
What is lateral inversion?
Important Questions on Light

Letters and are written on a cardboard as shown in the figure below.
The cardboard is kept at a suitable distance behind a transparent empty glass of cylindrical shape. If the glass is now filled with water, one sees an inverted image of the pattern on the cardboard when looking through the glass. Ignoring magnification effects, the image would appear as





The image of an object due to reflection from the surface of a lake is elongated due to the ripples on the water surface caused by a light breeze. This is because the ripples act as tilted mirrors as shown below. Consider the case, where and the observer are at the same height above the surface of the lake. If the maximum angle that the ripples make with the horizontal is , then the angular extent of the image will be


A mirror is placed at an angled of with respect to axis (see figure). A light ray travelling in the negative direction strikes the mirror. The direction of the reflected ray is given by the vector



A point source of light, is placed at a distance in front of the center of plane mirror of width which is hanging vertically on a wall. A man walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror, at a distance as shown below. The distance over which the man can see the image of the light source in the mirror is:




A light ray is incident, at an incident angle , on the system of two plane mirrors and having an inclination angle between them (as shown in figure). After reflecting from mirror it gets reflected back by the mirror with an angle of reflection . The total deviation of the ray will be _____ degree.

The figure shows two plane mirrors inclined at . A ray is incident on one of the mirrors at an arbitrary angle . It gets reflected from this mirror and then from the other mirror.
The angle between the incident ray and the emergent ray is




