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Question
Visit a nearby hospital. You can also visit the clinic of an ENT specialist, or a dentist. Request the doctor to show you the mirrors used for examining ear, nose, throat and teeth. Can you recognise the kind of mirror used in these instruments?
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Solution
Visit to a Hospital
Activity:
- Visit a nearby hospital, the clinic of an ENT specialist, or a dentist.
- Request the doctor to show you the mirrors used for examining the ear, nose, throat, and teeth.
- Observe the mirrors and try to recognize the kind of mirrors used in these instruments.
Observation:
- Doctors use small, specially designed mirrors in their instruments to examine patients' ears, nose, throat, and teeth.
Explanation:
The mirrors used in these medical instruments are typically concave mirrors.
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- Concave Mirrors: These mirrors are curved inward, allowing them to focus light onto a specific area. They provide a clear and magnified view of small and detailed structures like the ear canal, nasal passages, throat, and teeth.
Conclusion:
- Concave mirrors are commonly used in medical instruments to examine the ear, nose, throat, and teeth. They help doctors by focusing light and providing a magnified and clear view of the specific areas being examined.
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Match the items given in Column I with one or more items of Column II.
| Column I | Column II | ||
| (a) | A plane mirror | (i) | Used as a magnifying glass. |
| (b) | A convex mirror | (ii) | Can form image of objects spread over a large area. |
| (c) | A convex lens | (iii) | Used by dentists to see enlarged image of teeth. |
| (d) | A concave mirror | (iv) | The image is always inverted and magnified. |
| (e) | A concave lens | (v) | The image is erect and of the same size as the object. |
| (vi) | The image is erect and smaller in size than the object. |
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- the focal length of mirror
- position of image.
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concave mirror
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Principal focus
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Focal length
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