RAY OPTICS REVISION WORK SHEET

1. A person standing before a concave mirror cannot see his image, unless he
is beyond the centre of curvature. Why?

2. You read a newspaper, because of the light it reflects. Then why do you not
see even a faint image of yourself in the newspaper?

3. A substance has critical angle of 450 for yellow light, then what is its
refractive index

4. A converging and diverging lens of equal focal lengths are placed coaxially
in contact. Find the focal length and power of the combination.

5. The refractive index of a material of a convex lens is n 1 . It is immersed in a

medium of refractive index n 2 . A parallel beam of light is incident on the
lens. Trace the path of the emergent rays when n2¿ n 1

6. Show the variation of u and v in case of a convex mirror

7. Two lenses having focal length f1 and f2 are placed coaxially at a distance x
from each other. What is the focal length of the combination10. Two lenses
having focal length f1 and f2 are placed coaxially at a distance x from each
other. What is the focal length of the combination

8. What are optical fibres? Give their one use

9. How do the focal lengths of a lens change with increase in the wavelength
of the light?

10.Show with a ray diagram, how an image is produced in a total reflecting

prism?
11.The radii of the curvature of the two spherical surfaces which is a lens of
required focal length are not same. It forms image of an object. The
surfaces of the lens facing the object and the image are inter-changed. Will
the position of the image change

12.A thin converging lens has focal length (f) when illuminated by violet light.
State with reason how the focal length of the lens will change if violet light
is replaced by red light.

13.Thin prism of angle 60 gives a deviation of 30 . What is the refractive index

of material of the prism?

14.Although the surfaces of a goggle lens are curved it does not have any
power. Why?

15.A ray of light is incident normally on one face of the prism of apex angle 30 0
and refractive index √ 2 . Find the angle of deviation for the ray of light.

16.Birds flying high in the air appear to be higher than in reality. Explain why?

17.What is the focal length of a convex lens of focal length 30cm in contact
with a concave lens of focal length 20cm ? Is the system a converging or a
diverging lens? Ignore thickness of the lenses.

18.The image of a small electric bulb fixed on the wall of a room is to be

obtained on the opposite wall 3m away by means of a large convex lens.
What is the maximum possible focal length of the lens required for the
purpose?

19.A screen is placed 90cm from an object. The image of the object on the
screen is formed by a convex lens at two different locations separated by
20cm . Determine the focal length of the lens.
20.A person looking at a person wearing a shirt with a pattern comprising
vertical and horizontal lines is able to see the vertical lines more distinctly
than the horizontal ones. What is this defect due to? How is such a defect
of vision corrected?

21.A small telescope has an objective lens of focal length 140cm and an
eyepiece of focal length 5.0cm . What is the magnifying power of the
telescope for viewing distant objects when
a) the telescope is in normal adjustment (i.e., when the final image is at
infinity)?
b)the final image is formed at the least distance of distinct vision 25cm?

22.Light incident normally on a plane mirror attached to a galvanometer coil

retraces backwards as shown in figure below. A current in the coil produces
a deflection of 3.50 in the mirror. What is the displacement of the reflected
spot of light on a screen placed 1.5 m away?

23.Find the radius of curvature of the convex surface of a plane convex lens,
whose focal length is 0.3 m and the refractive index of the material of the
lens is 1.5.

24.Show that the limiting value of the angle of prism is twice its critical angle.
Hence define critical angle.

25.Draw a labelled diagram of telescope when the image is formed at the least
distance of distinct vision? Hence derive the expression for its magnifying
power.

26.Drive the expression for the angle of deviation for a ray of light passing
through an equilateral prism of refracting angle A.
27. Draw a ray diagram to illustrate image formation by a Newtonian type
reflecting telescope. Hence state two advantages of it over refracting type
telescopes.
28.The magnifying power of an astronomical telescope in the normal
adjustment position is 100 . The distance between the objective and the
eye piece is 101 cm . Calculate the focal length of the objective and the eye
piece

29.A convex lens made up of refractive index n1 is kept in a medium of

refractive index n2 . Parallel rays of light are incident on the lens. Complete
the path of rays of light emerging from the convex lens if a) n2¿ n 1 b)
n1¿ n 2 c) n1=n2

30.A convex lens has a focal length 0.2 m and made of glass μ = 1.50 is
immersed in water μ = 1.33 Find the change in focal length of the lens.

31.A reflecting type telescope has a concave reflector of radius of curvature

120 cm . Calculate the focal length of eye piece to achieve a magnification
of 20 .

32.Define total internal reflection of light. Hence write two advantages of total
reflecting prisms over a plane mirror.

33.An equiconvex lens of radius of curvature R is cut into two equal parts by a
vertical plane, so it becomes a plano-convex lens. If f is the focal length of
equiconvex lens, then what will be focal length of the planoconvex lens?

34.A converging lens of focal length 6.25 cm is used as a magnifying glass if

near point of the observer is 25 cm from the eye and the lens is held close
to the eye. Calculate
a) distance of object from the lens.
b)angular magnification
c) angular magnification when final image is formed at infinity
35.Prism formula

36.Lens combination

37.An object of size 3.0 cm is placed 14 cm in front of a concave lens of focal

length 21 cm . Describe the image produced by the lens. What happens if
the object is moved further away from the lens?

38.A beam of light converges at a point P. Now a lens is placed in the path of
the convergent beam 12 cm from P. At what point does the beam converge
if the lens is
a) a convex lens of focal length 20 cm
b)a concave lens of focal length 16 cm.

39.. Double-convex lenses are to be manufactured from a glass of refractive

index 1.55, with both faces of the same radius of curvature. What is the
radius of curvature required if the focal length is to be 20cm ?

40.A small telescope has an objective lens of focal length 144 cm and an
eyepiece of focal length 6.0 cm . What is the magnifying power of the
telescope? What is the separation between the objective and the eyepiece?

41.A giant refracting telescope at an observatory has an objective lens of focal

length 15 m. If an eyepiece of focal length 1.0 cm is used, what is the
angular magnification of the telescope?

42.Obtain an expression When refraction occurs of a convex spherical

refracting surface and the ray travels from rarer to denser medium.

43.Draw a ray diagram to show the formation of image of same size as that of
object in case of converging lens hence derive lens equation?
44.A small candle, 2.5 cm in size is placed at 27 cm in front of a concave mirror
of radius of curvature 36cm . At what distance from the mirror should a
screen be placed in order to obtain a sharp image? Describe the nature and
size of the image. If the candle is moved closer to the mirror, how would
the screen have to be moved?

45.A 4.5 cm needle is placed 12cm away from a convex mirror of focal length
15cm . Give the location of the image and the magnification. Describe what
happens as the needle is moved farther from the mirror

46.A tank is filled with water to a height of 12.5 cm . The apparent depth of a
needle lying at the bottom of the tank is measured by a microscope to be
9.4cm . What is the refractive index of water? If water is replaced by a
liquid of refractive index 1.63 up to the same height, by what distance
would the microscope have to be moved to focus on the needle again?

47.A small bulb is placed at the bottom of a tank containing water to a depth
of 80 cm . What is the area of the surface of water through which light from
the bulb can emerge out? Refractive index of water is 1.33. (Consider the
bulb to be a point source.

48.A person with a normal near point ( 25 cm ) using a compound microscope

with objective of focal length 8.0 mm and an eyepiece of focal length 2.5
cm can bring an object placed at 9.0 mm from the objective in sharp focus.
What is the separation between the two lenses? Calculate the magnifying
power of the microscope.

49.Answer the following questions:

a) You have learnt that plane and convex mirrors produce virtual images of
objects. Can they produce real images under some circumstances? Explain
.b) A Virtual image, we always say, cannot be caught on a screen. Yet when
we ‘see' a virtual image, we are obviously bringing it on to the ‘screen' (i.e.,
the retina) of our eye. Is there a contradiction?
 C) A diver underwater, looks obliquely at a fisherman standing on the bank
of a lake. Would the fisherman look taller or shorter to the diver than what
he actually is?
50.At what angle should a ray of light be incident on the face of a prism of
refracting angle 600 so that it just suffers total internal reflection at the
other face? The refractive index of the material of the prism is 1.524.