LEVEL-1

MCQs Having One Correct Answer Only

1. A beam of light gets with the horizontal. If a ravof
reflected from a plane mirror and 5. A miror is inclined at an angle reflected ray makes th
image is formed. The incident beam should be
a real
light is incident at an angle , then the
(a) parallel following angle with the horizontal
(b) convergent
(c) divergent
(d) plane mirror cannot form a
real image
2. Two plane mirrors are inclined at angle
If a ray parallel to OB strikes the
as shown in fig. 1.203.
other mirror at P and finaily H
emerges parallel to OA after two reflections, then is equal to
FIGURE 1.205
(b) 20
(a) 0
(c) e/2 (d) zero
6. In the given fig. 1.206, find the angle between reflected rays.

7B

FIGURE 1.203 30°

(a) 90 (b) 60°
(c) 45° (d) 30°
3. In the arrangement shown below, the image of the extemal object
as seen by the observer is
FIGURE 1.206
(a) 15° (b) 30
(c) 45° () 60

Object 7. Line MN is a straight road parallel to miror AB of length d. A

point object Ois shown away from road at distance d. The length
of the road over which image of O can be seen through the miror
is

Observer N

FIGURE 1.204
d
(a) real and inverted (b) real and erect
(c) virtual and inverted (d) virtual and erect
d
facing the
4. A plane mirror is placed at origin parallel to y-axis, velocity
positivex-axis. An object starts from (3 m, 0, 0) with a
M
of (2f+ )) m/s.The relative velocity of image with respect to
object is along FIGURE 1.207
(a) positive x-axis (b) negative x-axis (a) 2 d
(b) 3 d
(c) positive y-axis (d) negative y-axis (c) 3 d/2 (d) 4 d
 8. A point source of light is
placed in front of a plane mirror as |N
shown in fig. 1.208. Determine the length of reflected path of
A
light on the screen.
S
Denser
L
Rarer B
D

FIGURE 1.210

(a) sin (cot r) (b) sin-l (tan i)

Screen (d) tan (tan i)
(c) sin- (tan )
FIGURE 1.208 then
15. If the refractive index of water is 4/3 and that of glass is 5/3,
(a) L (b) 2L the critical angle of incidence for light tending to go from glass
(c) 3 L/2 (d) LI2 to water is
9. A bird is flying with a velocityv between two long vertical plane
mirrors making an angle with miror M, as shown. Then what
will be the relative velocity between the images formed by the
(a) sin
) (b) sin
mirrors M, and M, due to the lst reflection in each of them
(c) sin-| (d) sin

16. A ray of light passes through four transparent media with refractive
indices , H. H3 and u as shown in fig. 1.211. The surfaces of
all media are parallel. If the emergent ray CD is parallel to the
incident ray AB, we must have
M1 M2
FIGURE 1.209 D
(a) v sin (b) 2 v sin 0
(c) 2 (v sin + L) (d) zero
10. A ray of light passes from air into a liquid and the angle of
incidence is 60°. If the deviation produced is 7°, then the refractive
index of the liquid is B

(a
2V3 (b)
V3
5 2
A
5 5V3
(c) (d)
4
FIGURE 1.211
1. If u; represents the refractive index when a light ray goes from
medium i to medium , then the product 1 XHy XH43 is
(c) H3 = H4
equal to 17. A ray of light travelling in a medium of refractive index u is
(a) M32 (b) H42 incident at an angle on a composite transparent plate consisting
(c) M31 (d) 1/4 of 50 plates of refractive indices 1-01 u, 1-02 u, 1-03 u,
12. Monochromatic light of wavelength , travelling in a medium of 1-50u. The ray emerges from the composite plate into a medium
refractive index n, enters a denser medium of refractive index of refractive index 1-6 u at angle 'x'. Then
n. The wavelength in the second medium is
(b) A, (ny/n) 1-01P
(a) , (n/n,) (a) sinr= sin (b) sin x =-sin e
15
(c) , (n - n,m, refractive
13. A ray of light passes from vacuum into a medium of
refraction,
index n. If the angle of incidence is twice the angle of
50
(c) sinx= -sin 0 15
the angle of incidence is (d) sin x= sin
1-01
(a) cos (n/2) (b) sin- (n/2)
18. A ray of light is incident at an angle of 70 into a medium having
(c) 2 cos (n/2) (d) 2 sin- (n/2) refractive index u. The reflected and the refracted rays are found
medium at
14. A ray of light from a denser medium strikes a rarer to suffer equal deviations in opposite directions. Then, u equals
refracted
angle of incidence i(see fig. 1.210). The reflected and reflection (a) tan 70° (b) 2 sin 70°
rays make an angle of 90° with each other. The angles of
(c) cosec 70° (d) none of these
and refraction are r and . Then, critical angle is
 22. A ray of light travelling in water is incident on its surface open to
19, Bottom face of the glass cube (u =2) is silvered as shown. A air. The angle of incidence is 0, which is less than the critical
ray of light is incident on top face of the cube and after reflection angle. Then there will be
from the bottom face, it is incident on the side face. Find the
(a) only a reflected ray and no refracted ray
deviation of the ray when it comes out of the glass cube.
(b) only a refracted ray and noreflected ray
45 (c) areflected ray and a refracted ray and the angle between
them would be less than (180° - 2 0)
(d) a reflected ray and a refracted ray and the angle between
them would be greater than (180° - 2 )
23. It is found that all electro magnetic signals sent from A towards
B reach point C inside the glass sphere, as shown in fig. 1.215.
The speed of clectromagnetic signals in glass cannot be

Vaccum
FIGURE 1.212
(a) 0 (b) 90° Glass
(c) 180° (d) 270°
20. A thick slab made of a transparent material of refractive index
4/3 is placed in a region. The medium above the slab is air and
the refractive index of medium belowthe slab is 3/2 as shown in
the fig. 1.213. A ray of light is incident on slab at an angle 60° FIGURE 1.215
with vertical. At what angle to the normal, will the ray leave the (a) 1-0 x 10 ms-1 (b) 2-4 >x 10 msl
plate?
(c) 2 x 10 ms-1 (d) 4 x 10 ms-!
60° 24. The critical angle for light going from medium X into medium Y
is 0. The speed of light in medium X is v. The speed of light in
medium Yis
(a) v cos 0 (b) v/cos 0
=4/3 (c) v sin 0 (d) v/sin
u'= 3/2 25. A ray R, is incident on the plane surface of the glass slab (kept in
FIGURE 1.213 air) of refractive index 2 at an angle of incidence equal to the
(a) 30°
critical angle for this air glass system. The refracted ray R,
(b) 45° undergoes partial reflection and partial refraction at the other
(c) sin-| 1 surface. The angle between reflected ray Rz and the refracted ray
(a) sin-! Ra at that surface is

21. A point source S is placed at the bottom of different layers as RË

shown in fig. 1.214. The refractive index of bottom most layer is
Lo. The refractive index of any other upper layer is
Ho
u(n) =, t 4n-18 A ray of light with angle i = 30° starts R, R3
from the source S. Total internal reflection takes place at the upper
surface of layer having n equal to
R4
FIGURE 1.216
(a) 45° (b) 135°
n=3 (c) 105° (d) 75°
n=2 26. A fish in water sees an object which is 24 cm
above the surface
of water. The height of the object above the
n=1 surface of water that
will appear to the fish is (Refractive Index of water is
4/3)
(a) 24 cm (b) 32 cm
(c) 18 cm (d) 48 cm
FIGURE 1.214 27. A bird in air looks at fish vertically
below it and inside the water
in a tank. The distance of fish as
(a) 3
(b) 5 estimated by the bird is 40 cm
and that of bird as estimated by the fish is 50
(d) 6 cm. The refractive
(c) 4 index of water is
 (a) 4/3 (b) 1-81
(b) 3/2 (a) 1-72
(c) 5/4 (d) 7/5 (c) 1-57 (d) 1-63
thickness
28. A beam of light is converging
towards a point on a screen. A 32. n transparent slabs of refractive index 1-5 each having
plane parallel plate of glass whose thickness is in the direction I cm, 2 cm, ... to n cm are arranged one over another. A point
of object is seen through this combination with near perpendicular
beam = t, refractive index = u is introduced in the path of the
beam. The convergence point is shifted by light. If the shift of object by the combination is 1 cm, then the
value ofn is
(a) either 2 or 3 (b) 2
(a)
-way (b)
(c) 3 (d) 0-3
33. A lens forms a sharp image on a screen. On inserting a parallel
1 sided slab of glass between the lens and the screen, it found
(c) nearer (d) nearer necessary to move the screen a distance d away fromn the lens in
order for the image to be again sharply focused. If the refractive
29. A slab of refractive index 3/2 and thickness of 18 cm is placed in index of glass relative to air is u, then the thickness of the slab is
water of refractive index 4/3. The distance through which the (u +)d
point object P appears to be shifted is (a) (b)

ud (d)
(u-Dd
(c)
l-1
34. How much water should be filled in a container, 2 1l cm in height,
so that it appears half filled when viewed from the top of the
container? Given refractive index of water = 4/3
(a) 8-0 cm (b) 10-5 cm
FIGURE 1.217 (c) 12-0 cm (d) 14-0 cm
(a) 2 cm leftward (b) 2cm rightward 35. A bird in air looks at a fish vertically below it and inside water.
(c) 6 cm rightward (d) 2-25 cm leftward h, is the height of the bird above the surface of water and hT, the
30. In a thick glass slab of thickness l and refractive index n,, there depth of the fish below the surface of water. If refractive index of
is a cuboidal cavity of thickness m which is filled with a liquid of water with respect to air be u, then the distance of the fish as
refractive index n, (n, > n,). Find the ratio l/m, so that shift observed by the bird is
produced by this slab is zero when an observer A (in air) observes (a) h + hy
an object B (in air) as shown in fig. 1.218.
A (c) h t+ hy (d) h + hy
36. The image of point P when viewed from top of the slabs will be
Air
n1

u=15
4.5cm
1.5cm
Air
=1.5 1.5cm
FIGURE 1.218 2.0cm
Pe

(a) (b) FIGURE 1.220

n, (n -1)
(a) 2-0 cm above P (b) 1-5 cm above P
(c) 2-0 cm below P (d) l cm aboveP
(c) (d)
37. Consider the situation shown in fig. 1.221. Water (u, = 4/3) is
31. For normal incidence. find the equivalent refractive index of the
filled in a beaker upto a height of 10 cm. A plane miror is fixed
combination slabs as shown in fig. 1.219. at a height of 5 cm from the surface of water:.The distance of
image from the mirror (after reflection from it) of an object O at
15 cm 8 cm 10cm the bottom of the beaker is

5cm

10 cm
3 4

FIGURE 1.219
FIGURE 1.221
 (a) 15 cm (b) 125 cm 43. In fig. 1.225, ABC is the cross section of a right-angled prism
and ACDE is the cross section of a glass slab. The value of so
(c) 7-5 cm (d) 10 cm
that light incident normally on the face AB does not cross the
38. Abird is flying up at angle sin(3/5) with the horizontal. Afish face AC is (given sin-0-6 = 37°)
in a pond looks at that bird. When it is vertically above the fish,
the angle at which the brid appears to fly (to the fish) is A E
6/5
nn=
n=3/2
"water = 4/3]
(a) sin l (3/5) (b) sin- (4/5)
(c) 45° (d) sin (9/16)
39. A paraxial beam of light is incident on a slab of refractive index
B C D
3/2 and thickness 15 cm. The slab is placed in air as shown in
fig. 1.222. The converging point of the beam after refraction FIGURE 1.225
through slab is (b) <370
(a) 0s 37°
15 cm (c) 0s530 (d) 0<53°
44. In the given fig. 1.226, if 0 = 53 , the angle of deviation is

Air
Water
u=4/3

FIGURE 1.222
FIGURE 1.226
(a) at 5 cm right of point P (b) at S cm left of point P
(c) at point P (d) none of these (a) 74º (6) 530
40. A concave mirror of radius of (c) 106° (d) 90°
curvature h is placed at the bottom 45. An air bubble inside a glass slab appears to be 6 cm deep when
of a tank containing a liquid of viewed from one side and 4 cm deep when viewed from the
refractive index u upto a depth d. opposite side. If refractive index of glass is 1-5, then the thickness
An object P is placed at height h p
of the slab is
above the bottom of the mirror. d (a) 10 cm (b) 6-67 cm
Outside the liquid, an observer O (c) 15 cm (d) none of these
views the object and its image in
the mirrOr. The apparent distance 46. A light ray is incident perpendicular to one face of a 90° prism
between these two will be FIGURE 1.223 and is totally internally reflected at the glass-air interface. If the
angle of reflection is 45°, we conclude that the refractive index is
2h
(a) (b)
-1

2h
(c) zero (d)

41. Critical angle of glass is 8, and that of water is 8,. The critical h45°
angle for water and glass surface would be (H, = 3/2, H = 4/3)
(a) less than 0, (b) between , and , 45°
(c) greater than 6, (d) less than ,
42. Light traveling through three transparent substances follows the
path shown in fig. 1.224. Arrange the indices of refraction in FIGURE 1.227
order from smallest to largest.
n
(a) n (6) n>2

(c) nT (d) n<y2

47. Light is incident normally on face AB of a prism as shown in fig.
FIGURE 1.224 1.228. Aliquid of refractive index u is placed on face AC of the
prism. The prism is made of glass of refractive index 3/2. The
(a) n < ny < n3 (b) ny <n, <3 limits of for which total internal reflection takes place on face
(c) n <nz <2 (d) n, <n < n AC is
 Liguid (a)
V2+1 (b) 3/2
30°C 2
60°
(c) Vv2 (d) N2 +I
90
51. Light is incident on a glass block as shown in fig. I.232. If 0, is
B increased slightly, what happens to 0,?
FIGURE 1.228

33
(b) u <
2

(c) u> 3 V3
(d) 4<
48. A glass prism of refractive index 1-5 is immersed in a liquid of
FIGURE 1.232
refractive index u as shown in fig. 1.229. Alight beam incident
normally onthe face AB will be totally reflected to reach the face (a) 8, also increases slightly
BC if
(b) 8, is unchanged
B
60 (c) 8, dercreases slightly
(d) 8, changes abruptly, since the ray experience total internal
reflection
52. A ray of light enters at a rectangular glass slab of refractive index
3 at an angle of incidence 60, It travels a distance of 5cm inside
the slab and emerges out of the slab. The perpendicular distance
FIGURE 1.229 between the incident and the emergent rays is
2V3 (a) 5 cm (b) 2-5 cm
(a) =3
(c) 5/3/2 cm (a) 53cm
(c) 4>3 53. A ray of light from a denser medium strikes a rarer medium. The
4 angle of reflection is r and that of refraction is . The reflected
49. A fish looking up through the water sees the outside world and refracted rays make an angle of 90° with each other. The
contained in a circular horizon. If the refractive index of water is critical angle will be
4/3 and the fish is 12 cm below the surface, the radius of this (a) sin- (tan r) (b) tan-l (sin r)
circle (in cm) is (c) sin- (tan ) (d) tan (sin )
54. A 2cm diameter coin rests flat on the bottom of a bowl in which
the water is 20 cm deep (H,, = 4/3). If the coin is viewed directly
from above, what is its apparent diameter?
|12cm (a) 2 cm (b) 1-5 cm
(c) 2-67 cm (d) 1-67 cm
55. Anobject is placed 50 cm in front of a convex surface of radius
FIGURE 1.230
20 cm. If the surface separates air from glass of refractive index
1-5, the distance of the image from the lens and its nature are
(a) 36 V5 (b) 4/5 (a) 3 cm, real (b) 30 cm, virtual
(c) 300 cm, real (d) 300cm, virtual
(c) 36V3 (d) 36//7 S6. In a spherical paper weight (R= 10 cm) made of glass of refractive
index u = 15, an object is embedded at a distance 5 cm from its
50. In fig. 1.231, for an angle of incidence of 45° at the top surface, centre. What is the apparent position of the object when seen
what is the minimum refractive index for total internal reflection
at the vertical face? from the opposite side? (see fig. 1.233)

Air
i452/ Scm. R Observer
P (air)
C
3/2

FIGURE 1.231 FIGURE 1.233

 (a) 10 cm behind centre (b) 10 cm behind P (a) 12 m (b) 20 m
(c) 15 cm behind centre (d) 5 cm behind P (c) 14 m (d) 10m
57. A plano-concave lens is placed on a paper on which a flower is 61. Refraction takes place at a convex spherical boundary separating
drawn. The distance above its actual position where the flower glass-air medium. For the image to be real, the object distance
will appear to be is should be/is (4, = 3/2)
Radius of (a) greater than three times the radius of curvature of the
curvature = 20 cm refracting surface
(b) greater than two times the radius of curvature of the refracting
Air
surface
+ l=3/2
t=20 cm (c) greater than the radius of curvature of the refracting surface
(d) independent of the radius of curvature of the refracting
surface
Paper 62. The radius of refractive spherical surface is 20 cm as shown in
FIGURE 1.234 the fig. 1.238 For what value of x, the image of point object P is
real?
(a) 10 cm (b) 15 cm
(c) 50 cm (d) None of these u=3/2
u =2
58. Find the position of an object from spherical surface such that.
image coincides with object.
R= 20 cm P
Air

l=15
FIGURE 1.238

(a) x> 80 cm (b) x< 80 cm

(c) x> 40cm (d) x< 40 cm
FIGURE 1.235 63. A concave spherical surface of
(a) 40 cm (b) 20 cm radius of curvature 10 cm,
separates two mediums X and Y of
(c) Can not be calculated
refractive indices 4/3 and 3/2
(d) The position of object come in the formn of d
respectively. If the object is placed
59. Find the distance of object (placed in the slab of refractive index along principal axis in medium X,
) from point P of the curved surface of radius Rso that image is then
formed at infinity. (a) image is always real FIGURE 1.239
(b) image is real if the object distance is greater than 90 cm
(c) image is always virtual
(d) image is virtual if the object distance is less than 90 cm
FIGURE 1.236 64. In given fig. 1.240, spherical refractive surface separates two
(u-1)R media. The refractive index of right side of surface is u = l+.
(a) (b) -1 where t is in second. A paraxial parallel beam of light is incident
(H-1) R on the surface from air. ind the time at which the
R converging
(c) (d) point of beam is 30 cm rightward from the surface.
-1 24
R= 10cm
60. In fig.1.237, a point object Ois placed in air. Aspherical boundary
of radius Im separates two media. AB is the principal axis. The Air
refractive index above AB is 1-6 and below AB is 2-0. The
separation between the images formed due to refraction at the
spherical surface is

|:6
FIGURE 1.240
A (a) 10 s (b) 5 s
2-0 (c) 1 s (d) 20s
2 m
65. A paraxial beam is incident on a glass (u= 1:5)
radius R=6 cm in air as shown. The hemisphere of
FIGURE 1.237 distance of point of
convergence F from the plane surface of hemisphere is
 (a) 10 cm (b) 20 cm
(c) 30 cm (d) 60 cm
71. A concave mirror of radius of curvature 40 cm forms an image of
an object placed on the principal axis at a distance 45 cm in front
of it. Now if the system (including object) is completely immersed
in water (u = 1-33), then
FIGURE 1.241 (a) the image will shift towards the mirror
(a) 12 cm (b) 5.4 cm
(b) the magnification will reduce
(c) 18 cm (d) 8 cm (c) the image will shift away from the mirror and magnification
will increase.
66. When a pin is moved along the principal axis of a
mirror, the image position coincides with the objectsmall concave (d) the position of the image and magnification will not change
0-5 m from the mirror, refer fig. 1.242. If the at a point
mirror is 72. The image produced by a concave mirror is one-quarter the size
a depth of 0-2 m in atransparent liquid, placed at of object. If the object is moved 5 cm closer to the mirror, the
the same phenomenon
occurs when the pin is placed 0-4 m from the miror. The image will only be half the size of the object. The focal length of
index of the liquid is refractive mirror is
(a) f= 5.0 cm (b) f= 2-5 cm
(c) f= 7-5 cm (d) f= 10cm
73. A convex mirror and a concave mnirror of radius 10 cm each are
placed 15 cm apart facing each other. An object is placed midway
02 m between them. If the reflection first takes place in the concave
mirror and then in convex mirror, the position of the final image is
(a) on the pole of the convex mirror
0-2 m
(b) on the pole of the concave mirror
(c) at a distance of 10 cm from the concave mirror
FIGURE 1.242 (d) at a distance of 5 cm from the concave mirrOr
(a) 6/5 (b) S/4 74. As the position of an object (u) reflected from a concave mirror
(c) 4/3 (d) 3/2 is varied, the position of the image (v) also varies. By letting u
67. A convex mirror having focal length f forms an image (1/n)th of change from to 0, the graph between v versus u will be
the size of the object. The distance of the object from the mirror V

is (a) (6)
(a) (n + 1)f (b) (n- 1)f
(c) nf (d) fln
68. A very thin rod of length 5 cm is placed along the axis of a concave
mirror having radius of curvature 30 cm. If one end of its
magnified image touches an end of the rod, then length of image (c) (d)
of rod is
(a) 2-5 cm (b) 5 cm
(c) 7:5 cm (d) 10cm
69. The real image of an object placed on the principal axis of a FIGURE 1.244
concave mirror of focal length 12 cm is formed at a point which 75. Which of the following graphs is best representation of variation
is 10 cm more distant from the mirror than the object. The of magnification m with distance of object I ulfor a concave
magnification of the image is mirror of focal length 10 cm if image is virtual?
(a) - 1-8 (b) - 2.5
m m
(c) - 2 (d) - 1-5
70. Apoint source of light Sis placed midway between a plane mirror 2 21
(a) (b)
and a concave mirror. The beam of light incident on plane mirror
becomes parallel to optical axis after reflection through the concave
mirror. The focal length of concave mirror is 30 cm. Find the 0
10 20 |ul(cm)
separation between the two mirrors.
10 20 |u(cm)
m4 mA

2 2+
(c) (d)
S

10 20 ui(cm) 10 20 ul(cm)
FIGURE 1.243
FIGURE 1.245
 76. An object is placed in front ofa concave mirror of focal length f 82. A point object O moves from the principal axis of a converging
as shown in fig. l.246. Choose the correct shape of the image. lens in a direction OP. At this instant, its rcal image I, will move
in the direction

Optic R
axis hb d

s>2f

FIGURE 1.246 FIGURE 1.249

(a) IQ (b) IR
(c) IS (d) 1U
(a) (b) 83. An equiconvex lens is made from glass of refractive index 1-5. If
a the radius of each surface is changed from 5 cm to 6 cm, then the
power
(a) remains unchanged (b) increases by 3-33 D
(c) decreases by 3-33 D (d) decreases by 5-5 D
84. When an object is at distance 10 cm and 30 cm from a thin
(c)
converging lens, virtual and real images of same size are formed.
The power of lens is
(a) 2 D (b) 4 D
FIGURE 1.247 (c) 5 D (d) 10D
77. A thin symmetric convex lens of refractive index of the material 85. Two point sources S, and S, are 24 cm apart. Where should a
1·5 and radius of curvature 0-5 m is immersed in water of convex lens of focal length 9 cm be placed in between them s0
refractive index 4/3. Its focal length will be that the images of both sources are formed at the location of one
another?
(a) 0-25 m (6) 4-00 m
(a) 6 cm from S, (b) 15 cm from S,
(c) 2-00 m (d) 0-50 m
78. The lens shown in the diagram has a (c) 10cm from S, (d) 12 cm from S
86. A double convex lens, made of amaterial of refractive index u,,
refractive index higher than that of its is placed inside two liquids of refractive indices u, and uz, as
surrounding medium. will converge
a paraxial beam incident on it shown in fig. 1.250, where, Hy >, >q. A wide, parallel beam of
light is incident on the lens from the left. The lens will give rise to
(a) from left only
(b) from right only
(c) either from left or right
FIGURE 1.248
(d) none
79. A convex lens, made of a material of refractive index 1-5 and
having a focal length of 10 cm, is immersed in aliquid of refractive
index 3-0. The lens will behave as a
(a) converging lens of focal length 10 cm FIGURE 1.250
(b) diverging lens of focal length 10 cm (a) a single convergent beam
(c) converging lens of focal length 10/3 cm (b) two different convergent beams
(d) diverging lens of focal length 30 cm (c) two different divergent beams
80. A thin converging lens of refractive index 1-5 has a power of + (d) a convergent and a divergent beam
0-5 D. When this lens is immersed in a liquid, it acts as a diverging 87. A double convex lens of focal length 6 cm is made of glass of
lens of focal length 200 cm. The refractive index of the liquid is refractive index 1-5. The radius of curvature of one surface is
(a) 4/3 (6) 3/2 double that of the other surface. The value of smaller radius of
(d) 2 curvature is
(c) 3
(a) 6 cm (b) 4-5 cm
81. Consider an equiconvex lens of radius of curvature Rand focal
length f. If f> R, the refractive index of the material of the (c) 9 cm (d) 4 cm
lens 88. A double convex lens is made of glass which has its
refractive
(a) is greater than zero but less than 1-5 index 1-55 for violet ray and 1-50 for red rays. If the focal length
(b) is greater than 1-5 but less than 2-0 for violet rays is 20 cm, the focal length of red ray will be
(a) 9 cm
(c) is greater than 1-0 but less than 1.5 (b) 18 cm
(d) none of these (c) 20 cm (d) 22 cm
 89. A convex lens of focal length l6 cm forms a real image double 1st 2nd
the size of the object. The distance of the object from the lens is
(a) 32 cm (b) 24 cm
(c) 20 cm incident emergent
(d) 8 cm
90. A paraxial beam of light having diameter 4 mm is incident on a
convex lens having focal length 20 cm. Ascreen is placed normal
to the beam at a distance of 30 cm on the other side. Diameter of
the image formed on the screen is 5 cm 5 cm

(a) 6 mm (b) 4 mm
(c) 3mm (d) 2 mm FIGURE 1.253

91. An object 1-5 cm high is placed 10 cm from the optical centre of (a) -5cm and + 10cm (b) + 5 cm and + 10 cm
a thin lens. Its image is formed 25 cm from the optical centre on (c) - 5cm and +5 cm (d) + 5 cm and-5 cm
the same side of the lens as the object. The height of the image is lens.
96. Fig. 1.254 shows an object and its image formed by a thin
(a) 2-5 cm (6) 0-2 cm of lens is
Then the nature and focal length
(c) 1-67 cm (d) 3-75 cm
Object
92. Fig. 1.251 shows an equiconvex lens of focal length f. If the lens Image
is cut along PQ, the focal length of cach half willbe 6:5 mm
P Optic axis
5 cm 3 cm
Lens
FIGURE 1.254

R (a) f= 4-8 cm converging lens

(b) f=- 4-8 cm diverging lens
(c) f= 2-18 cm converging lens
(d) f=-2-18 cm diverging lens
97. Fig. 1.255 shows a concavo
convex lens of refractive index u.
FIGURE 1.251 What is the condition on the
refractive indices so that the lens
(a) fI2 (6) f
is diverging?
(c) 2f (d) 4f 2R R
93. An equiconvex lens is formed by combination of two plano (a) 2 u3 <4 + 2
convex lenses of refractive indices 1-5 and 2. The radius of (6) 2 u3> +2 FIGURE 1.255
curvature of curved surface is 20 cm. A point object is placed at (c) M3> 2 (41 - z)
30cm from the lens. The image of the point object is (d) None of these
98. Optic axis of a thin equiconvex lens is the x-axis. The coordinates
of a point object and its image are (- 40 cm, 1 cm) and ( 50 cm,
-2 cm) respectively. Lens is located at
(a) x+20 cm (b) x=-30 cm
Pe
(c) x=- 10 cm (d) origin
99. Areal image is formed by a convex lens. Aconcave lens is now
placed adjacent to the convex lens, again the real image is formed.
30 cm This will
(a) shift towards the lens system
FIGURE 1.252
(b) shift away from the lens system
(a) 24 cm right of the lens (b) 24 cm left of the lens
(c) remain in its original position
(c) 12 cm right of the lens (d) None of the above (d) shift to infinity
94. When an object is moved along the axis of a lens, images three 100. Aconverging lens of focal length f" is placed at a distance 0-3 m
16
times the size of the object are obtained when the object is at from an object to produce an image on a screen 0-9 m from the
cm from the lens. The
cm and at one more position less than 16 lens. With the object and the screen are in the same positions, an
focal length and nature of the lens are image of the object could also be produced on the screen by
(a) 12 cm, concave (b) 4 cm, concave placing a converging lens of focal length
(c) 12 cm, convex (d) 4 cm, convex (a) fat a distance 0-1 m from the screen
the |s and
95. In the fig. 1.253 shown, what are the focal lengths of (b) fat a distance 0-3m from the screen
the 2nd lens respectively, if the emergent light ray passes without (c) 3fat a distance 03 m from the screen
any deviation? (d) 3 fat a distance 0-1 m from the screen
 101. The least distance between a point object and its real image formed
by aconvex lens of focal length fis
(a) 2f (b) 3f
(c) 4f (d) greater than 4f 2 mm
102. A converging lens of focal length 20 cm and diameter 5 cm is cut 4 mm
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 iton the line XY which is perpendicular to the plane
of the lens. The image of P willbe formed. FIGURE 1.259
(a) 1mm (b) 2 mm
(c) 3 mm (d) 9 mm
cm A B
2 cm 2 cm 106. A plano convex lens fits exactly into a plano concave lens. Their
P plane surfaces are parallel to each other. If the lenses are made of
5 y different materials of refractive indices u, and u, and R is the
30 cm radius of curvature of the curved surface of the lenses, then focal
length of the combination is
R 2R
(a) (b)

FIGURE 1.256 R R
(c) (d)
(a) 0-5 cm above XY
(b) 1cm below XY 2(4 -y) 2
(c) on XY (d) 1:5 cm below XY 107. Choose the correct ray diagram of a thin equiconvex lens which
103. A split lens has two parts separated by y and its focal length is f. is cut as shown in the fig.1.260
An object is placed at a distance 3 f/2 from C as shown. The
distance between the images formed by the two halves is
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

FIGURE 1.260
E
108. If the top of a convex lens is covered with black paper,
FIGURE 1.257 (a) the bottom half of the image will disappear
(b) the top half of the image will disappear
(a) y/2 (b) y (c) the magnification of the image will be reduced to half
(c) 3 y (d) 2 y (d) the intensity of the image will be reduced to half
104. A lens of focal length 20 cm was cut along the diameter into two
109. The layered lens as shown is made of two types of transparent
indentical halves. In the proces, the layer of the lens 2 mm in materials one indicated by horizontal lines and the other by
thickness was lost. Then, the halves were put together to form a
vertical lines. The number of images formed of an object will be
composite lens. A point objectis placed at 30 cm from the lens.
Find the separation between images.

FIGURE 1.258
FIGURE 1.261
(a) 1 mm (b) 2 mm
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 mm (d) 6 mm (c) 3 (d) 6
105. A convex mirror of focal length 10 cm is cut into two halyes and 110. Areal image of an object is formed by a convex lens at
the
placed before an object at a disance of 10 cm as shown in the of an empty beaker. The beaker is now filled with a bottom
fig. 1.259. The separation between images formed by two halves refractive index 1-4to adepth of 7 cm. In order to get theliquid of
image
is again at the bottom, the beaker should be
approximately moved
 is 100 cm. Alens
114. The distance between an object and the screen
produces an image on the screen when placed at either of two
positions 40cm apart. The power of the lens is approximately
(a) 3D (b) 5D
(c) 7D (d) 9 D
a screen. When
115. A convex lens forms a real image 4 cm long on
the object
the lens is shifted to a new position without disturbing which is
the screen
or the screen, again real image is formed on
16 cm long. The length of the object is
(a) 8 cm (b) 10 cm
(c) 12 cm (d) 6 cm
light and a wall. It forms
FIGURE 1.262 116. A lens is placed between a source of
images of areas A, and A, on the wall for its two different
(a) downward by 2 cm (b) upward by 2 cm positions. The area of the source was
(c) downward by 3 cm (d) upward by 3 cm
111. When a pencil of white light which is parallel to principal axis, is (a)
A +A (b)
refracted by a converging lens, then the rays converge on the
principal axis, the focus point being spread out over a short range
along the principal axis. If a screen is put perpendicular to the
principal axis,at the farthest focus point, the image on the screen (c) J4 A, 2

117. In lens displacement method, magnitude of magnifications

is

(a) a sharp white or violet point lenses

obtained are 2 and 0-5. If separation between position of
(b) a sharp red point is 30 cm, then focal length of the lens is
(c) acircular dispersed patch, red at the centre and violet at the (a) 30 cm (b) 20 cm
border (c) 15 cm (d) 10 cm
(d) acircular dispersed patch violet at the centre and red at the 118. In the displacement method , a convex lens is placed in
border. between an object and a screen. If one of the magnification is 3
112. A convex lens and concave miror having equal focal length are and the distance of the lens between the two positions is
24 cm, then the focal length of the lens is
placed at a distance d apart. A source of light is placed at a distance
of 2 ffrom the lens. The separation between lens and mirror is in (a) 10 cm (b) 9 cm
such a way that final image of the source is on the source itself. (c) 6 cm (d) 16/3 cm
The value of d is
119. A luminous object and a screen are at a fixed distance D apart. A
d converging lens of focal length f is placed between the object
and screen. A real image of the object is formed on the screen for
two lens positions if they are separated by a distance d equal to
(a) D(D+4f) (b) JD(D-4f)
(c) 2D(D-4f) () Jo'+4f
120. The distance between an object and its real image formed by a
lens is D. If the magnitude of magnification is m, the focal length
of the lens is
FIGURE 1.263
(m-1) D mD
(b) 4f (a (b) m+1
(a) 3f m
(d) not possible
(c) f (m - l) D mD
system of two lenses of
113. A parallel beam of light is incident on the (c) 2
(d) (m+1)2
should be the m
focal lengths f, = 40cm and f, =- 10 cm. Whatrefraction from 121. A short linear object of length 2 mm lies on the axis of a convex
distance between the two lenses, so that rays after
mirror of focal length 20 cm and distance 20 cm from the mirror.
both lenses pass undeviated?
The length of image is
(a) Imm (b) 2 mm
(c) 0-5 mm (d) 0-25 mm
122. When an obiect is kept at a distance of 30 cm from a concave
mirror, the image is formed at a distance of 10 cm. If the object is
moved with a speed of 9 cm s the speed with which the image
FIGURE 1.264
moves is
(b) 50 cm (a) 0-1 ms-! (b) I ms-!
(a) 10 cm
(d) 40cm (c) 3 ms-! (d) 9 ms-l
(c) 30 cm
 123. Behind a thin converging lens having (a) 60 cm left of AB (b) 32 cm left of AB
both the surfaces of the same radius (c) 12 cm left of AB (d) 60 cm right of AB
10cm, a plane mirror has been placed. 129. An object is placed 1-5 m in front of the curved surface of a
The image of an object at a distance of planoconvex lens whose flat surface is silvered. A real image is
40 cm from the lens is formed at the 0+ formed 300 cm in front of the lens. The focal length of the lens is
sane position. What is the refractive (a) 100 cm (b) 200 cm
index of the lens?
(c) 150 cm (d) 300 cm
(a) 1-5 (b) 5/3
(c) 9/8
130. What is the angle of incidence for an equilateral prism of refractive
(d) 5/4
124. A transparent cylinder has its right FIGURE 1.265 index /3 so that the ray is parallel to the base inside the prism?
half polished so as to act as a mirror. (a) 30° (b) 45°
A paraxial light ray incident from left, (c) 60° (d) either 30 or 60°
that is parallel to the principal axis, 131. A parallel beam of monochromatic light is incident on one face
exits parallel to the incident ray as of an equilateral prism, the angle of incident being 55°. The angle
shown. The refractive index n of the of emergence of the beam from the other face is 46°. The angle of
material of the cylinder is minimum deviation is
(a) 1-2 (b) 1.5 (b) equal to 41
(a) <41o
(c) 1:8 (d) 2-0 FIGURE 1.266
(c) > 41° () >41o
125. Aglass hemisphere of radius Rand of material having refractive 132. The refracting angle of prism is Aand refractive index of material
index 1-5 is silvered on its flat face as shown in fig. I.267. A
small object of height h is located at a distance 2 R from the of prism is cot A The angle of minimum deviation is
2
surface of hemisphere as shown in fig. 1.267. The final image
will form (a) 180°-3 A (b) 180° + 2 A
(c) 90°-A (d) 180 -2 A
133. For an equilateral prism, it is observed that when a ray strikes
grazingly at one face, it emerges grazingly at the other. Its
refractive index will be
2R
(a) (6)
2
(c) 2 (d) Data not sufficient
FIGURE 1.267
134. A prism of refractive index n" and angle A is placed in minimum
(a) at a distance of R from silvered surface, on the right side deviation position. If the angle of minimum deviation is equal to
(b) on the object itself the angle A, then the value of A is
(c) at hemisphere surface
(d) at a distance of 2 R from the slivered surface, on the left side
126. When a thin plano convex lens (u = 15) polished from its plane
surface behave like a concave mirror of focal length 40 cm. The
(a) sin
) (b)

radius of curvature of the lens is n-1 (d) 2sin-1 n'+1

(c) 2sin-!
(a) 10 cm (b) 20 cm 2 4
(c) 30 cm (d) 40 cm 135. The refractive index of material of prism shown in fig. 1.269 is
127. A concave mirror is placed on a horizontal table with its axis
directed vertically upwards. Let P be the pole of the mirror and C
its centre of curvature. A point object is placed at C. It has a real
image, also located at C. If the mirror is now filled with water,
the image will be
(a) real, at C (b) real, located beyond C
(c) virtual, beyond C (d) real and located before C 45°
128. A point object is placed at a distance of 20 cm from a thin
planoconvex lens of focal length 15 cm. If the plane surface is
silvered, the image will form at

FIGURE 1.269
(a) 3/2
(6) 2
(c) J3
20cm
136. A prism of refractive index 2 has an angle of
prism 30°. One
of the refracting surfaces of prism is
B silvered.
incidence i for which the ray retraces its path. Find the angle of
FIGURE 1.268
 144. Acertain prism is found to produce a minimum deviation of 38°.
It produces adeviation of 44° when the angie of incidence is
either 42 or 62°. What is the angle of incidence when it is
undergoing minimum deviation?
(a) 45° (b) 49°
(c) 40° (d) 55°
FIGURE 1.27o
(a) 30° (b) 60P 145. Two prisms of same glass (u =3) are stuck together without
(c) 45° gap as shown. Find the angle of incidence i on the face AC such
(d) 90
137. One of the refracting surface of a prism of that the deviation produced by the combination is minimum
A ray of light incident at angle of 60 angle
3 is silvered.
retraces its path. The
refractive index of the material of prism is 70
(a) 2
(c) 3/2 (d) 2
201
138. A ray of light passes through an equilateral glass prism in such a 60° 40°
manner that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of
emergence and cach of these angles is equal to (3/4) of the angle FIGURE 1.272
of prism. The angle of deviation is
(a) 45° (a) 60 (b) 15°
(b) 70
(c) 39° (d) 30 (c) 30 (d) 45°
139. For a prism kept in air, it is found that for an angle of incidence 146. A ray of light is incident on one refracting face of a prism of
60, the angle of refraction A, angle of deviation and angle of angle 75°. It passes through the prism and is incident on the other
emergence e becomes cqual. Then, the refractive index of the face at critical angle. If the refractive index of the material of the
prism is prism b e ,
then the angle of incidence on the first face is
(a) 1-73 (b) 1-15 (a) 30 (b) 45°
(c) 1:5 (d) 1-33
(c) 60 (d) 75°
140. For the situations shown in fig. 1.271, determine the angle by
which the mirror should be rotated, so that the light ray will retrace 147. Refractive index of a prism is u3 and the angle of prism is
its path after refraction through the prism and reflection from the 60°. The minimum angle of incidence of a ray that will be
mirror transmited through the prism is
(a) 30 (b) 45°
(c) 15° (d) 50
Horizontal 148. Aprism of refracting angle 90° is placed in air. Find the refractive
index of prism so that a ray incident on prism at any value of
Ray angle of incidence is totally reflected from face AC.
4
=15 Vertical plane
miror
FIGURE 1.271
(a) 1° anticlockwise (b) 1° clockwise B
(c) 2° anticlockwise (d) 2° clockwise
FIGURE 1.273
141. A prism has a refractive angle of 60. When placed in the position
of minimum deviation, it produces a deviation of 30°. Then the (a) 4<V2 (b) 4> 1
angle of incidence is
(a) 30° (b) 45° (c) u>2
(c) 15° (d) 60
149, In the fig. 1.274, a slab BCDE is in contact with prism ABC.
142. In a thin prism of glass, (u = 1-5) which of the following relations Find the value of 0, so that light incident normally on face AC
between the angle of minimum deviation öm and angle of does not cross the face BC.
refraction r will be correct?
(a) , =r (b) , = (1-5) r
(c) ,, =2r (d) ô,, = (r2) H=3/2
deviation of 40P in a
143. A prism of refracting angle 60 produces a between them is
difference B
ray for two angles of incidence. The c
u'=6/5
10. Find the angles. D E
(a) 45°, 35° (b) 35° 25°
(d) 60, 70 FIGURE 1.274
(c) 45°, 55°
 (a) 8 > 37 (b) <37° (b) 50 cm
(a) 45 cm
(d) < 53º (c) 55 cm (d) i10 cm
150. A thin prism P, with angle 4° and made from glass of 9. When it isadjusted for
index 1-54 is conmbined with another prism P, made from refractive 153. The magnifying power of a telescope isobjective and the eyepiece
glass parallel rays, the distance between the
of refractive index 1·72 to produce dispersion without lensesare
The angle of prism P, is deviation. is found to be 20 cm. The focal length of
(b) 11 cm, 9 cm
(a) 5:33° (b) 4° (a) 18 cm, 2 cm
(c) 10cm, 10 cm (d) 15 cm, 5 cm
(c) 3° (d) 2-6°
magnification of 30. The focal
151. The respective angless of flint glass prism and a crown glass
prism 154. A compound microscope has a the final image is formed at the
are A and A' and n and n' represent the respective length of the eyepiece is 5 cm. If produced by
refractive
for the mean ray. If these prisms are thin and are to be indices least distance of vision (25 cm), the magnification
to produce dispersion without deviation of the mean ray, combined the objective is
A' should be
then A/ (b) 7-5
(a) 5
n-1 (c) 10 (d) 6
n'-1 refracting telescope
155. A planet is observed by an astronomical an eyepiece of focal
(a) (b)
n'-1 n-1 and
having an objective of focal length 16 m
not correct?
n+1 n'+1 length 2 cm. Then which of the following is
(c) (d) eyepiece is 16-02 m
n'+1 n+1 (a) the distance between the objective and the
152. An astronomical telescope has an eyepiece of focal length 5 cm. (b) the angular magnification of the planet is 800
If the angular magnification in normal adjustment is 10, then the (c) the image of the planet is inverted
distance between the objective and the eyepiece is (d) the objective is smaller than the eyepiece
MCQs Having One Correct Answer Only 10. (d)
5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (c)
9. (d)
I. (b) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (b) 20. (c)
13. (c) 14. (b) 15. (c) 16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (b) 19. ()
11. (d) 12. (a) 30. (b)
22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (d) 25. (c) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (a) 29. (b)
21. (a) 40. (C)
33. (c) 34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (d) 37. (b) 38. (c) 39. (a)
31. (c) 32. (b)
50. (b)
42. (d) 43. (b) 44. (a) 45. (c) 46. (b) 47. (b) 48. (d) 49. (d)
41. (c)
59. (b) 60. (a)
51. (c) 52. (b) 53. (a) 54. (a) 55. (c) 56. (a) 57. (a) 58. (a)
70. (b)
61. (b) 62. (a) 63. (c) 64. (b) 65. (d) 66. (d) 67. (b) 68. (c) 69. (d)
71. (d) 72. (b) 73. (a) 74. (a) 75. (b) 76. (b) 77. (c) 78. (d) 79. (b) 80. (C
81. (c) 82. (c) 83. (c) 84. (c) 85. (a) 86. (d) 89. (b) 90. (d)
87. (b) 88. (d)
91. (d) 92. (c) 93. (a) 94. (c) 95. (c) 96. (b) 97. (b) 99. (b) 100. (b)
98. (c)
101. (c) 102. (d) 103. (c) 104. (d) 105. (c) 106. (a) 107. (c) 108. (d) 109. (b) 110. (a)
111. (c) 112. (b) 113. (c) 114. (b) 115. (a) 116. (c) 117. (b) 118. (b) 119. (b) 120. (d
121. (c) 122. (b) 123. (c) 124. (d) 125. (b) 126. (d) 127. (d) 128. (c) 129. (b) 130. (c)
131. (a) 132. (d) 133. (c) 134. (b) 135. (d) 136. (c) 137. (b) 138. (d) 139. (a) 140. (d
141. (b) 142. (a) 143. (c) 144. (b) 145. (a) 146. (b) 147. (a) 148. (c) 149. (b) 150. (c)
151. (b) 152. (c) 153. (a) 154. (a) 155. (d)