In an experiment to determine the focal length $(f)$ of a concave mirror by the $u-v$ method,a student places the object pin $A$ on the principal axis at a distance $x$ from the pole $P$. The student looks at the pin and its inverted image from a distance keeping his/her eye in line with $PA$. When the student shifts his/her eye towards left,the image appears to the right of the object pin. Then,

Suppose that the lower half of the concave mirror's reflecting surface in the figure is covered with an opaque (non-reflective) material. What effect will this have on the image of an object placed in front of the mirror?

$A$ student performed the experiment of determination of focal length of a concave mirror by $u-v$ method using an optical bench of length $1.5 \ m$. The focal length of the mirror used is $24 \ cm$. The maximum error in the location of the image can be $0.2 \ cm$. The $5$ sets of $(u, v)$ values recorded by the student (in $cm$) are: $(42, 56), (48, 48), (60, 40), (66, 33), (78, 39)$. The data set$(s)$ that cannot come from the experiment and is (are) incorrectly recorded,is (are):
$(A) (42, 56)$
$(B) (48, 48)$
$(C) (66, 33)$
$(D) (78, 39)$

The direction of a ray of light incident on a concave mirror is shown by $PQ$, where $PQ$ is parallel to the principal axis. The direction in which the ray would travel after reflection is shown by four rays marked as $A$, $B$, $C$ and $D$. Which of the four rays correctly shows the direction of the reflected ray?

The cross-section of a reflecting surface is represented by the equation $x^{2}+y^{2}=R^{2}$ as shown in the figure. $A$ ray travelling in the positive $x$ direction is directed toward the positive $y$ direction after reflection from the surface at point $M$. The coordinate of the point $M$ on the reflecting surface is

An object and a concave mirror of focal length $f=10 \text{ cm}$ both move along the principal axis of the mirror with constant speeds. The object moves with speed $V_0=15 \text{ cm s}^{-1}$ towards the mirror with respect to a laboratory frame. The distance between the object and the mirror at a given moment is denoted by $u$. When $u=30 \text{ cm}$,the speed of the mirror $V_m$ is such that the image is instantaneously at rest with respect to the laboratory frame,and the object forms a real image. The magnitude of $V_m$ is . . . . . $\text{cm s}^{-1}$.