
What will be the deviation produced when a ray of light is incident on a plane mirror at an angle of incidence ?

Important Questions on Reflection of Light





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:

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


A long horizontal mirror is next to a vertical screen (see figure). Parallel light rays are falling on the mirror at an angle from the vertical. If a vertical object of height is kept on the mirror at a distance The length of the shadow of the object on the screen would be.

Back surface of a glass (refractive index and thickness ) is polished to work as a mirror as shown below. A laser beam falls on it and is partially reflected and refracted at the air-glass interface and fully reflected at the mirror surface, respectively. A pattern of discrete spots of light is observed on the screen.
The spacing between the spots on the screen will be


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




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


A monochromatic beam of light enters a square enclosure with mirrored interior surfaces at an angle of incidence (see the figure below). For some value(s) of , the beam is reflected by every mirrored wall (other than the one with opening) exactly once and exists the enclosure through the same hole. Which of the following statements about this beam is correct?

A ray of light is reflected by a plane mirror. and be the unit vectors along the incident ray, reflected ray and the normal to the reflecting surface respectively. Which of the following gives an expression for

