TEST BASED ON PLANE MIRROR 8.

A thick plane mirror shows a number of images of

1. Two vertical plane mirrors are inclined at an angle the filament of an electric bulb. Of these, the
of 60 with each other. A ray of light travelling brightest image is the [
horizontally is reflected first from one mirror and (a) First (b) Second
then from the other. The resultant deviation is (c) Fourth (d) Last
(a) 60 (b) 120 9. A man is 180cm tall and his eyes are 10cm below
(c) 180 (d) 240 the top of his head. In order to see his entire height
2. A plane mirror reflects a pencil of light to form a right from toe to head, he uses a plane mirror kept
real image. Then the pencil of light incident on the at a distance of 1m from him. The minimum length
mirror is of the plane mirror required is
(a) Parallel (b) Convergent (a) 180cm (b) 90cm
(c) Divergent (d) None of the above (c) 85cm (d) 170cm
3. What should be the angle between two plane 10. A person is in a room whose ceiling and two
mirrors so that whatever be the angle of incidence, adjacent walls are mirrors. How many images are
the incident ray and the reflected ray from the two formed
mirrors be parallel to each other (a) 5 (b) 6
(a) 60 (b) 90
(c) 7 (d) 8
(c) 120 (d) 175
11. When a plane mirror is placed horizontally on a
4. A plane mirror reflecting a ray of incident light is
level ground at a distance of 60m from the foot of
rotated through an angle  about an axis through a tower, the top of the tower and its image in the
the point of incidence in the plane of the mirror mirror subtend an angle of 90 at the eye. The
perpendicular to the plane of incidence, then height of the tower will be
(a) The reflected ray does not rotate (a) 30m (b) 60m
(b) The reflected ray rotates through an angle  (c) 90m (d) 120m
(c) The reflected ray rotates through an angle 2 12. A ray of light incidents on a plane mirror at an
(d) The incident ray is fixed angle of 30. The deviation produced in the ray is
5. A plane mirror is approaching you at a speed of
(a) 30 (b) 60
10 cm / sec you can see your image in it. At what
(c) 90 (d) 120
speed will your image approach you
13. A ray of light is incidenting normally on a plane
(a) 10cm / sec (b) 5 cm / sec
mirror. The angle of reflection will be
(c) 20cm / sec (d) 15cm / sec
(a) 0  (b) 90
6. A light bulb is placed between two plane mirrors
inclined at an angle of 60. The number of images (c) Will not be reflected (d) None of the above
formed are 14. When light wave suffers reflection at the interface
(a) 6 (b) 2 from air to glass, the change in phase of the
(c) 5 (d) 4 reflected wave is equal to

7. It is desired to photograph the image of an object (a) 0 (b)
2
placed at a distance of 3m from the plane mirror.
The camera which is at a distance of 4.5m from the (c)  (d) 2
mirror should be focused for a distance of 15. A ray is reflected in turn by three plain mirrors
(a) 3m (b) 4.5m mutually at right angles to each other. The angle
(c) 6m (d) 7.5m between the incident and the reflected rays is
 (a) 90 (b) 60 24. An object is at a distance of 0.5 m in front of a
(c) 180 (d) None of these plane mirror. Distance between the object and
image is
16. Two plane mirrors are at right angles to each other.
(a) 0.5 m (b) 1 m
A man stands between them and combs his hair (c) 0.25 m (d) 1.5 m
with his right hand. In how many of the images will 25. A man runs towards a mirror at a speed 15 m/s
he be seen using his right hand The speed of the image relative to the man is
(a) None (b) 1 (a) 15 ms 1 (b) 30 ms 1
(c) 2 (d) 3 (c) 35 ms 1 (d) 20 ms 1
17. When a plane mirror is rotated through an angle  26. The light reflected by a plane mirror may form a
then the reflected ray turns through the angle 2 real image
then the size of the image (a) If the rays incident on the mirror are diverging
(a) Is doubled (b) Is halved (b) If the rays incident on the mirror are
(c) Remains the same (d) Becomes infinite converging
18. A plane mirror produces a magnification of (c) If the object is placed very close to the mirror
(a) 1 (b) 1 (d) Under no circumstances
(c) Zero (d) Between 0 and   27. Two plane mirrors are inclined at an angle of 72 0 .
19. A plane mirror makes an angle of 30 with The number of images of a point object placed
horizontal. If a vertical ray strikes the mirror, find between them will be
the angle between mirror and reflected ray
(a) 2 (b) 3
(a) 30 (b) 45
(c) 4 (d) 5
(c) 60 (d) 90
20. A watch shows time as 3 : 25 when seen through a 28. To get three images of a single object, one should
have two plane mirrors at an angle of
mirror, time appeared will be
(a) 30° (b) 60°
(a) 8 : 35 (b) 9 : 35
(c) 90° (d) 150°
(c) 7 : 35 (d) 8 : 25
29. A man of length h requires a mirror, to see his own
21. If an observer is walking away from the plane
complete image of length at least equal to [
mirror with 6m / sec. Then the velocity of the image
h h
with respect to observer will be (a) (b)
4 3
(a) 6m / sec (b)  6m / sec h
(c) (d) h
(c) 12m / sec (d) 3m / sec 2

22. A man runs towards mirror at a speed of 15 m / s. 30. Two plane mirrors are at 45 to each other. If an
What is the speed of his image object is placed between them, then the number of
(a) 7.5 m/s (b) 15 m/s images will be
(c) 30 m/s (d) 45 m/s (a) 5 (b) 9
23. A small object is placed 10 cm infront of a plane (c) 7 (d) 8
mirror. If you stand behind the object 30 cm from 31. A man having height 6 m. He observes image of 2
the mirror and look at its image, the distance m height erect, then mirror used is
focused for your eye will be
(a) Concave (b) Convex
(a) 60 cm (b) 20 cm
(c) Plane (d) None of these
(c) 40 cm (d) 80 cm
32. A light beam is being reflected by using two
mirrors, as in a periscope used in submarines. If
one of the mirrors rotates by an angle , the
reflected light will deviate from its original path by
the angle
(a) 2 (b) 0 o
(c)  (d) 4
33. Focal length of a plane mirror is
(a) Zero (b) Infinite
(c) Very less (d) Indefinite
34. A ray of light is incident at 50° on the middle of one
of the two mirrors arranged at an angle of 60°
between them. The ray then touches the second
mirror, get reflected back to the first mirror,
making an angle of incidence of
(a) 50° (b) 60°
(c) 70° (d) 80°