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A person lives in a high-rise building on the bank of a river 50 ~m wide. Across the river is a well lit tower of height 40 ~m. When the person, who…

JEE Main 2013 — Physics Optics

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A person lives in a high-rise building on the bank of a river 50 m50 \mathrm{~m}50 m wide. Across the river is a well lit tower of height 40 m40 \mathrm{~m}40 m. When the person, who is at a height of 10 m10 \mathrm{~m}10 m, looks through a polarizer at an appropriate angle at light of the tower reflecting from the river surface, he notes that intensity of light coming from distance X\mathrm{X}X from his building is the least and this corresponds to the light coming from light bulbs at height ' Y\mathrm{Y}Y ' on the tower. The values of X\mathrm{X}X and Y\mathrm{Y}Y are respectively close to (refractive index of water ≃43\simeq \frac{4}{3}≃34​ ) JEE Main 2013 Physics, Wave Optics — question figure

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Held on 9 Apr 2013 · Verified 6 Jul 2026.

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  1. A

    25 m,10 m25 \mathrm{~m}, 10 \mathrm{~m}25 m,10 m

  2. B

    13 m,27 m13 \mathrm{~m}, 27 \mathrm{~m}13 m,27 m

  3. C

    22 m,13 m22 \mathrm{~m}, 13 \mathrm{~m}22 m,13 m

  4. D

    17 m,20 m17 \mathrm{~m}, 20 \mathrm{~m}17 m,20 m

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