Question

Read the following statements and select the correct option.
Statement 1: It is not possible to photograph a virtual image.
Statement 2: An image is said to be virtual if the reflected or refracted rays are diverging in nature.
A. Both statement 1 and statement 2 are true and statement 2 is the correct explanation of statement 1.
B. Both statement 1 and statement 2 are true but statement 2 is not the correct explanation of statement 1.
C. Statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false.
D. Statement 1 is false but statement 2 is true.

Answer 1

Hint:A camera uses a lens that converges the light rays which enter in it. This way the photograph of the image or the object from which the light ray are coming is formed. These light rays can form a real image or from a virtual image as well.

Complete answer:
Let us first discuss statement 1.In statement 1, it is given that it is not possible to photograph a virtual image. However, a camera can capture a virtual image. Actually, a camera can capture both the type of images, real as well as virtual.

A camera uses a lens that converges the light rays which enter in it. This way the photograph of the image or the object from which the light ray are coming is formed. These light rays can form a real image or from a virtual image as well. Therefore, it does not matter whether the image is real or virtual, the image will be photographed.

A simple example of this is that when we click our photo standing in front of a mirror, we obtain a photograph of the virtual image that is formed in the mirror.Hence, it is possible to capture a virtual image, which means that the given statement is false.

Now, let us discuss statement 2. It says that an image is said to be virtual if the reflected or refracted or refracted rays are diverging in nature. And this statement is true.
Therefore, statement 1 is false but statement 2 is true.

Hence, the correct option is D.

Note: A real image is formed when the light rays from an object converge at a point after refraction through a lens or reflection at a mirror. In other words, the image formed is real when it is formed on the other side of the lens or on the same side of a mirror.