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GEOMETRICAL OPTICS - SHEET: 1(Lecture-1&2)
LEVEL-I
1. Light of wavelength 5000 Å falls on a plane reflecting surface. What are the wavelength and frequency of the
reflected light? For what angle of incidence is the reflected ray normal to the incident ray?

2. A plane mirror reflects a pencil of light to form a real image. Then the pencil of light incident on the mirror is
(A) Parallel (B) Convergent (C) Divergent (D) None of these

3. What should be the angle between two plane mirrors so that whatever be the angle of incidence, the incident
ray and the reflected ray from the two mirrors be parallel to each other
(A) 60 (B) 90 (C) 120 (D) 175

4. A plane mirror reflecting a ray of incident light is rotated through an angle  about an axis through the point of
incidence in the plane of the mirror perpendicular to the plane of incidence keeping the incident ray fixed, then
(A) The reflected ray does not rotate
(B) The reflected ray rotates through an angle 
(C) The reflected ray rotates through an angle 2
(D) None of these

5. A plane mirror is approaching you at a speed of 10 cm/sec. You can see your image in it. At what speed will
your image approach you
(A) 10 cm/sec (B) 5 cm/sec (C) 20 cm/sec (D) 15 cm/sec

6. Focal length of a plane mirror is

(A) Zero (B) Infinite (C) Very less (D) Indefinite

7. It is desired to photograph the image of an object placed at a distance of 3 m from the plane mirror. The
camera which is at a distance of 4.5 m from the mirror should be focused for a distance of
(A) 3 m (B) 4.5 m (C) 6 m (D) 7.5 m

8. A man is 180 cm tall and his eyes are 10 cm below the top of his head. In order to see his entire height right
from toe to head, he uses a plane mirror kept at a distance of 1m from him. The minimum length of the plane
mirror required is
(A) 180 cm (B) 90 cm (C) 85 cm (D) 170 cm

9. A plane mirror makes an angle of 30 with horizontal. If a vertical ray strikes the mirror, find the angle between
mirror and reflected ray
(A) 30 (B) 45 (C) 60 (D) 90

10. A watch shows time as 3 : 25 when seen through a mirror, time appeared will be
(A) 8 : 35 (B) 9 : 35 (C) 7 : 35 (D) 8 : 25

11. If an observer is walking away from the plane mirror with 6 m/sec. Then the velocity of the image with respect
to observer will be
(A) 6 m/sec (B) –6 m/sec (C) 12 m/sec (D) 3 m/sec

12. A man runs towards a mirror at a speed 15 m/s. The speed of the image relative to the man is
(A) 15 ms–1 (B) 30 ms–1 (C) 35 ms–1 (D) 20 ms–1

13. The light reflected by a plane mirror may form a real image
(A) If the rays incident on the mirror are diverging
(B) If the rays incident on the mirror are converging
(C) If the object is placed very close to the mirror
(D) Under no circumstances
14. Two plane mirrors are inclined at an angle of 72. The number of images of a point object placed between
them will be
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5

15. To get three images of a single object, one should have two plane mirrors at an angle of
(A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 90 (D) 150

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LEVEL – II
1. By what angle should M2 be rotated, so that the light ray after reflection from both M2
the mirrors become horizontal. 25

40
M1
2. A man is sitting in room at 2m from a wall w wants to see the full height of wall w2 behind him of 4m height
and 6 m away from the facing wall w1. What is minimum vertical length of a plane mirror on the facing wall
required to fulfill the purpose.

3. Consider the point P as the origin and line OP as the x-axis in the situation Y
shown in the figure. Find the coordinates of the image of the point object O.
(Take OP = 20 cm) P

o 20 cm 30 X

4. In the adjacent figure M is a vertical plane mirror of length L. AB is a vertical line at

A O
a distance L from the mirror. A viewer with his eyes at distance L/2 from the mirror
is standing infront of the mirror. An object ‘O’ is brought to the point A and M
released to fall under gravity. If A and B are the two extreme point visible to the
viewer in the mirror then haw long will it take the object ‘O’ to reach the point B.
L
L D L
2 2
vertical plane B
mirror

5. A point object O is placed between two plane mirrors as shown in figure. If object M1 10mm M2
is moved toward M1 with speed u then what is the relative speed between first
images of M1 and M2. O

6. Find the total number of images if the two plane mirror are inclined at an angle of 60 with each other and
object is situated between the plane mirror at an angle of 30 from one of them?

7. Two plane mirrors are placed as shown in the figure.

(a) How many images will be formed.
(b) Find the position(s) of image(s).
(c) Will the ray passing through (1, 1.25) take part in image formation.

8. An object is moving with velocity v0 parallel to mirror M1. Find v0 M2

speed of the image formed by M1 w.r.t. the image formed by
M2. 
M1
9. A ray PO is incident on the mirror AC at an angle 30 as shown in the C
figure. Ray PO is reflected by mirror AB and AC. The deviation of ray PO O
after its final reflection from mirror AC is K . Find the value of K.
30
P
30

A B

10. In the adjecent figure AB is horizontal plane mirror, and BC is a vertical screen. C
S
AB 
A light source ‘S’ directly above the point A and a distance d , throws a d
2
pencil of light on the mirror and a bright spot is obtained on the screen. Now B
A
the source ‘S’ starts rotating with constant angular speed  as shown. Find the
speed of the spot on the screen when incident beam hits the mirror at the mid
point of AB.

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11. An object is moving with velocity ( 2iˆ  3jˆ) m/s and plane mirror is y
v0  2iˆ  3jˆ
moving with velocity 4î m/s as shown. Find velocity of image.

vm  4iˆ

12. Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other such that a ray of light incident on the first mirror and parallel to
the second is reflected from the second mirror parallel to the first mirror. Determine the angle between the
two mirrors.

13. In the figure, a man of height ‘H’ is standing in front of a plane mirror. If an instantaneous angular velocity ‘’
is given to the plane mirror, in the clockwise direction find the instantaneous angular velocity of the image of
the man.

14. An opaque object PQ of height h stands erect on a flat horizontal mirror. Sunrays fall on
the object at an angle of 300 with the horizontal. Find the length of the shadow on a Q
screen placed beyond the shadow perpendicular to the mirror. P

15. A person runs with a speed u towards a bicycle moving away from him with speed v. The person approaches
his image in the plane mirror fixed at the rear of the bicycle with a speed of x(u – v). Calculate the value of x.

16. A ray of light is incident on a plane mirror along a line represented by ˆi  ˆj  kˆ . The possible vector orientation
parallel to the plane of the mirror to get the light retraced is
(A) 2iˆ  4ˆj  2kˆ (B) ˆi  ˆj  kˆ
(C) 2iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ (D) ˆi  ˆj  kˆ

17. When light enters from air to water, then its

(A) frequency increases and speed decreases
(B) frequency is same but the wavelength is smaller in water than in air
(C) frequency is same but the wavelength in water is greater than in air
(D) frequency decreases and wavelength is smaller in water than in air

18. A light ray travels from point P to Q by getting reflected by a plane mirror. A P Q
crow travels from P, touches the mirror and flies to point Q. Show that the least
distance that the crow has to travel (dc) is related to the distance travelled by O O
the light ray (dl) as
(A) dc = dl (B) dc = dl/2
(C) dc = dl/2 (D) none of the above
Q

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GEOMETRICAL OPTICS - SHEET: 1(Lecture-1&2)
ANSWERS
LEVEL - I
1.  = 5000 Å
and Frequency,   6  1014 Hz.
i = 45.
2. (B) When converging beam incident on plane mirror, real image is formed as shown

3. (B) Incident ray and finally reflected ray are parallel to each other means d = 180°

From d = 360 - 2q Þ 180 = 360 - 2q Þ q = 90°

4. C
By keeping the incident ray is fixed, if plane mirror rotates through an angle  reflected ray rotates through an angle 2.

5. (C) Suppose at any instant, plane mirror lies at a distance x from object. Image will be formed behind the mirror at the
same distance x.

When the mirror shifts towards the object be distance 'y' the image shifts = x + y - (x - y) = 2y
So speed of image =  speed of mirror
y

O
(x – y) (x – y)
x x
(x + y)

6. B

7. (D) F0 using distance of image = 4.5 m + 3 m = 7.5 m

3m 3m
4.5m

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8. B According to the following ray diagram length of mirror = (10 + 170) = 90 cm
2

180 cm
9. (C)

10. ()
11. (C) Relative velocity of image w.r.t. object
= 6 - ( - 6) = 12 m / s

12. (B) Relative velocity of image w.r.t. man

= 15 - ( - 15) = 30 m / s

13. (B)

æ360 ö æ360 ö
14. (C) n=ç - 1÷ Þ n = ç - 1÷ = 4
è q ø è 72 ø

æ360 ö æ360 ö
15. (C) n=ç - 1÷ Þ 3 = ç - 1÷ Þ q = 90°
è q ø è q ø
LEVEL - II
1. 5 clock wise.
2. 1m
3. (10 cm, 10 3 cm)
x-coordinate of the point Q is Q

PQ cos120 = 20 cos120 =  10 cm
y- coordinate of the point Q is
PQ sin120 = 20 sin120 = 10 3 cm 30
120
O 30
P X

6L L
4.
g L

1 2 6L
3L  gt  t  L
2 g
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5. Zero

6. As shown in the figure the total number of images is five. I1

I2
30 Object
30
30 30
30 30
30
30
I5
I3

I4

7. (a) 1 ; (b) (4, 0) ; (c) No

8. 2v0 sin 

9. 1
From the diagram it is clear that the ray will retrace its path. C
O

30
30 P
30

A B
10. 4  d

11. ( 10iˆ  3jˆ)

12. Let  be the angle between the two mirrors OM1 and OM2. The M1 D
incident ray AB is parallel to mirror OM2 and strikes the mirror
OM1 at an angle of incidence equal to . It is reflected along B  E A
BC; the angle of reflection being . From figure, we have 
N1
M1BA = OBC = M1OM2 =    
Similarly, for reflection at mirror OM2, we have N2
M2CD = BCO = M2OM1 =    
M2
O C

o o
Now, in triangle OBC, 3 = 180 , therefore,  = 60 .

13. 2 clockwise

14. The formation of shadow on the mirror and on the screen is shown in figure in compliance with the principle of rectilinear
propagation of light and law of reflection. PS is the shadow on the mirror and P’Q’ is the inverted shadow of PQ on the
screen. Let  = angle of incidence. Then, PS = h tan  and QS = h sec . From the property of triangle.
P’Q’ = 2(h sec ) cos  = 2h.
15. 2
Velocity of approach of man towards the bicycle = (u – v)
Hence velocity of approach of image towards bicycle is 2(u – v).
16. A
17. B
18. A Q
P
POQ is the path travelled by the light ray. Let the crow flies in an arbitrary
path POQ. Extend PO to Q such that OQ = OQ
O O
Now, OQO   OQO
 OQ = OQ
In POQ, PO + OQ > PQ
PO + OQ > PO + OQ Q
i.e. (path travelled by the crow) > (path travelled by light). Thus, to travel the minimum distance the crow has to fly in the
path POQ, i.e. in the path of light.

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