Ray Optics-Ws
Ray Optics-Ws
Class :XII
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SUB : PHYSICS TOPIC : RAY OPTICS
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1. A ray of light enters into the prism normally with the face 1 and comes out
normally with the face 3. The minimum refractive index of the prism is
1) cos ec 2) tan 3) sec *4) cos ec
2
2. An object 1 cm tall is placed in front of a mirror at a distance of 4 cm. In order
to produce an upright image of 3 cm height, one needs a
1) convex mirror of radius of curvature 12 cm
*2) concave mirror of radius of curvature 12 cm
3) concave mirror of radius of curvature 4 cm
4) plane mirror of height 12 cm
3. An object is placed at 20 cm from a convex mirror of focal length 10 cm. The
image formedmed by the mirror is
1) reall and at 20 cm from the m mirror
2) virtual and at 20 cm from the mirror
*3)
3) virtual and at (20/3) cm from the mirror
4) real and at (20/3) cm from the mirror
4. A ray of light is incident at an angle of 60 o on one face of a prism of angle 30o .
The emergent ray of light makes an angle of 30o with incident ray. The angle
made by the emergent ray with second face of prism will be :
1) 30o *2) 90o 3) 0 o 4) 45o
5. The focal lengths of the objective and eye eye-lens
lens of a microscope are 1 cm and 5
cm respectively. If the magnifying power for the relaxed eye is 45, then the
length of the tube is
1) 30 cm 2) 25 cm *3) 15 cm 4) 12 cm
6. The ray diagram could be correct
1) if1 = 2 = g 2) if 1>g>2
*3) if1 = g and 2>g 4) 1>g , g = 2
7. Two identical cars A and B are moving at 36 kmph
kmph.. A goes on a bridge, convex
upward and ‘B’ on concave upward. If the radius of curvature of bridge is 20m,
the ratio of normal forces exerted on the cars when they are at the middle of
bridges g 10ms 2
*1) 1 : 3 2) 1 : 2 3) 2 : 3 4) 1 : 5
8. A vessel of depth 2d cm is half filled with a liquid of refractive index 1 , another
half filled with 2 . The apparent depth of the vessel seen perpendicularly is
1 1 1 1 1
1) d 1 2 *2) d 3) 2d 4) 2d
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
9. A convex lens makes a real image 16 cm long on a screen. When the lens is
shifted to a new position without disturbing the object then again 4 cm tall real
image is obtained on screen. Then the length of object is
1
1) cm *2) 8 cm 3) 12 cm 4) 20 cm
4
10. A glass prism of refractive index 1.5 is immersed in water ( refractive index 4/3).
A light beam incident normally on the face AB is totally reflected to reach on the
face AC if
8 2 8 8
*1) sin 2) sin 3) sin 4) none of these
9 3 9 9
11. A ray of light passes from vacuum into a medium of refractive index n. If the
angle of incidence is twice the angle of refraction, then the angle of incidence is
1) cos1 n / 2 2) sin 1 n / 2 *3) 2 cos 1 n / 2 4) 2sin 1 n / 2
12. The given equi-convex
convex lens is broken into four parts and rearranged as shown.
If the initial focal length is f, then after rearrangement the equivalent focal
length is
22 3 3 1 1
1) *2) 3) 4)
3 1 1 22 3
14. Critical angle of light passing from glass to air is least for
1) red 2) green 3) yellow *4) violet
15. A plane mirror reflects a beam of light to form a real image. The incident beam
should be
1) parallel *2)
2) convergent 3) divergent 4) not possible
16. A spherical mirror forms an erect image three times the size of the object. If the
distance between the object and the image is 80 cm, the nature and the focal
length of the mirror are
*1) concave, 30 cm 2) convex, 30 cm
3) concave, 15 cm 4) convex, 15 cm
17. The refractive index of water is 4/3. The speed of light in water is
1) 1.50 x 108 m/s 2) 1.78 x 108 m/s
*3) 2.25 x 108 m/s 4) 2.67 x 108 m/s
18. If a lens of focal length f is divided into two equal parts and both pieces are put
in contact as shown in figure. The resultant focal length of combination are
*1) f 2) 2f 3) 3f 4) 4f
21. A convex lens is used to form a real image of the object shown in the following
figure : Then the real inverted image is as shown in the following figure :
1) 2) *3) 4)
22. If i j represents refractive index when a light ray goes from medium i into j, then
2 1 3 2 4 3 is equal to
1
1) 3 1 2) 3 2 *3) 4) 4 2
1 4
3 4
23. The refractive indices of glass and water are and respectively. The
2 3
refractive index of glass with respect to water is
8 9 5
1) 2 2) *3) 4)
9 8 3
24. If a ray of light takes t1 and t2 times in two media of absolute refractive indices
1 and 2 respectively to travel same distance, then
1) 1t1 2t2 *2) 1t2 2t1 3) t1 1 t2 2 4) t1 2 t2 1
25. Rays of light fall on a glass slab (> 1) as shown in the figure. If at A is
maximum and at B it is minimum, then what will happen to these rays?
10 10
3) 1014 Hz , 4000 Å 4) 1014 Hz ,6000 Å
3 3
37. A prism ABC of angle 30o has its face AC silvered. A ray of
light incident at an angle of 45o at the face AB retraces its
path after refraction at face AB and reflection at face AC.
The refractive index of the material of the prism is
3
1) 1.5 2)
2
4
*3) 2 4)
3
38. The position of final image formed by the given lens combination from the third
lens will be at a distance? If f1 = +10 cm, f2 = -10 cm, f3 = +30 cm.
1) 15 cm 2) infinity 3) 45 cm *4) 30 cm
39. A light ray falls on a rectangular class slab as shown. The
index of refraction of the glass, if total internal reflection is to
occur at the vertical face, is
*1) 3/ 2 2)
3 1
2
3)
2 1 4) 5 5// 2
2
40. Assertion (A) :The
The focal length of the mirror is f and distance of the object from
the focus is u. The magnification of the mirror is f/u.
Size of image
Reason (R) : Magnification
Size of object
1) Both A & R are correct and R is correct explanation of A.
2) Both A & R are correct but R is not correct explanation of A.
3) A is correct but R is incorrect.
*4)
4) A is incorrect but R is correct
41. A ball is dropped from a height of 20m above the surface of water in a lake. The
refractive index of water is 4/3. A fish inside the lake, in the line of fall of the
ball, is looking at the ball. At an instant, when the ball is 12.8m above the water
surface, the fish sees the speed of ball as (Take g = 10ms-2)
1) 9ms-1 2) 12 ms-1 *3) 16ms-1 4) 21.33ms-1
42. A point object O is placed in front of a glass rod having spherical end of radius
of curvature 30cm. The image would be formed at
*1) 30cm left 2) Infinity 3) 1cm to the right 4) 18cm to the left
43. The
he time taken by light to reach the earth from the Sun is 8 minutes 20 s. If the
whole universe and atmosphere is hypothetically filled up with a liquid so that
the time taken by the light to reach the earth from the sun is 12 minutes 30 s
then the refractive index of the liquid will be
1) 1 *2)
2) 1.5 3) 2 4) 2.5
44. Two similar plano-convex
convex lenses are combined together in three different ways
as shown in the adjoining figure. The ratio of the focal lengths in three cases
will be
1) 2 : 2 : 1 *2) 1 : 1 : 1 3) 1 : 2 : 2 4) 2 : 1 : 1
45. Final image of object forms on object. If focal length of lens is 30cm, then radius
of curvature of mirror is
*1) 30 cm 2) 60 cm
3) 15 cm 4) This situation is not possible
46. A ray of light from a denser medium strikes a rarer medium. The reflected and
refracted rays make an angle of 900 with each other. The angles of reflection and
refraction are r and r1. The critical angle would be
*1) sin 1 tan r 2) tan 1 sin r
3) sin 1 tan r1
4) tan 1 sin r1
47. Two identicals glass μ g 3/ 2 equiconvex lenses of focal length f each are kept
in contact. The space between the two lenses is filled with water μ W 4 / 3 . The
focal length of the combination is
1) f/3 2) f 3) 4f/3 *4) 3f/4
48. Match the following diagrams with the correct statement.
Column – I Column - II
(A) (I) m|<1|
*1) 30cm left 2) Infinity 3) 1cm to the right 4) 18cm to the left
52. A simple telescope, consisting of an objective of focal length 60cm and a single
eye lens of focal length 5cm is focused on a distant object is such a way that
parallel rays comes out from the eye lens. If the object subtends an angle 20 at
the objective, the angular width of the image
1) 100 *2) 240 3) 500 4) 1/ 60
53. The angle of prism is equal to 600 and the refractive index is 2 . The angle of
incidence for the condition of minimum deviation will be
*1) 450 2) 600 3) 300 4) 900
54. A ray of light passing through an equililateral prism made of a material of
refractive index 1.732 undergoes minimum deviation. The angle of incidence is
1) 30o *2) 60 o 3) 45o 4) 75o
55. When a drop of oil is spread on a water surface, it displays beautiful colours in
day light because of
1) Dispersion of light 2) Reflection of light
3) Polarization of light *4) Interference of light
56. A converging lens of focal length 60 cm is placed infront of and coaxially with a
convex mirror of focal length 10cm. Their separation is d. If a parallel beam of
light incident on lens returns as a parallel beam, then d is
1) 100 cm 2) 20 cm *3) 40 cm 4) 10 cm
57. A fish looking up through the water sees the outside would contained in a
4
circular horizon. If the refractive index of water is and the fish is 12 cm
3
below the surface, the radius of this circle in cm is
1) 36 5 2) 4 5 3) 36 7 *4) 36 / 7
58. An object is placed at a distance of 40 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal
length 20 cm. The image produced is
1) real, inverted and smaller in size *2) real, inverted and of same size
3) real and erect 4) virtual and inverted
59. The power of a biconvex lens is 10 dioptre and the radius of curvature of each
surface is
10 cm. Then the refractive index of the material of the lens is
3 4 9 5
*1) 2) 3) 4)
2 3 8 3
60. A light ray enter in a glass slab of R .I . 3 . The angle of incident is 60o . If ray
travel 5 cm inside the slab and emerge out of the slab. Find the lateral shift
between the incident ray and emergent ray :
5 3 7 5 5
1) cm 2) cm *3) cm 4) cm
2 2 2 2
61. A thin symmetrical double convex lens of refractive index 2=1.5 is placed
between a medium of refractive index 1=1.3 to the left and another medium of
refractive index 3=1.2 to the right. Then, the system behaves as
*1) a convex lens 2) a concave lens
3) a glass plate 4) a convex or concave lens
62. Two plane mirror of length 24 m each are kept at a distance of 8 cm parallel to
each other. A ray of light incident on one end of one mirror at angle of 53°.
Then, total number of reflections before it reaches the other end is
4
given, tan 53
o
3
*1) 225 2) 500 3) 100 4) 10
63. Figure shows a plane mirror onto which a light ray is incident. If the incidenting
light ray is turned by 100 and the mirror by 200 as shown, then the angle turned
by the reflected ray is
1) 28 *2) 30 3) 32 4) 34
66. The velocity of image w.r.t. ground in the below figure is
out grazing the vertical surface. The refractive index of the slab is
3 5 3 5
*1) 2) 3) 4)
2 2 2 2
70. A ray of light falls on a transparent sphere with centre at C as shown in figure.
The ray emerges from the sphere parallel to line AB, the refractive index of the
sphere is
3 1
1) 2 *2) 3 3) 4)
2 2
71. A denser medium of refractive index 1.5 has a concave surface with respect to
air of radius of curvature 12cm. An object is situated in the denser medium at a
distance of 9cm from the pole. Locate the image due to refraction in air
1) A real image at 8cm 2) A virtual image at 8cm
3) A real image at 4.8cm *4) A virtual image at 4.8cm
72. An object is placed first at infinity and then at 20cm from the object side focal
plane of a convex lens. The two images thus formed are 5cm apart. The focal
length of the lens is
1) 5cm *2) 10cm 3) 15cm 4) 20cm
73. The refractive index of a prism for amonochromatic light is 2 and its refracting
angle is 600. For minimum deviation the angle of incidence will be
1) 300 *2) 450 3) 600 4) 750
74. If iˆ denotes a unit vector along an incident ray r̂ a unit vector along the
refracted ray into a medium of refractive index ' ' and n̂ a unit vector normal to
the boundary of the media direted towards the incident medium, then the law of
refraction can be written as
1) iˆ.nˆ rˆ.nˆ 2) iˆ nˆ nˆ rˆ
*3) iˆ nˆ rˆ nˆ 4) iˆ nˆ rˆ nˆ
75. A plane wave front falls on a convex lens. The emergent wave front is
1) Plane 2) Cylindrical
3) Spherical diverging *4) Spherical converving
76. Two coherent waves are represented by y1 a1 cos t and y2 a2 sin t . The
resultant intensity due to interference will be
1) a12 a22 *2) a12 a22 3) a1 a2 4) a1 a2
77. The bending of light about corners of an obstacle is called
1) Dispersion 2) Refraction 3) Deviation *4) Diffraction
78. Assertion: If the whole apparatus of young’s experiment is immersed in liquid,
the fringe width will decrease.
Reason: The wavelength of light in water is more than that in air.
1) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of
Assertion.
2) Both Assertion and reason are true and reason is not the correct explanation
of Assertion.
*3) Assertion is true and reason is false.
4) Assertion is false and reason is true.
79. Match the following:
Column – I Column - II
(A) Silver lining of mountains (I) Polarization by refraction
(B) Rectilinear propagation light (II) Transverse nature of light
(C) Polarization (III) Diffraction
(D) Pile of plates (IV) Ray optics
.
1 1 1 1
*1)1.0 10 ms 2) 0.5 10 ms 3) 1.5 10 ms 4) 3.0 10 ms
8 8 8 8
92. The angle of minimum deviation measured with a prism is 30o and the angle of
prism is 60 o . The refractive index of prism material is
3 4
*1) 2 2) 2 3) 4)
2 3
93. A plane mirror reflects a pencil of light to form a real image. Then the pencil of
light incident on the mirror or is
1) Parallel *2) Convergent 3) Divergent 4) None of the above
94. Two mirrors are inclined at an angle of 50 . The number of images formed for an
0
1 1
1) 2 2) 3 *3) 4)
2 3
104. The refractive index of a certain glass is 1.5 for light whose wavelength in
vacuum is 6000 Å. The wavelength of this light when it passes through glass is
*1) 4000 Å 2) 6000 Å 3) 9000 Å 4) 15000 Å
105. The refractive indices of glass and water w.r.t. air
air are 3/2 and 4/3 respectively.
The refractive index of glass w.r.t. water will be
1) 8/9 *2)
2) 9/8 3) 7/6 4) None of these
106. A vessel of depth 2d cm is half filled with a liquid of refractive index 1 and the
upper half with a liquid of refractive index 2 . The apparent depth of the vessel
seen perpendicularly is
1 1 1 1 1
1) d 1 2 *2) d 3) 2d 4) 2d
1 2 1 2 1 2 12
107. Light waves of intensities I and 9I interfere to produce a fringe pattern on a
3
screen. The phase difference between the wave waves at a point P is and 2 at
2
other point Q. Then the ratio of intensities at P and Q is
1) 8 : 5 *2)
2) 5 : 8 3) 1 : 4 4) 9 : 1
108. A converging lens is used to form an image on a screen. When upper half of the
lens is covered by an opaque screen.
1) Half the image will disappear
2) Complete image will be formed of same intensity
3) Half image will be formed of same int
intensity
*4)
4) Complete image will be formed of decresed intensity
109. In YDSE if the width of the slits are gradually decreased, then
1) Bright fringe will become brighter and dark fringe become darker
2) Bright fringe become less bright and dark finge become less dark
3) Bright fringe become brighter and dark fringe become lighter
*4)
4) Bright fringe become less bright and dark fringe become darker
110. Two lenses L1 and L2 having focal length 10cm and 15 cm respectively. The
distance between L1& L2 is:
1) 10cm 2) 15 cm *3)
* 25 cm 4) 35 cm
111. Light travels in two media A and B with speeds 1.8 108 ms 1 and 2.4 108 ms 1
respectively. Then the critical angle between them is
2 3 2 3
1) sin 1 2) tan 1 3) tan 1 *4) sin 1
3 4 3 4
112. If the angle of incidence is twice the angle of refraction in a medium of refractive
index ' ' then the angle of incidence (in air) is
1) cos 1 2) sin 1 *3) 2 cos 1 4) sin 1
2 2 2
sin i
113. In the figure shown is equal to
sin r
22 3 3 1 1
1) *2) 3) 4)
3 1 1 22 3
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