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NEET UG 2017 · Physics · Question 42

NEET 2017 Physics, question 42

Question 42 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Physics question from Ray Optics and Optical Instruments. Its idea, Rotation of a Plane Mirror, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q42 · Physics

A beam of light from a source L is incident normally on a plane mirror fixed at a certain distance xx from the source. The beam is reflected back as a spot on a scale placed just above the source L. When the mirror is rotated through a small angle θ\theta, the spot of the light is found to move through a distance yy on the scale. The angle θ\theta is given by :

  1. 1y2x\frac{y}{2x}Official answer
  2. 2yx\frac{y}{x}
  3. 3x2y\frac{x}{2y}
  4. 4xy\frac{x}{y}

Official answer: option 1 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

The only question on Rotation of a Plane Mirror

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Rotation of a Plane Mirror: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments in ten years of NEET

26 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.5 a paper. Prisms, Dispersion and Optical Instruments alone had 8.

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments: questions per paper

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