Practice Assignment

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

SECTION - A
Straight Objective Type
This section contains multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D) for its answer, out
of which ONLY ONE is correct.
1. Parallel rays of light fall on a hemisphere of refractive index 2 = 1.5 from a medium of index 1 = 1.8. O is the
centre of hemisphere, then

2
O

(A) rays converge at point O

(B) rays converge at point below O
(C) rays diverge from a virtual point above point of incidence
(D) rays diverge from a virtual point below O
2. A ray of light is incident at the origin at an angle 60° with Y-axis as shown in figure. The refractive index is a
2
function of y according to the relation   . What is the value of H, shown in figure?
1  y2

2 2
(A) 1 (B)
3 3

(C)  3 1  (D) None

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3. A glass hemi-sphere of radius R and refractive index  = 1.5 is silvered at curved surface as shown in the figure.
A ray of light is incident normally on flat surface as shown in the figure.

Value of x for which ray will become vertical after reflection from silvered surface is

R R
(A) (B)
2 2

R R
(C) (D)
3 3
4. Position of object O and screen is fixed and lens is moved. At two positions of lens we get clear image on
the screen. First position is at 30 cm from object and second position is at 50 cm from object. Find focal
length of lens (in cm)

O
(fixed)
fixed
screen

25 75
(A) (B)
4 4
45 65
(C) (D)
4 4
5. A cylinder is filled with a liquid of refractive index . The radius of the cylinder is decreasing at a constant
rate K. The volume of the liquid inside the container remains constant at V. The observer and the object O
are in a state of rest and at a distance L from each other. The apparent speed of the object as seen by the
observer, (when radius of cylinder is r)
Observer

rr

   1 2KV 1    2KV
(A)
 r 
3 (B)
 Lr 2 
1    2K
(C) (D) None of these


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6. A glass prism of refracting angle A = 60° gives minimum angle of deviation  = 30° with the maximum error
of 1° when a beam of parallel light passed through the prism from air during an experiment. Find the
permissible error in percent in the measurement of refractive index  of the material of the prism
(A) 5/18 (B) 5/3
(C) 2/3 (D) 4/7

5
7. In a biprism experiment, calculate the intensity of light on the screen at a point away from the central
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image where  is the fringe width. Then intensity of central fringe is I0

3I0 I
(A) (B) 0
4 2

I 5I0
(C) 0 (D)
3 6

8. A convex lens of focal length f is cut along two mutually perpendicular planes to divide the lens into 4 identical
parts. Material of thickness t is lost in cutting operation from every cut surface . All the four pieces are then
pasted along the cut planes to make a lens. A point object is placed on the axis of new lens at a distance
1.5 f. Number of images formed will be
(A) 1 (B) 2
(C) 3 (D) 4
9. A ray of light travelling in a medium of refractive index 2, is incident onto the flat surface of a slab, the angle
of incidence is 37°. The refractive index of the material of the slab varies with depth (x) from the top surface,
(x) = a – bx, where a = 2, b = 1m –1 and x is in ‘m’. The maximum depth reached by the ray is

37° =2

x
(x)

(A) 8/5 m (B) 6/5 m

(C) 3/5 m (D) 4/5 m
10. Incident parallel rays make an angle 5° with the axis of a diverging lens of focal length 20 cm. Then image
will be (tan 5° = 0.0875)

5°
Optical axis

(A) Image will be virtual and in focal plane at a distance of 1.75 cm from the optical axis
(B) Image will be real and in focal plane at a distance of 1.75 cm from the optical axis
(C) Image will be real but not in focal plane
(D) Image will be virtual but not in focal plane

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11. A object is moving parallel to principal axis of a concave mirror of focal length 100 cm. Distance between object
and principal axis is 1 cm. The tangent of angle between velocity of image and principal axis is nearly
(A) 0.01 (B) 0.02
(C) 0.03 (D) 0.04
12. Figure shows two spherical surfaces of radii R and 2R separating three transparent media of refractive index
 = 4,  = 2 and  = 1. A ray of light travelling in medium  = 1 is incident on outer sphere tangentially. The
net deviation suffered by light ray will be

(A) 0° (B) 90°

(C) 240° (D) 280°
13. A point source of light, S is placed at the bottom of different layers as shown in the figure. The refractive index
of bottom most layer is 0. The refractive index of any other upper layer is

0
  n   0  , where n = 1, 2, 3, ........
4n  18
A ray of light with an angle i = 30° with vertical starts from the source S. The total internal reflection takes
place at the upper surface of a layer having n is equal to
(A) 3 (B) 5
(C) 4 (D) 6
14. The image of a point source, kept at origin O, forms at point A due to transparent sphere of radius 10 cm as
shown in the figure. Here OX is the optical axis of the sphere. Now, the sphere is cut into two equal parts,
along a plane perpendicular to the horizontal axis OX and the plane surface of the left half (PRCS) is silvered.
The right half (QSCR) is removed. Now the co-ordinate of image of point source O formed by remaining silvered
hemisphere will be

(A) (10 cm, 0) (B) (20 cm, 0)

(C) (30 cm, 0) (D) (40 cm, 0)

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15. Two identical rectangular glass-slabs of different materials whose height is 1m has a thin cylindrical wire.
Observer is situated at O in air as shown in the figure. If the end points of image of the wire AP is AP and
PB is PB. If we join A to P and P to B, it will form a parallelogram. The area of parallelogram will be

P B

A P

(A) 2 cm2 (B) 1 cm2

(C) 2 mm2 (D) 1 mm2

16. A light ray incident along vector 2iˆ  4ˆj  5kˆ strikes on the x-z plane from medium I of refractive index 3
and enters into medium II of refractive index 2. The value of 2 for which the value of angle of refraction
becomes 90°, is

4 3 3 3
(A) (B)
5 5
2 3 3
(C) (D)
5 5
17. A ray of light strikes a plane mirror at an angle of incidence 45° as shown in the figure. After reflection, the
ray passes through a prism of refractive index 1.5, whose apex angle is 4°. The angle through which the mirror
should be rotated if the total deviation of the ray is to be 90° is

45°

2° 90°
88°

4°

(A) 1° clockwise (B) 1° anticlockwise

(C) 2° clockwise (D) 2° anticlockwise
18. An insect of negligible mass is sitting on a block of mass M, tied with a spring of force constant K. The block
performs vertical simple harmonic motion with amplitude A in front of a plane mirror placed as shown. The
maximum speed of insect relative to its image will be

K
(A) A
M 45°

A K
/

(B)
//
//

2 M
//
//
//
//

K M
//

(C) A 2
//
//

M
//
//
//

M
(D) A
K

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19. The x-z plane separates two media A and B of refractive indices 1  1.5 and 2  2. A ray of light travels from
 
A to B. Its direction in the two media are given by unit vectors u1  aiˆ  bjˆ and u2  ciˆ  djˆ . Then

a 4 a 3
(A)  (B) 
c 3 c 4

b 4 b 3
(C)  (D) d  4
d 3

20. An object is moving vertically upwards with speed ‘v’ and the plane mirror is moving vertically downwards with
the same speed ‘v’ in water as shown in the figure. The speed of the final image of the object is [Given  =
4
for water]
3
O

 4
water    3 
 

3v v
(A) (B)
2 2

5v
(C) (D) v
2

21. An astronomical telescope has an objective of focal length 200 cm and eye piece of focal length 4 cm. The
telescope is focused to see an object 10 km from the objective. The final image is formed at infinity. The length
of the tube and angular magnification produced by it

(A) 204 cm, –50 (B) 200 cm, –50

(C) 204 cm, –100 (D) 200 cm, –100

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22. Two parallel rays are incident on the prism as shown in the figure. If refractive index of the prism is , the
3
3
angle between the emerging rays is (given sin 25° = )
5 2

(A) 180° (B) 120°

(C) 135° (D) 40°

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23. A convex lens forms inverted image of a real object on a fixed screen. The size of image is 9 cm. When lens is
displaced 40 cm along principle axis it again forms a real image of size 4 cm on the screen. Focal length of the
lens is :

(A) 48 cm (B) 100 cm

(C) 30 cm (D) 10 cm
24. Two rays are incident on a spherical concave mirror of radius R = 5 cm and rays are parallel to a line AB
which passes through the centre C. The rays are at perpendicular distances 3 cm and 4 cm from AB
respectively as shown. Find the distance between the points at which these rays intersect the line AB after
reflection

3cm
A B
4cm C

25 24
(A) cm (B) cm
24 25

1
(C) Zero (D) cm
3

25. A circular disc of diameter d rests horizontally inside a metallic hemispherical bowl of radius a. The edge A
of the disc is just visible to an eye looking over the edge. The bowl is now filled with a liquid of refractive index
d
  3 . Now, the whole of the disc is just visible to the eye in the same position, if is equal to
a
C

(A) 1 (B) 2

1
(C) (D) None of these
2

 4 
26. x-coordinate of a plane mirror having its plane perpendicular to x axis is given by x1 = 10 – 2 sin  t   / 3 .
 3 
 4 
Also, x-coordinate of a particle moving along x-axis in front of mirror is given by x 2  4 sin  t  . Minimum time
 3 
after which velocity of the image becomes zero is (consider all physical quantities expressed in S.I. system).
(A) 2 s (B) 0.5 s
(C) 1 s (D) Indeterminate
27. Maximum deviation occurs in a homogeneous prism of refracting angle A1 and having critical angle of its
material as A2, when the angle of incidence is

1  sin  A1  A 2   1  sin A 2 
(A) sin   (B) sin  
 sin A1   sin A1 

1  sin A1   sin  A1  A 2  
(C) sin   (D) sin1  
 sin A 2   sin A 2 

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28. The refractive index in space changes with y, whose function is given as


 1 if y0

  y   ky if 0  y  2y 0
2

 
 if 2y 0  y  4y 0
 y 2
where k and  are positive constant (with proper dimensions). A light ray is incident at point A as shown in
figure. When the ray reaches to point B, it becomes parallel to xz-plane. Choose the correct statement
(A)  is independent of k (B)  is independent of 
(C)  is independent of both k and  (D)  is dependent of both k and 
29. A point object is released at t = 0 from a point A (0, 24 m) as shown in the figure. The plane mirror is fixed
at angle 45° from vertical. Distance between the object and image will be 4 2 m at (use g = 10 ms–2)
y
A

24m
45° g
O x

(A) t = 3s (B) t = 3s

(C) t = 2s (D) t = 2 6 s
30. Monochromatic light rays parallel to x-axis strike a convex lens AB. If the lens oscillates such that AB tilts
upto a small angle  (in radian) on either side of y-axis, then find the distance between the extreme positions
of oscillating image (f = focal length of the lens)

(A) 2f(sec –1) (B) f sec2

(C) f(sec – 1) (D) the image will not move
31. A light ray is incident on a plane mirror M. The mirror is rotated in direction as shown in figure at frequency
(9/) revolution/sec. The light reflected by the mirror is received on the wall W at a distance of 10 m from point
of incidence. Speed of the spot where the reflected ray strikes on wall when angle of incidence is 37°

37° W

10m
(A) 10 m/sec (B) 1000 m/sec
(C) 360 m/sec (D) 500 m/sec

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32. A compound microscope consist of an objective lens of focal length 2.0 cm, and an eye piece of focal length
6.25 cm, separated by a distance of 15 cm. How far from the objective should an object be placed in order
to obtain the final image at least distance of distinct vision (25 cm) ?
(A) 1.5 cm (B) 2.5 cm
(C) 3.0 cm (D) 3.5 cm
33. A light ray parallel to x-axis is incident on a parabolic concave mirror in XY plane. The focus of this parabola
is at (1,0). The unit vector along the reflected ray will be

(A) j (B) –j

i  4j
(C) (D) i
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34. An object O is located 40 cm from the first of two thin converging lenses (each of focal length 20 cm), as
 7x 
shown in the figure below. If speed of the right lens is 7 cm/s rightwards, speed of final image is   cm/s
 4 
at the instant shown. Find the value of x

20cm

v=7cm/s
O
40cm

f1=20cm f2=20cm

(A) 1.5 (B) 2.5

(C) 3.5 (D) 3
35. An object is placed 1 cm above the optical axis of a convex lens of focal length 40 cm. The object distance
is 60 cm. If the object now starts moving perpendicularly away from the optical axis with a speed = 10 cm/
s, the speed of the image is
(A) 5 cm/s (B) 10 cm/s
(C) 20 cm/s (D) 40 cm/s
36. A capillary tube is made of glass of refractive index n. The outer radius of the tube is R. The tube is filled with a
liquid of refractive index n < n. What should be the minimum internal radius of the tube so that any ray that hits
the tube perpendicular to the length of the tube but not neccessarily perpendicular to the surface would enter the
liquid ?

R R
(A) (B)
n n

Rn Rn
(C) (D)
n n

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37. A ray of light, travelling parallel to diameter of a sphere enters the sphere through a hole at point A as shown in the
figure. The inner surface of the sphere is made perfectly reflecting. Find the number of reflections suffered by the
ray before coming out of the sphere.

A
9°

(A) 180 (B) 20

(C) 179 (D) 19

38. A converging lens of focal length 20 cm and diameter 5 mm is cut along the line AB. The part of the lens shown
shaded in the diagram is now used to form an image of a point P placed 30 cm away from it on the line XY which
is perpendicular to the plane of the lens. The image of P will be formed

2mm 2mm
A B
5 mm

x y
P
30mm

(A) 0.5 mm above XY (B) 1 mm below XY

(C) on XY (D) 1.5 mm below XY

39. There is a equilateral prism of refractive index 3 on which a light ray is incident normally on one face as shown in
the figure. Find the length of the path travelled by the light ray inside the prism.

L
(A) 3 (B) 3L
2
(C) 3L/2 (D) L

40. The figure shows an equiconvex lens (of refractive index 1.50) in contact with a liquid layer on top of a plane mirror.
A small needle PQ with its tip on the principal axis is moved along the axis until its inverted image is found at the
position of the needle. The distance of the needle from the lens is measured to be 45.0 cm. The liquid is removed
and the experiment is repeated. The new distance is measured to be 30.0cm. The refractive index of the liquid is

P P Q
Q

45cm

(A) 5/4 (B) 9/8

(C) 4/3 (D) 6/5

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SECTION - B
Multiple Correct Answer Type
This section contains multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D) for its answer, out
of which ONE OR MORE is/are correct.

 
41. An object O is kept at 3 2 L, 2 L . Two plane mirrors M1 and M2 each of length 4L are kept as shown in the
figure. n are the number of images of O, formed due to the combination of mirrors

(A) n is independent of d
(B) n can not be greater than 7 for any value of d

(C) n = 7 for all d  4 2L

(D) n = 2 for d  4 2L
42. One fourth part of an equiconvex lens of focal length 100 cm is removed as shown in the figure. An object of the
height 1cm is placed in front of the lens. It is observed that all the images are of equal height. Then

400
(A) Object is at a distance of cm from the lens
3
(B) The magnitude of magnification produced by upper and lower part is equal
(C) The number of images formed is two
(D) The product of magnification of both the lenses is negative
43. Consider a hemisphere of radius R with centre of curvature at origin O, as shown. Refractive index of material
2R
at any point in the hemisphere varies as   where x is x-coordinate of that point. A ray travelling in
2R  x
air in xy-plane is grazingly incident at O, as shown

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(A) Trajectory followed by ray as it travels inside the hemisphere is circular
(B) y-coordinate of the point of hemisphere where the ray comes out of the hemisphere lies between 0.5 R
and 0.75R
(C) Deviation suffered by the ray just before it comes out of the hemispherical surface lies between 0°
and 30°
(D) Deviation suffered by the ray just before it comes out of the hemispherical surface lies between 30°
and 45°
44. A bird B in air is diving vertically downward over a tank with speed 5 cm/s while base of tank is silvered. A
fish in the tank is rising upward along the same line with speed 2 cm/s. Water level is falling at rate of 2 cm/
s. Take water = 4/3
B

(A) Speed of fish as seen by bird directly is 6 cm/s

(B) Speed of fish as seen by bird directly is 3 cm/s
(C) Speed of image of fish as seen by bird after reflection from mirror is 3 cm/s
(D) Speed of image of fish as seen by bird after reflection from mirror is 6 cm/s
45. An equilateral prism PQR is placed in air with its base QR lying horizontally in yz plane as shown. A ray
moving along 3x  z  10 is incident at a point A on face PQ of prism
x

P
A

z
Q R
2
(A) Refractive index of prism’s material for which the ray emerges grazing out of face PR is
3
(B) Refractive index of prism’s material for which the ray emerges grazing by out of face PR is 3
(C) If refractive index of prism’s material is 2, ray emerges out of the prism parallel to x-axis
(D) If refractive index of prism’s material is 1.6, ray emerges out of the prism parallel to z-axis
46. A ray of light is incident nearly grazingly on face AB of a right angled prism as shown. It emerges out of face
AC, as shown, e = Angle of emergence. Refractive indices of different media have been shown in the diagram.
Choose the correct alternatives

1
2

(A) 12  sin2 e  22

(B) 22  sin2 e  12
(C) 12  cos2 e   22

(D) If the ray just fails to emerge out of the face AC of the prism, for 2 = 3 , angle of refraction at face AB
2
is sin–1
3

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47. If final image of a point object O formed after two refractions through the lens and one reflection from the mirror is
3
at the same point O, then d is (Given : R1 = 10 cm, R2 = 20 cm, R = 30 cm,  = for lens)
2

d
80m

R1 R2 R

(A) 100 cm (B) 110 cm

(C) 90 cm (D) 80 cm

SECTION - C
Linked Comprehension Type
This section contains paragraph. Based upon this paragraph, some multiple choice questions have to be answered.
Each question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D) for its answer, out of which ONLY ONE OR MORE is/are correct.
Paragraph for Question Nos. 48 to 50
A cylindrical tube filled with water (w = 4/3) is closed at its both ends by two silvered plano-convex lenses as shown in
the figure. Refractive index of lenses L1 and L2 are 2.0 and 1.5 while their radii of curvature are 5 cm and 9 cm
respectively. A point object is placed some where at a point O on the axis of cylindrical tube. It is found that the object
and image coincides each other.

48. The position of object w.r.t. lens L1 is

(A) 8 cm (B) 10 cm
(C) 12 cm (D) 14 cm
49. The position of object w.r.t. lens L2 is
(A) 8 cm (B) 10 cm
(C) 12 cm (D) 14 cm
50. The length of the cylindrical tube is
(A) 16 cm (B) 18 cm
(C) 20 cm (D) 22 cm
Paragraph for Question Nos 51 and 52
A long rectangular slab of transparent medium of thickness d is placed on table with length parallel to x-axis
and width parallel to the y-axis. A ray of light travelling is along y-axis at origin. The refractive index  of the
x/d
medium varies as   1  e . The refractive index of air is 1
y
path of ray
A

d
medium
x
O

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51. Determine the x-coordinate of the point A, where the ray intersect the upper surface of the slab air boundary
(A) d(ln 2) (B) 2d (ln 2)

2  ln2 
(C) (D) None of these
2

52. Write down the refractive index of the medium at A

(A) 6 (B) 5

(C) 7 (D) 8
Paragraph for Question Nos. 53 to 55
Two convex lenses, each of focal length 40 cm, and a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm are kept as shown.
An object is placed at 10 cm from the combination. Assume the lenses to be thin. Then answer the following
questions

53. For a image to be formed, the total number of refractions occurring through the combination is
(A) 4 (B) 9
(C) 1 (D) 8
54. The effective radius of curvature of the combination is
(A) 10 cm (B) 5 cm
(C) 90 cm (D) None of the above
55. The image distance from the combination is
(A) 5 cm (B) 10 cm
(C) 20 cm (D) 40 cm
Paragraph for Question Nos. 56 to 58
Consider a transparent hemisphere of refractive index  = 2 in front of which a small object is placed in air (n = 1)
as shown

O x R

56. For what value of x, the final image of object at O be virtual ?

(A) 2R (B) 3R
(C) R/2 (D) 1.5 R
57. What is the nature of final image of object x = 2R?
(A) Erect and magnified (B) Inverted and magnified
(C) Erect and same size (D) Inverted and same size

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58. Consider a ray starting from O which strikes the spherical surface at grazing incidence (i = 90°). Taking x =
R, what will be the angle (from the normal) at which the ray emerges from the plane surface?
(A) 90° (B) 0°
(C) 30° (D) 60°
Paragraph for Questions 59 and 60

Consider the arrangement shown. A converging mirror of focal length 3 cm is placed in air at a height of 9 cm above
water surface, with principal axis of the mirror being vertical. A point object O is placed on axis of mirror at a distance
of 2 cm from the mirror.

2cm
9cm O
vertical
axis of
mirror

water ( = 4/3)

59. Considering reflection at mirror followed by refraction from water, height of final image above water surface as
observed by an observer below water surface is

(A) 16 cm (B) 20 cm

(C) 6 cm (D) 10 cm

60. If water level starts going down at rate 3 cm/s, velocity of final image as seen by an observer below water
surface, is

(A) 3 cm/s (B) 4 cm/s

(C) 1 cm/s (D) 2 cm/s

Paragraph for Questions 61 and 62
A point object is located at a distance 100 cm from the screen. A lens of focal length 23 cm mounted on a movable
frictionless stand is kept between the object and screen. The stand is attached to massless spring of natural length
50 cm and spring constant 800 N/m as shown in the figure. Mass of the stand with lens is 2 kg. Initially spring is
in its natural length. Now a sharp impulse J is given to the stand. Answer the following questions.

61. It is observed that successively a real images of the object S are formed on the screen after a fixed time gap
(four times in an oscillation). This time gap is

 
(A) sec (B) sec
10 20

 
(C) sec (D) sec
30 40

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62. Choose the correct option(s) :
(A) Impulse J imparted to the stand is 8 kg m/sec
(B) Impulse J imparted to the stand is 6 kg m/sec
(C) Difference between extreme positions of lens is 40 cm
(D) Difference between extreme positions of lens is 60 cm

SECTION-D
Matrix-Match Type
This Section D have “match the following” type question. Question contains two columns, Col-I and Col-II. Match the
entries in Col-I with the entries in Col-II. One or more entries in Col-I may match with one or more entries in Col-II.

63. An object O (real) is placed at focus of an equi-convex lens as shown in figure. The refractive index of material
of lens is  = 1.5 and the radius of curvature of either surface of lens is R. The lens is surrounded by air. In
each statement of column-I some changes are made to situation given above and information regarding final
image formed as a result is given in column-II. The distance between lens and object is unchanged in all
statements of column-I. Match column-I with column-II and select the correct answer using the codes given
below the lists

Column I Column II
(A) If the refractive index of the lens is (p) final image is real
doubled (that is, made 2 ) then
(B) If the radius of curvature is doubled (that is, made (q) final image is virtual
2R) then
(C) If a glass slab of refractive index  = 1.5 is (r) final image becomes smaller in size comparison
introduced between the object and lens as shown, to size of image before the change was made
then

(D) If the left side of lens is filled with a medium (s) final image is inverted
of refractive index  = 1.5 as shown, then

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64. A spherical interface whose radius is R divides the space in two parts such that the x-axis behaves as principal
axis and origin O behaves as pole as shown in the figure. The refractive index of medium I is 1 and that of
medium II is 2. Now match the column I with column II (assume concept of paraxial rays)

Column I Column II
(A) Object is kept at point (–a, 0) and 1 < 2 (p) Image may be real
(B) Object is kept at point (–a, 0) and 1 > 2 (q) Image may be virtual
(C) Virtual object is at point (+a, 0) and 1 < 2 (r) The position of image may be in
between the position of object and
origin
(D) Virtual object is at point (+a, 0) and 1 > 2 (s) The position of image may be in
between the position of object and
centre of curvature of interface
65. In column - I a point object ‘O’ an object and mirror are shown in which one of them is moving with velocity v as
shown in figure. Column - II gives the information about velocity of image at the given instant

Column I Column II

(A) (p) x-component of velocity of image will

be positive

(B) O (q) x-component of velocity of image will

be negative

O P is the pole of
(C) 2F F P the mirror (r) y-component of velocity of image will

be positive

(D) O (s) y-component of velocity of image will

2F F P

be negative

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SECTION-E
Integer Answer Type
This section contains Integer type questions. The answer to each of the questions is an integer.

 
66. An equi-convex lens of focal length 10cm in air and refractive index  g  1.5 is placed in a liquid whose refractive
 1 
index varies with time as   t   1.0  t , (t in sec). Lens will act as concave lens of focal length 20cm at
 10 
t = 5n(in sec). Find n.
67. A ray of light enters a spherical liquid drop (refractive index = 3 ) from air at an angle of incidence (0°). It
suffers one internal reflection (not TIR) inside the drop and finally comes out of the drop. If  is such that the
deviation of the ray with respect to its original direction is minimum, find the value of 12 sin2.
68. A converging lens (focal length f) is broken in two equal pieces and placed at 60 cm as shown along with the
object. It is found that real images are formed at the same place and ratio of image heights is 9 : 1. If the value of
 1
f is  22   cm, then value of x is
 x

60 cm
69. Image distance |v| vs object distance |u| curve for two biconvex lens with same radii of curvatures is shown in the
5
figure. If refractive index of lens A is , find refractive index of lens B
2

(B)

(A)

70. Along the main optical axis of a converging lens with focal length f = 5 cm two fireflies are moving towards each
other. They are on opposite sides of the lens. The speed of the fireflies is the same v = 2 cm/sec. After what
minimum time (in sec.) does the first firefly meet image of the second, if at the initial time they were at distance
20 cm and 30 cm from the lens respectively ? Round off to nearest integer
71. An insect at point ‘P’ sees its two images in the water mirror system as shown the figure. One image is formed
due to direct partial reflection from water surface and the other image is formed due to refraction, reflection and
again refraction by water mirror system in order. The separation (in cm) between the two images is S. Find S/8.
4
Mirror M has focal length 60 cm. [Take w = ]
3
P

12 cm

c 24 cm

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72. A light ray parallel to the x-axis strikes the outer reflecting surface of a sphere at a point (2, 2, 0). Centre of sphere
is at the point (0, 0, –1). The unit vector along the direction of the reflected ray is xiˆ  yjˆ  zkˆ . Find the value of

yz
8x 2
73. A block of mass ‘m’ is attached to a spring. Block is released from rest, when spring is in natural length. Block is
along the principal axis of concave mirror and size of block is very small. When spring is in natural length then
block is at a distance of 20 cm from the mirror. Distance (in cm) in which the image formed by mirror oscillates is
D. Find D/2 (mass of the block = 5 × 10–2 kg, spring constant k = 20 N/m, g = 10 m/s2)

m
R 20 cm

74. A glass sphere (radius r = 6 cm) having refractive index (3/2) is having a small dust particle at its centre. It is
4
placed in a liquid of refractive index such that surface of liquid is 6 cm above the surface of sphere. The dust
3
particle is viewed from above normally. If it appears 9x cm below the liquid surface then, find the value of x.

75. Two thin symmetrical lens have one converging and the other diverging nature and have equal radii of curvature
(R = 20 cm) of all faces. The lenses are kept in contact and immersed in water ( = 4/3). The difference in the
f
refractive indices of the two lenses is 5/9. The focal length of the system is f in cm. Find the value of
12

76. A thin convex lens having focal length 20 cm is cut into two parts (A and B) 10 mm above the principle axis. The
lower part ‘A’ is placed with its optical centre at origin and upper part ‘B’ at (90 cm, 0) as shown in the figure. A

point object ‘P’ is placed at (–30 cm, 0). If the distance of final image from x-axis is N mm, then find the value of
N
(Assuming paraxial ray approximation to remain valid)
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77. A laser beam propagates through a spherically symmetric medium, as shown in the figure. The refractive index

r 
varies with the distance to the symmetry centre C by the law (r) = 0   , where 0 = 1, r0 = 3 cm, r0  r < .
 r0 
The beam’s trajectory lies in the plane that includes C. At distance r 1 = 8 2 cm the beam makes an angle

 = 45° with r1 as shown in the figure. Find the minimum distance (in cm) the beam reach relative to the
symmetry centre C.

78. An opaque sphere of radius a is just immersed ina transparent liquid as shown in figure. A point source is placed
on the vertical diameter of the sphere at a distance a/2 from the top of the sphere. One ray originating from the
point source after refraction from the air liquid interface forms tangent to the sphere. The angle of refraction for that
4
particular ray is 30°. The refractive index of the liquid is found to be . Here  is an integer. Find 


Point source
a/2

liquid
a

SECTION - F
Reasoning Type
This section contains reasoning type question. This question has 4 choices (A), (B), (C) and (D), out of which
ONLY ONE is correct.

79. STATEMENT 1 : In the displacement method, the distance between the object and the screen should not
be less than 4f.
because
STATEMENT 2 : In the displacement method, at one position of lens the image formed is larger and in the
second position the image formed is smaller than actual height of the object.
(A) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(B) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement -2 is NOT a correct explanation for Statement-1
(C) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is False
(D) Statement-1 is False, Statement-2 is True

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Answer key

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1. (C) 2. (A) 3. (B) 4. (B) 5. (A) 6. (A)

7. (A) 8. (B) 9. (D) 10.(A) 11.(A) 12. (C)

13.(C) 14. (C) 15. (A) 16.(B) 17.(B) 18. (C)

19.(A) 20. (C) 21. (A) 22.(D) 23.(A) 24. (A)

25.(A) 26. (B) 27. (D) 28.(A) 29.(C) 30. (C)

31.(B) 32. (B) 33. (B) 34.(D) 35.(C) 36. (A)

37.(D) 38. (D) 39. (A) 40.(C) 41.(B,D) 42. (A,B,C,D)

43.(A,C) 44.(A,C) 45. (A,C) 46.(A,D) 47.(B,D) 48. (B)

49.(A) 50. (B) 51. (B) 52.(B) 53.(D) 54. (A)

55.(B) 56. (C) 57. (B) 58.(A) 59.(B) 60. (B)

61.(D) 62. (A,C) 63.(A-p,r,s, B-q,r ,C-p,r,s, D-q,r) 64.(A-p,q, B-q,r ,C-p, D-p,q,r.s)

65.(A-q,r, B-p ,C-q,s, D-p,r) 66. (2) 67.(4) 68.(2) 69. (2)

70.(3) 71. (3) 72. (4) 73.(5) 74.(1) 75. (2)

76.(3) 77. (8) 78.(7) 79.(B)

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