Q.

A 20cm thick glass slab of refractive index 1.5 is kept in front of a plane mirror. Find the position of the image (relative to mirror) as seen by an observer through the glass slab when a point object is kept in air at a distance of 40cm from the mirror.

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a

100/3

b

80/3

c

20/3

d

40/3

answer is B.

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As thickness of glass slab is 20 cm and its μ=(3/2),  so shift produced by it will be x=d[11μ]=20[123]=203cm  (towards the mirror)
 

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The image of object in the mirror is  1003 cm from the mirror. The glass slab shift this image towards the observer by  203cm.
Therefore the position of the final image from the mirror w.r.t observer is 1003203=803 cm
 

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A 20cm thick glass slab of refractive index 1.5 is kept in front of a plane mirror. Find the position of the image (relative to mirror) as seen by an observer through the glass slab when a point object is kept in air at a distance of 40cm from the mirror.