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Apparent Distance in Two Media (Bird-Fish Problem)

JEE Main asked Apparent Distance in Two Media (Bird-Fish Problem) once in the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, on 13 Apr 2023, Shift 1. It belongs to Refraction and Snell's Law, in Ray Optics and Optical Instruments (Physics).

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
1
in 1 shift
Years
1 of 8
First asked
2023
the only year
Pattern
Occasional
asked once so far

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2023. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

00.050.10’170’200’210’220.07’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 1 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20231 of 12
  • 20220 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: multi-step.

  • Actual velocity from apparent velocity in refraction

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 0Hard 1

1 of the 1 question had a numerical answer.

Every question

The question

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 13 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q52A fish rising vertically upward with a uniform velocity of 8 ms−18\ \mathrm{ms^{-1}}, observes that a bird is diving vertically downward…HardNumerical value

Shift: 13 Apr 2023, Shift 1.

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Refraction and Snell's Law has 18 ideas JEE Main has asked; 8 of them came up in more than one question. The 12 most asked are below.

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