LIGHT REFLECTION NUMERICALS – WORKSHEET -1

1. The incident ray makes an angle of 30° with the surface of a plane mirror. Find the
angle of reflection. (Ans: 60°)
2. A light ray strikes a flat, smooth, reflecting surface at an angle of 80° to the
normal. What is the angle that the reflected ray makes with the surface of the
mirror? (Ans: 10°)
3. Light from a laser strikes a plane mirror at an angle of 38° to the normal. If the
laser is moved so that the angle of incidence increases by 13°, what is the new
angle of reflection? (Ans: 51°)
4. A plane mirror is approaching you at a speed of 10 cm/sec. You can see your
image in it. At what speed will your image approach you? (Ans: 20 cm/sec)
5. Two plane mirrors are positioned at right angles to one another. A ray of
light strikes one mirror at an angle of 30° to the normal. It then reflects toward
the second mirror. What is the angle of reflection of the light ray off the second
mirror? (Ans: 60°)
6. An object is 36.0 cm in front of a concave mirror with a 16.0 cm focal length.
Determine the image position. (Ans: -28.8 cm)
7. A 3.0 cm tall object is 20.0 cm from a 16.0 cm radius concave mirror.
Determine the image position and image height. (Ans: -2.0 cm)
8. A concave mirror has a 7.0 cm focal length. A 2.4 cm tall object is 16.0 cm
from the mirror. Determine the image height. (Ans: -1.9 cm)
9. An object is near a concave mirror of 10.0 cm focal length. The image is 3.0
cm tall, inverted, and 16.0 cm from the mirror. What are the object position
and object height? (Ans: u = 26.7 cm, ho=5.0 cm)
10. An object of 4 cm height is placed at a distance of 18 cm from concave mirror
having focal length 12 m. Find the position, nature and height of the image.
(Ans: v= -36 cm, height of image = - 8 cm)
11. A dentist mirror (concave) has a radius of curvature of 3 cm. How far must it
be placed from a small dental cavity to give virtual image of cavity that is
magnified 5 times? (Ans: - 1.2 cm)
12. An object of 5 cm height is placed at a distance of 12 cm in front of a concave
mirror. It forms a real image 4 times larger than the object. Calculate the
distance of the image from the mirror. (Ans: - 48 cm, image is at a distance 48
cm from the mirror on the same side of the object.)
13. An object 4 cm. in size is placed at 25 cm. in front of concave mirror of focal
length 15 cm. At what distance from the mirror should a screen be placed in
order to obtain a sharp image? Find the nature and the size of the image. (Ans:
v=-37.5 cm, h’=-6 cm, inverted and enlarged )