Physics
For an incident ray directed towards center of curvature of a spherical mirror, the reflected ray:
- retraces it's path
- passes through the focus
- passes through the pole
- becomes parallel to the principal axis
Answer
retraces it's path
Reason — A line joining the centre of curvature to any point on the surface of mirror is normal to the mirror at that point, so a ray AD passing through the center of curvature C (or appearing to pass through through the centre of curvature C) is incident normally on the spherical mirror.
Since it's angle of incidence is zero, therefore the angle of reflection will also be zero and the ray AD gets reflected along it's own path DA as shown below.
Related Questions
The correct statement(s) is/are :
(i) The radius of a sphere of which the spherical mirror is a part is called the radius of curvature.
(ii) The geometric centre of the spherical surface of a mirror is called the centre of curvature.
(iii) Principal axis is the straight line joining the pole of the mirror to its aperture.
- (i)
- (ii)
- (iii)
- None of the above
The focus of a concave mirror is a point on the …………… through which the light rays incident …………… to the principal axis pass after reflection from the mirror.
- centre of curvature, perpendicular
- principal axis, parallel
- principal axis, perpendicular
- aperture, parallel
A ray either incident from the focus (or converging at the focus), after reflection from a spherical mirror :
- becomes perpendicular to the principal axis
- becomes parallel to the principal axis
- becomes normal to the focus
- passes through the centre of curvature
For a concave mirror, when the object is at infinity, the nature of the image formed at focus is
- virtual, inverted
- virtual, diminished to a point
- real, enlarged, inverted
- real, inverted, diminished to a point