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At what distance should object kept to obtain image distance of thrice the focal length of diverging mirror?

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Important Questions on Reflection and Spherical Mirror

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An object is placed at the focus of a convex mirror. The image will be at
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A spherical mirror is obtained as shown in the figure from a hollow glass sphere, if an object is positioned in front of the mirror, what will be the nature and magnification of the image of the object? (Figure down as schematic and not to scale)

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For a real object, which of the following can produce a real image?
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A concave mirror gives an image three times as large as its object placed at a distance of 20 cm from it. For the image to be real, the focal length should be
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An object is gradually moving away from the focal point of a concave mirror along the axis of the mirror. The graphical representation of the magnitude of linear magnification m versus distance of the object from the mirror x is correctly given by
(Graphs are drawn schematically and are not to scale)
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An object is placed at a distance of 20 cm from the pole of a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm. The distance of the image formed is
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An object, is placed 60 cm in front of a convex mirror of focal length 30 cm. A plane mirror is now placed facing the object in between the object and the convex mirror such that it covers lower half of the convex mirror. What should be the distance of the plane mirror from the object, so that there will be no parallax between the images formed by the two mirrors?
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An object is placed 12 cm in front of a convex mirror of focal length 18 cm. Determine the position and nature of the image.
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A wire is bent in the shape of a right angled triangle and is placed in front of a concave mirror of focal length f , as shown in the figure. Which of the figures shown in the four options qualitatively represent(s) the shape of the image of the bent wire? (These figures are not to scale.)
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A point object is moving uniformly towards the pole of a concave mirror of focal length 25 cm along its axis as shown below. The speed of the object is 1 ms-1. At t=0, the distance of the object from the mirror is 50 cm. The average velocity of the image formed by the mirror between time t=0 and t=0.25 s is:

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The focal length f is related to the radius of curvature r of the spherical convex mirror by:
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To find the focal length of a convex mirror, a student records the following data:
Object pin Convex Lens Convex Mirror Image Pin
22.2 cm 32.2 cm 45.8 cm 71.2 cm
The focal length of the convex lens is f1 and that of mirror is f2 . Then taking index correction to be negligibly small, f1 and f2 are close to:
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A concave mirror produces an image of a long vertical pin, placed 40 cm from the mirror, at the position of the object. Find the focal length of the mirror (in cm). 
 
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A candle placed 25 cm from a lens forms an image on the screen placed 75 cm on the other side of the lens. The focal length and type of the lens should be
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A concave mirror of focal length 15 cm, forms an image having twice the linear dimensions of the object. The position of the object, when the image is virtual, will be
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A concave mirror has radius of curvature of 40 cm. It is at the bottom of a glass that has water filled up to 5 cm (see figure). If a small particle is floating on the surface of water, its image as seen, from directly above the glass, is at a distance d from the surface of water. The value of d is close to: (Refractive index of water =1.33)
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A particle is oscillating on the x-axis with an amplitude 2 cm about the point x0=10 cm with a frequency. A concave mirror of focal length 5 cm is placed at the origin (see figure).

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Identify the correct statements?
(i) The image executes periodic motion.
(ii) The image executes non-periodic motion.
(iii) The turning points of the image are asymmetric with respect to the image of the point at X=10 cm.
(iv) The distance between the turning points of the oscillation of the image is 10021 cm.

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A ray of light passing through the _____ (focus/centre of curvature) retraces its path.
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Only paraxial rays are considered for the formation of image in spherical mirrors because-