SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Tutorial 7 – Week 12
Optics
1. Suppose that you want to take a photograph of yourself as you look at your image in a flat
mirror 2.5 m away. For what distance should the camera lens be focused?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟓 𝐦)
2. Two mirrors meet at a 135°. If light rays strike one mirror at 40° as shown, at what angle ϕ do
they leave the second mirror?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟓 𝐦)
3. A person whose eyes are 1.68 m above the floor stands 2.2 m in front of a vertical plane mirror
whose bottom edge is 43 cm above the floor. What is the horizontal distance x to the base of
the wall supporting the mirror of the nearest point on the floor that can be seen reflected in the
mirror?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟕𝟐 𝐜𝐦)
4. A solar cooker, really a concave mirror pointed at the sun, focuses the sun’s rays 18 cm in
front of the mirror. What is the radius of the spherical surface from which the mirror was
made?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟑𝟔 𝐦)
5. If you look at yourself in a shiny Christmas tree ball with a diameter of 9 cm when your face
is 30 cm away from it, where is your image? Is it real or virtual? It is upright or inverted?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: −𝟐. 𝟎𝟗 𝐜𝐦 (𝟐. 𝟎𝟗 𝐜𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞))
6. A mirror at an amusement park shows an upright image of any person who stands 1.4 m in
front of it. If the image is three times the person’s height, what is the radius of curvature?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒. 𝟐 𝐦)
7. The image of a distant tree is virtual and very small when viewed in a curved mirror. The
image appears to be 18 cm behind the mirror. What kind of mirror is it, and what is its radius
of curvature?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: −𝟑𝟐 𝐜𝐦, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐱)
8. The magnification of a convex mirror is + 0.65× for objects 2.2 m from the mirror. What is
the focal length of this mirror?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: −𝟒. 𝟏𝐦)
9. The speed of light in a certain substance is 89% of its value in water. What is the index of
refraction of this substance?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟏. 𝟒𝟗)
10. A diver shines a flashlight upwards from beneath the water at a 42.5° angle to the vertical. At
what angle does the light leave the water?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟔𝟒°)
11. A light beam coming from an underwater spotlight exits the water at an angle of 66° to
vertical. At what angle of incidence does it hit the air-water interference from below the
surface?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒𝟎. 𝟔°)
12. Rays of the sun are seen to make a 31° angle to the vertical beneath the water. At what angle
above the horizon is sun?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟒𝟔. 𝟖°)
13.
a) How far from a 50 mm focal-length lens must an object be placed if its image is to be
magnified 2× and be real?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟕𝟓 𝐦𝐦)
b) What if the image is to be virtual and magnified 2×?
(𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝟐𝟓 𝐦𝐦)
14. Locate the image using ray diagrams.
15. Locate the image using ray diagrams.
16. Locate the image using ray diagrams