Optics Question 592
Question: A glass lens is placed in a medium in which it is found to behave like a glass plate. Refractive index of the medium will be
[CPMT 1981, 84, 85]
Options:
A) Greater than the refractive index of glass
B) Smaller than the refractive index of glass
C) Equal to refractive index of glass
D) No case will be possible from above
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
$ \frac{f _{l}}{f _{a}}=\frac{{( _{a}}{\mu _{g}}-1)}{{( _{l}}{\mu _{g}}-1)} $
Therefore $ f _{l}=\infty $ if $ _{l}{\mu _{g}}=1 $
Therefore $ _{a}{\mu _{l}}{= _{a}}{\mu _{g}} $ .