are on opposite sides of the normal.
The refractive index of four substances A, B, C, and D are 1.31, 1.43, 1.33, 2.4 respectively. The speed of light is maximum in
The refractive index of a transparent medium is always greater than ______.
Assertion and reasoning type
- Assertion: If the refractive index of the medium is high (denser medium) the velocity of the light in that medium will be small
- Reason: Refractive index of the medium is inversely proportional to the velocity of the light

The angle of incidence from air to glass at the point O on the hemispherical glass slab is.
Which object use the reflection of light?
How does the light travel?
Under what circumstances there won’t be any refraction of light when it enters from one medium to another?
The bottom of swimming pool appears to be less deep than the actual one because of
When a ray of light travels normal to the given surface, then the angle of refraction is ______.


