Ray Optics

Edit:- Man is standing to the right of the pole.

@ Nihal I think man is standing to the left of pole

answer 10m and 16m

My question not yet solved [2]

One more question,

A pole of height 4m is kept in front of a vertical plane mirror of length 2m. The lower end of the mirror is at height of 6m from the ground. The horizontal distance between the mirror and the pole is 2 m. Upto what minimum and maximum height a man can see the image of top of the pole at a distance of 4m standing on the same horizontal line which is passing through the pole and the horizontal point below the mirror?

ya but how????

A long room is there, a person standing exactly in the middle of the room, he has to view the image of the rear wall on the mirror placed on the front wall, if the height of rear wall is h m, what should be the length of the mirror?

Thanks Aashish and Harrys.[1]

@ Sahil, I have not done coordinate geometry (found it boring,so will do it later)[3]

1) which type of mirror u r asking about?

2) use any basic book.....all the sign conventions are written ......

1) v₀ = (vu)²u₀ where v₀ = speed of image and u₀= speed of object
v and u are dist of image and object respectively.
it clears that as dis t of object decreases speed of image increases

velocity of image in concave & convex mirror is given by

-[v/u]² multiplied by velocity of object.

Now in case of convex mirror,
v is approx. constant as for any decrease in u .
So, speed of the image on an object moving with constant speed increases as it moves nearer and nearer to a stationary mirror.

arey one is concave and other is convex!!!

if object, image and focus are on that side of mirror from which rays are coming take -ve otherwise +ve

i.e take that -ve which is on that side of mirror from which rays are comingand take that +ve whichis at other side

eg.

in that case take focus -ve becoz ray is coming from left of mirror and focus is also on left of mirror

convex mirror used in the rear view o the cars and other vehicles.

@Nihal, sign conventions pata hai, but while doing sums I don't know when to take u , v and f positive or negative. If you have NCERT, then see solved example 9.3 (page no. 315) and solved example 9.4(pge no. 316), in one they have taken f -ve and in the other one +ve, wohi confusion hai. I am stupid, I might be making some mistake so please try to make me understand.

1) Plane mirror mein toh it remains constant (thogh twice the speed pf object)...