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# Practice for u, a help for me 2

Some problems from geometric optics

Q1) Two mirrors are inclined at an angle $$\alpha$$.Light ray is inclined parallel to one og the mirrors.The ray will start retracing its path after third reflection if $$\alpha=$$ .The figure is above

Q2) A point object is kept in front of a plane mirror. The plane mirror is doing SHM of amplitude $$2~ cm$$.The plane mirror moves along the $$x-axis$$ and $$x-axis$$ is normal to the mirror.The amplitude of the mirror is such that the object is always in front of mirror.The amplitude of SHM of the image is

Q3) A person's eye is at height of $$1.5~m$$. He stands in front of a $$0.3~m$$ long plane mirror which is $$0.8~m$$ above the ground. the length of the image he sees of himself is

Q4) A person is standing in a room of width $$200~cm$$. A plane mirror of vertical length $$10~cm$$ is fixed on a wall in front og the person. The person looks into the mirror from distance $$50~cm$$.How much width of the wall behind him will he able to see (assume that he uses the full mirror).

Q5) An unnumbered wall clock shows time $$04:25:37$$, where $$1st$$ terms represent hours,$$2nd$$ represent minutes and $$3rd$$ represents seconds. What time will its image in a plane mirror show..

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2 years, 8 months ago

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For problem 1 and 2 check the first image, I'll explain problem 3(answer for 1 is 30 degrees)

At first and a ray from A to top end of mirror after reflection it will hit C(C will be at distance .8m from A), Now similarly send a ray to bottom end, after reflection it will hit E(E is at a distance 1.4m from A) and he can see himself from C to E which equals 0.6m.

Similarly in problem 4 send ray to ends of mirror and apply simple geometr(our answer = 2x + 10 = 50)

For problem 5 answer is equivalent when you put mirror on axis containing numbers 6 and 12.

Pro tip: In mostly all plane mirror problems you just need to send rays at extremities of mirror and apply simple geometry.

- 2 years, 8 months ago

In the 1st ques. Ans is 30degree &in 4th 50cm

- 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Comment deleted Mar 25, 2015

Hi

Did you have doubts in these questions or did you want to test us ? I am just curious !

- 2 years, 8 months ago

He would have posted it as a question to test us

- 2 years, 8 months ago

I see , but these questions were a bit easy .

I wanted to ask you this , what does your profile pic depict ? I can only guess that it's a fabric of some sort , which has been hand stitched, as evident from the fact that you have used it a a profile pic , by you (perhaps) ,and the lines aren't quite straight so I'm guessing you are inexperienced at it .

Please tell me I am wrong !

Btw I did it just for fun :)

- 2 years, 8 months ago

That is a fabric rather a sofa cover which I had uploaded initially. But then I didn't change it later. I agree that its absolutely meaningless.

- 2 years, 8 months ago

Aww! So I made a wrong deduction! :(

Here I thought that you had posted a piece of your work . That's why I don't make these guesses online .

- 2 years, 8 months ago

1) 30 2) 4 cm 3) 0.6 m 4) 50 cm 5) 7:34:23

- 2 years, 8 months ago

1. 30 degrees.

- 2 years, 8 months ago

1) 30 degrees and 5) 7:34:23.

- 2 years, 8 months ago

You are correct I did a silly mistake in both. I realized later

- 2 years, 8 months ago

can u explain me the 5) one

- 2 years, 8 months ago

Just draw the clock and reflect . Or you could subtract 12 hours from the given time(its effectively the same thing)

- 2 years, 8 months ago

then how is 25 replaced by 34 , why isnt it 35

- 2 years, 8 months ago

Another simple way which prevents confusion is that you subtract the given time from $$11: 59 : 60$$ component wise. So here $$11:59:60 - 04:25:37 = 07:34:23$$ which is the required answer.

- 2 years, 8 months ago

Yeah, this is indeed the best way out .

- 2 years, 8 months ago

Because the seconds add up to give an extra minute. 37 + 23 is the extra minute. You could have used a similar reasoning that 4 + 7 is not 12 but we actually have got an extra hour by adding 25 and 35 mins. So sudeep has suggested a fast way of subtracting 12 hours

- 2 years, 8 months ago

@Deepanshu Gupta @Rohit Shah @Azhaghu Roopesh M @Raghav Vaidyanathan ,plz post a solution for the above problems

- 2 years, 8 months ago