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The document provides sample questions and answers related to ray optics concepts like refraction, lenses, prisms, and telescopes. There are multiple choice questions asking about topics like critical angle, lens combinations, and ray diagrams. Numerical problems involve calculating focal lengths, refractive indices, magnifications, and resolutions. The document contains questions testing basic concepts in ray optics as well as more complex problems involving optical instruments.

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Ray Optics Numericals

The document provides sample questions and answers related to ray optics concepts like refraction, lenses, prisms, and telescopes. There are multiple choice questions asking about topics like critical angle, lens combinations, and ray diagrams. Numerical problems involve calculating focal lengths, refractive indices, magnifications, and resolutions. The document contains questions testing basic concepts in ray optics as well as more complex problems involving optical instruments.

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XII Physics : 09 Ray Optics 2019

VSA (1 mark):

1. For the same value of angle of incidence, the angle of refraction in three media A, B and
C are 15o, 25o and 35o respectively. In which medium would the velocity of light be
minimum. Ans: A
2. Calculate the speed of light whose critical angle is 30o. Ans: c/2
3. Two thin lenses of power 6D and -2D are in contact. What is the focal length of the
combination? Ans: 25 cm
4. For a glass prism µ = √3 and the angle of minimum deviation is equal to the angle of the
prism. Find the angle of prism. Ans: 60o

SA (2 marks):

5. A ray of light incident on an equilateral glass prism of µ = √3 moves parallel to the base.
Find the angle of incidence for this ray. Ans: 60o
6. Trace the path of ray of light passing through a glass prism ABC as shown in figure. If
the refractive index of the prism is √3, find out the value of the angle of emergence from
the prism. (angle C = 60o).
A Ans: 60o

B 660 C

7. A beam of light converges at a point P. A concave lens of focal length 16 cm is placed in


the path of this beam which is 12 cm from P. draw a ray diagram and find the location of
the point at which the beam would now converge.
Ans: +48 cm from the lens
8. The radii of curvature of the faces of a double convex lens are 10 cm and 15 cm. If the
focal length of the lens is 12 cm, find the refractive index of the material of the lens.
Ans: 1.5
9. A biconvex lens has a focal length of 2/3 times the radius of curvature of either surface.
Calculate the refractive index of lens material. Ans: 1.75
10. Find the radius of curvature of the convex surface of a plano convex lens, whose focal
length is 0.3 m and the refractive index of the material of the lens 1.5. Ans: 0.15 m

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11. A ray of light passing through an equilateral triangular glass from air undergoes
minimum deviation when angle of incidence is 3/4th of the angle of prism. Calculate the
speed of light in the prism. Ans: 2.12 x 108 m/s
12. A concave lens has the same radii of curvature for both sides and has a refractive index
1.6 in air. In the second case, it is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.4. Calculate
the ratio of the focal lengths of the lens in the two cases. Ans: 4.2:1

SA (3 marks):

13. You are given three lenses L1, L2 and L3 each of focal length 10 cm and convex. An
object kept at 15 cm in front of L1 creates a final image at focus of L3. Find the
separations between L1, L2 and L3. Ans: d(L1-L2)=60cm.
14. Two convex lenses of focal length 20 cm and 1 cm constitute a telescope. The telescope
is focussed on a point which is 1 m away from the objective. Calculate the magnification
produced and the length of the tube, if the final image is formed at a distance of 25 cm
from the eyepiece. Ans: m = -6.5; L = 25.96 cm
15. The objective of an astronomical telescope has a diameter of 150 mm and focal length of
4 m. The eyepiece has a focal length of 25 mm. Calculate the magnifying and resolving
power of telescope. (λ = 6000 x 10-10 m of light)
Ans: m = 160; RP = 20.49 x 104
16. A convex lens made up of glass of refractive index 1.5 is dipped in i) a medium of RI
1.65; ii) in a medium of RI 1.33.
a. Will it behave as a converging or a diverging lens in the two cases?
b. How will its focal length change in the two media?
17. A compound microscope uses an objective lens of focal length 4 cm and an eyepiece lens
of focal length 10 cm. An object is placed at 6 cm from the objective lens. Calculate the
magnifying power of the compound microscope. Also calculate the length of the
microscope. Ans: m = -7; L = 5.14 cm

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