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Real Depth And Apparent Depth MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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A metal plate is lying at the bottom of a tank full of a transparent liquid. Height of tank is 100 cm but the plated appears to be at 45 cm above bottom. The refractive index of liquid is:

A fish in an aquarium approaches the left wall at a rate of 2.5 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s} observes a fly approaching it at 8 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}.  If the refractive index of water is (4 / 3), find the actual velocity of the fly.

 

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A layer of oil 3 \mathrm{~cm} thick is floating on a layer of coloured water 5 \mathrm{~cm} thick. The refractive index of coloured water is 5/3 and the apparent depth of the two liquids appears to be 36 / 7 \mathrm{~cm}. Find the refractive index of oil.

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Real depth and Apparent depth

Real depth and Apparent depth

Case 1.  When object is in denser medium and observer is in rarer medium.

If object and observer are situated in different medium then due to refraction, object appears to be displaced from it's real position.

Here O is the real position of the object and O' is the apparent position of the object as seen by the observer. 'h' is the real depth of the object from the surface of the water and  h' is the apparent depth of the object.  \mu_2 is the density of the medium where the object is placed.  \mu_1 is the density of the rarer medium.

       \frac{ \mu_2}{\mu _1}=\frac{\text { Real depth }}{\text { Apparent depth }}=\frac{h}{h^{\prime}}.   

Therefore   Real depth > Apparent depth.

 

Apparent shift:

d=h-h^{\prime}=\left(1-\frac{\mu _1}{\mu_2}\right) h

Case 2.  Object is in rarer medium and observer is in denser medium.

   \frac{ \mu_2}{\mu _1}=\frac{\text { Apparent depth }}{\text { Real depth }}=\frac{h'}{h}.   

Therefore apparent depth > real depth.

Apparent shift:

d=\left(\frac{\mu _1}{\mu_2}-1\right) h

 

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