Which of the following is not due to the total internal reflection of light

  •   Brilliance of the diamond

  •   Mirage on hot summer days

  •   Working of optical fiber

  •   Difference between real and apparent depth of a pound

A ray of light incident on an equilateral prism at grazing incidence emerges from the prism at grazing emergence. The Refractive index of the prism is

  • 1.5

  • 1.8

  • 1.33

  • 2

Absolute refractive indices of glass and water are 3/2 and 4/3. The ratio of velocity of light in glass and water will be

  •   4:3

  •   8:7

  •   8:9

  •   3:4

Two identical equiconvex thin lenses each of focal lengths 20 cm, made of material of refractive index 1.5 are placed coaxially in contact as shown. Now, the space between them is filled with a liquid with a refractive index of 1.5. The equivalent power of this arrangement will be:

  • +5 D

  • zero

  • +2.5 D

  • +0.5 D

The length of an astronomical telescope adjusted for parallel light is 90 cm. If the magnifying power of the telescope is 17, then the focal length of eyepiece and objective are respectively

  • 10 cm and 80 cm

  • 85 cm and 5 cm

  • 70 cm and 20 cm

  • 5 cm and 85 cm

A ray of light falls on a transparent sphere as shown in the figure. If the final ray emerges from the sphere parallel to the horizontal diameter, then calculate the refractive index of the sphere. Consider that the sphere is kept in the air.
                                           

  •   2  

  •   3 

  •   3/2 

  •   4/3

A point source of light B is placed at a distance L in front of the centre of a mirror of width d hung vertically on a wall. A man walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror at a distance 2L from it as shown. The greatest distance over which he can see the image of the light source in the mirror is

                       

 

  • d/2                                     

  • d

  • 2d                                       

  • 3d

Two plane mirrors, A and B are aligned parallel to each other, as shown in the figure. A light ray is incident at an angle of 30° at a point just inside one end of A. The plane of incidence coincides with the plane of the figure. The maximum number of times the ray undergoes reflections (excluding the first one) before it emerges out is :
                      

  •   28                     

  •   30

  •   32         

  •   34

A concave mirror of focal length 100 cm is used to obtain the image of the sun which subtends an angle of 30'. The diameter of the image of the sun will be:

  • (1) 1.74 cm                         

  • (2) 0.87cm

  • (3) 0.435 cm                        

  • (4) 100 cm

A square of side 3 cm  is placed at a distance of 25 cm from a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm. The centre of the square is at the axis of the mirror and the plane is normal to the axis. The area enclosed by the image of the square is

  • 4 cm2                        

  • 6 cm2

  • 16 cm2                     

  • 36 cm2

A ray of light falls on the surface of a spherical glass paperweight making an angle α with the normal and is refracted in the medium at an angle β . The angle of deviation of the emergent ray from the direction of the incident ray
(a) α-β                     (b) 2α-β

(c) α-β/2                 (d) β-α

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Light enters at an angle of incidence in a transparent rod of refractive index n. For what value of the refractive index of the material of the rod the light once entered into it will not leave it through its lateral face what so ever be the value of angle of incidence 

  •  n>2                       

  •  n=1

  •  n=1.1                       

  • n=1.3

One face of a rectangular glass plate 6 cm thick is silvered. An object held 8 cm in front of the first face, forms an image 10 cm behind the silvered face. The refractive index of the glass is [Consider that light ray returns back in the first medium]

  • 0.4                     

  • 0.8

  • 1.5                     

  • 1.6

Two transparent slabs have the same thickness as shown. One is made of material A of refractive index 1.5. The other is made of two materials B and C with thickness in the ratio 1:2. The refractive index of C is 1.6. If a monochromatic parallel beam passing through the slabs has the same number of waves inside both, the refractive index of B is

  •   1.1     

  •   1.2

  •   1.3

  •   1.4

The image of point P when viewed from the top of the slabs will be

  •    2.0 cm above P

  •    1.5 cm above P

  •    2.0 cm below P

  •    1 cm above P

Two point light sources are 24 cm apart. Where should a convex lens of focal length 9 cm be put in between them from one source so that the images of both the sources are formed at the same place?

  • 6 cm                                  

  • 9 cm

  • 12 cm                               

  • 15 cm

The graph between u and v for a convex mirror is

1. 2.
3. 4.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Figure shows a cubical room ABCD with the wall CD as a plane mirror. Each side of the

room is 3m. We place a camera at the midpoint of the wall AB. At what distance should

the camera be focussed to photograph an object placed at A

                    

  •  1.5 m                                     

  •  3 m

  •  6 m                                         

  • More than 6 m

There  is an equi-convex glass lens with radius of each face as R and μga=32 and μwa=43. If there is water in object space and air in image space, then the focal length is :

     

  •    2R                                     

  •    R

  •    32R                                 

  •   R2

A prism having an apex angle 4o and refraction index 1.5 is located in front of a vertical plane mirror as shown in the figure. Through what total angle is the ray deviated after reflection from the mirror?

  • ()   176o

  • ()   4o

  • ()   178o

  • ()   2o  

A rectangular glass slab ABCD, of refractive index n1, is immersed in water of the refractive index n2n1>n2. A ray of light is incident at the surface AB of the slab as shown. The maximum value of the angle of incidence αmax, such that the ray comes out only from the other surface CD is given by

                        

  •   sin-1n1n2cossin-1n2n1           

  •   sin-1n1cossin-11n2

  •   sin-1n1n2                           

  •   sin-1n2n1           

A rod of glass (μ = 1.5) and of the square cross-section is bent into the shape shown in the figure. A parallel beam of light falls on the plane flat surface A as shown in the figure. If d is the width of a side and R is the radius of a circular arc then for what maximum value of dR light entering the glass slab through surface A emerges from the glass through B?

    

  • 1.5
  • 0.5
  • 1.3
  • None of these

A diverging beam of light from a point source S having divergence angle α, falls symmetrically on a glass slab as shown. The angles of incidence of the two extreme rays are equal. If the thickness of the glass slab is t and the refractive index n, then the divergence angle of the emergent beam is :
                           

  • Zero                                       

  • α

  • sin-11/n                           

  • 2sin-1(1/n)

A concave mirror is placed at the bottom of an empty tank with face upwards and axis vertical. When sunlight falls normally on the mirror, it is focused at distance of 32 cm from the mirror. If the tank is filled with water μ=43 upto a height of 20 cm, then the sunlight will now get focussed at

  • 16 cm above water level

  • 9 cm above water level

  • 24 cm below water level

  • 9 cm below water level

The slab of a refractive index material equal to 2 shown in the figure has a curved surface APB of a radius of curvature of 10 cm and a plane surface CD. On the left of APB is air and on the right of CD is water with refractive indices as given in the figure. An object O is placed at a distance of 15 cm from pole P as shown. The distance of the final image of O from P as viewed from the left is:
          

  • 20 cm

  • 30 cm

  • 40 cm

  • 50 cm

The distance between a convex lens and a plane mirror is 10 cm. The parallel rays incident on the convex lens, after reflection from the mirror form image at the optical centre of the lens. Focal length of the lens will be

            

  • 10 cm

  • 20 cm

  • 30 cm

  • Cannot be determined

An air bubble in a sphere having 4 cm diameter that appears 1 cm from the surface nearest to the eye when looked along diameter. Ifμga = 1.5, the distance of bubble from the refracting surface is

  •   1.2 cm                   

  •   3.2 cm

  •   2.8 cm           

  •   1.6 cm

An observer can see through a pinhole the top end of a thin rod of height h, placed as shown in the figure. The beaker height is 3h and its radius h. When the beaker is filled with a liquid up to a height 2h, he can see the lower end of the rod. Then the refractive index of the liquid is

                        

  •  5/2                                   

  •  5/2

  •  3/2                               

  • 3/2

In an experiment of find the focal length of a concave mirror a graph is drawn between the magnitudes of u and v.  The graph looks like 

            

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

As the position of an object (u) reflected from a concave mirror is varied, the position of the image (v) also varies. By letting the u change from 0 to infinity, the graph between v versus u will be-

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
0:0:1


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