GEOMETRICAL OPTICS :REFLECTION FROM PLANE SURFACE

1. A ray of light falls on a plane mirror. When the mirror is turned, about an
axis which is at right angle to the plane of the mirror through 20º the angle
between the incident ray and new reflected ray is 45º. The angle between
the incident ray and original reflected ray was therefore:
(A) 65º (B) 25º or 65º (C) 25º (D) 45º

2. In the figure shown, the maximum number of

reflections will be:

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 1

3. A man ‘A’ stands at the position shown in the 0.5m 0.5m

figure and a second man ‘B’ approaches the mirror

0.5m
along the line perpendicular to it which passes
through its center. At what distance from the mirror
will ‘B’ be at the moment when ‘A’ and ‘B’ first see
A
each other in the mirror _____. B

4. An object placed in front of a plane mirror is displaced by 0.4 m

along a straight line at an angle of 300 to the mirror plane. The change in
the distance between the object and its image is _____

5. A ray of light is incident at 30° from horizontal on a plane mirror

placed horizontally. If the mirror is rotated through 10° so that the normal
to its surface moving closer to the incident ray. What is the angle that the
reflected ray would make with the horizontal?

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6. How many capital letters of English alphabet show lateral inversion
in a plane mirror
7. A person AB of height 170 cm is standing in front
of a plane mirror. His eyes are at height 164 cm. At
what distance from P should a hole be made in the
mirror so that he cannot see the top of his head.

(A) 167 cm (B) 161 cm (C) 163 cm (D) none of these

8. Two plane mirrors are joined together as shown in figure. Two-

point objects O 1 and O 2 are placed symmetrically such that
AO 1 = AO 2 . The image of the two objects is common if:

(A) θ = 60° (B) θ = 90° (C) θ = 30° (D) θ =

45°

9. An object moves in front of a fixed plane mirror. The velocity

of the image of the object is
(A) Equal in the magnitude and in the direction to that of the
object.
(B) Equal in the magnitude and opposite in direction to that of
the object.
(C) Equal in the magnitude and the direction will be either
same or opposite to that of the object.
(D) Equal in magnitude and makes any angle with that of the
object depending on direction of motion of the object.

10. A point object is 10 cm away from a plane mirror while the eye of an
observer (pupil diameter 5.0 mm) is 20 cm away. Assuming both the
eye and point to be on the same line perpendicular to the mirror, the
area of the mirror used in observing the reflection of the point is_____.

11. A point source S is centered in front of a 70 cm wide plane mirror. A

man starts walking from the source along a line parallel to the mirror.
Maximum distance that can be walked by man without losing sight of
the image of the source is _____.

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12. Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other at 300. A ray is incident
on M1 at angle of incidence 40º. Find deviation produced in it by three
successive reflections due to mirrors.

13. The mirror of length L moves horizontally as

shown in the figure with a velocity v. The mirror
is illuminated by a point source of light ‘P’ placed
on the ground. The rate at which the length of
the light spot on the ground increases is:

(A) v (B) zero (C) 2v (D)

3v

14. In the figure shown. A particle ‘P’ moves with

velocity 10 m/s towards the intersection point
‘O’ of the plane mirror kept at right angle to
each other. I1 and I2 are the images formed
due to direct reflection from m1 and m2
respectively. In the position shown, the
relative speed of I1 w.r.t to I2 will be:

(A) 20 m/s (B) 12 m/s (C) m/s (D) 16 m/s

15. A man is sitting in a room at 2 m from a wall W1 wants to see the full
height of the wall W2 behind him 4 m high and 6 m away from the
facing wall W1. What is the minimum vertical length of mirror on the
facing wall required for the purpose?

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16. A plane mirror is placed with its plane at an angle y
30° with the y-axis. Plane of the mirror is
perpendicular to the xy-plane and the length of
the mirror is 3 m. An insect moves along x-axis

3m
starting from a distant point, with speed 2 cm/s. 30°
The duration of the time for which the insect can v x
see its own image in the mirror is :

(A) 300 s (B) 200 s (C) 150 s (D) 100 s

17. A Plane mirror revolves as shown at constant

angular velocity making 2 rps about its normal. With
what velocity will the light spot move along a
spherical screen of radius of 10 m if the mirror is at
the centre of curvature of the screen and the light is
incident from a fixed direction.

18. Two plane mirrors are inclined at 70º. A ray incident on one
mirror at angle q after reflection falls on the second mirror and
is reflected from there parallel to the first mirror. q is:

(A) 50º (B) 45º (C) 30º (D)

55º

19. A person is standing in a room of width 400 cm. A plane square

mirror of length 8 cm is fixed on a wall in front of the person.
The person looks into the mirror from distance 100 cm. How
much width (height) of the wall behind him will he be able to
see:
(A) 30 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 50 cm (D) none of these

20. Two plane mirrors are kept such that angle between their
reflecting surfaces is 40º. A point object is kept symmetrically
with respect to the mirrors. The total number of images formed
by one mirror is:
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 4 (D) 5

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21. A source of light lies on the angle bisector of two plane mirror inclined
at angle θ. Find the value(s) of θ so that the light reflected from one
mirror does not reach the other mirror.

22. Two vertical plane mirrors face each other 8 m apart. An object is set
2 m from one of the mirrors. An observer in the middle of the two
mirrors looks into the other mirror and sees two distinct images of the
object. How far are those images from the observer?

23. A boy of height 1.5 m with his eye level at 1.4 m stands before
a plane mirror of length 0.75 m fixed on the wall. The height of
the lower edge of the mirror above the floor is 0.8 m. Then
(A) the boy will see his full image (B) the boy cannot
see his hair(C) the boy cannot see his feet (D)
the boy cannot see neither his hair nor his feet.

24. The figure shows two parallel plane mirrors placed 10 cm apart. An
object O is placed 7 cm from mirror M1. Then the distance of final
image formed from mirror M1 is:

(A) 7 cm (B) 13 cm (C) 14 cm (D) infinite

25. A person wants to see AB part of his image (see figure). His eye level
is at 1.8 m above ground. If he uses minimum size of mirror required
for this, find the height of lowest point of mirror above the ground.

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26. Find the coordinates of the image formed that of
an object placed at origin, which the eye will
observe in mirror M2.

ANSWER KEYS
1. D 2. B 3. 0.5 m 4. 0.4 m 5. 50°

6. 11 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. Π /144 cm2

11. 70 cm 12. 160°CW, 2000 ACW 13. B 14. A 15. 1 m
16. A 17. zero 18. A 19. B 20. C 21. θ≥1200
22. 10 m, 14 m 23. C 24. A 25 h=1.4m 26. (-d,d)

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