Home
Class 12
PHYSICS
A motor car is fitted with a convex driv...

A motor car is fitted with a convex driving mirror of focal length `20 cm`. A second motor car is `6 m` away from the driving mirror of the first car. Calculate (i) position of second car as seen in the first car mirror.
(ii) if the second car is overtaking the first car at a relative speed of `15 m//s`, how will its image be moving and in what direction ?

Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise TYPE A|15 Videos

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise Problems For Self Practice|109 Videos

  • RAY OPTICS

    SL ARORA|Exercise TYPE J|11 Videos

  • OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS

    SL ARORA|Exercise Problems for self practice|35 Videos

  • SOLIDS AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

    SL ARORA|Exercise PROBLEM_TYPE|9 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A motor car is fitted with a convex driving mirror of focal length 25 cm . Another motor car is 10 m away from the driving mirror of the first car. Calculate the position of second car seen in the driving mirror. If the second car is overtaking the first car with a relative speed of 20m//s , how fast will the image of the second car be moving ?

A car is fitted with a convex mirror of focal length 20cm .a second car 2m broad and 1.6m high is 6m away from the first car.The position of the second car as seen in the mirror of the first car is ?

A car is fitted with a convex side-view mirror of focal length 20 cm. A second car 2.8m behind the first car is overtaking the first car at a relative speed of 15 m/s . The speed of the image of the second car as seen in the mrror of the first one is:

The rear - view mirror of a car is

A car travels 60km in the first hour , 65km in the second hour , 70km in the third hour, then the average speed of the car is

A convex, rearview mirror of focal length 20cm, is fitted in a car. A second car 2 m broad and 1.6m high is 6m away from the first car and overtakes the first car at a relative speed of 15 ms^(-1) , then the speed of the first car is

SL ARORA-RAY OPTICS-Problems
  1. Screen S is illuminated by two point sources A and B. Another source C...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. A motor car is fitted with a convex driving mirror of focal length 20 ...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. Glycerine (refractive index 1.4) is poured into a large jar of radiys ...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. A point source of light S is placed at the bottom of a vessel containi...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. A ray of light travelling in glass (mug=3//2) is incident on a horizon...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. A rectangular glass block of thickness 10 cm and refractive index 1.5 ...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. A ray of light travelling in air is incident at grazing angle (incide...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. A right angled prism is to be made by selecting a proper material and ...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. A right angles prism (45^(@),90^(@), 45^(@)) of refractive index n ha...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. Light is incident at an angle alpha on one planar end of a transparent...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. A rod of glass ( mu = 1.5) and of square cross section is bent into t...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. A slab of a material of refractive index 2 shown in fig. has a curved ...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. A parallel beam of light travelling in water (refractive index =4//3)...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. A glass sphere of radius 5 cm has a small bubble at a distance 2 cm fr...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. A plano-convex lens has thickness 4cm. When places on a horizontal tab...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. Two point light sources are 24 cm apart. Where should a convex lens of...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. A convex lens and a convex mirror of radius of curvature 20 cm are pla...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. Consider a coaxial system of two thin convex lenses of focal length f ...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. A thin plano-convex lens of focal length f is split into two halves. O...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. Two thin similar convex glass are joined together front to front, with...

    Text Solution

    |