1.Name the component of white light that has the greatest wavelength.

2. A cube of edge 6 cm is placed over a printed page. At what distance from the top

surface of cube will the letters appear when seen from above?

Refractive index of glass is 1.5

3. A 2 cm high object is placed at a distance of 32 cm from a concave mirror. The

image is real, inverted and 3 cm in size. Find the focal length of the mirror and

the position where the image is formed?

4. A child while playing with his father‟s spectacles burnt a hole in a piece of paper

by focusing a small image of the sun on it.

(i) What defect of vision his father is suffering from?

(ii) Write two causes for this defect?

(iii) Draw a ray diagram to show image formation by the defective eye?

(iv) Draw a ray diagram showing corrected eye using proper lens.

5. Explain the formation of rainbow in the sky with the help of a diagram. List the

three phenomena involved in proper sequence.

6. (i) Rohit claims to have obtained an image twice the size of object with a

concave lens. Is he correct? Give reason for your answer.

(ii) Where should an object be placed in case of a convex lens to form an image

of same size as of the object? Show with the help of ray diagram the

position and the nature of the image formed.

(iii) With the help of ray diagram, illustrate the change in position, nature and

size of the image formed if the convex lens in case of (ii) is replaced by

concave lens of same focal length.

7. (i) Which property of concave mirror is utilized for using them as shaving

mirrors?
(ii) Light passes through a rectangular glass slab and through a triangular glass

prism. Using proper ray diagram, explain in what way does the direction of

the two emergent beams differs with respect to the incident beam of light.

(iii)A concave lens has a focal length of 50 cm Calculate its power.

8. In finding the focal length of a distant object by concave mirror, you are required

to draw the ray diagram of nature.

9. While performing the experiment to trace the path of a ray of light passing

through a rectangular glass slab, four students labeled their ray diagrams in the

manner shown below. The correct labeling has been done by students.

10. A convex lens forms a virtual image when an object is placed at a distance of

20cm from it.

The focal length

(a) f = 40 cm

(b) f = 20 cm

(c) f > 20 cm

(d) f < 20 cm

11. A student has to perform an experiment on tracing the path of a ray of light

passing through a rectangular glass slab for three different angles of incidence.

Two of his friends suggest the following options to him:

(A) Draw the incident rays corresponding to 20, 50 and 70 as angles of

incidence and fix the two pins on the incident ray just 2 cm apart.

(B) Draw the incident rays corresponding to 30, 45 and 60 as the angles of

incidence and fix two pins on the incident rays nearly 8 cm apart. Which

is the better option he should follow? Give reason in support of your answer.

12. A student obtained a sharp image of a lighted candle on a screen using a convex
lens. Now he wants to focus a distant lamp on a far away electric pole. In which

direction should the lens be move for this purpose with respect to the screen, to

get a sharp image on the screen? Justify your answer.

13. When a concave mirror is placed facing the Sun, the Sun’s rays converge to a point

10 cm from the mirror. Now, if you place a 2 cm long candles flame 20 cm away on

the principal axis of the mirror, where would you place a screen to obtain the image

of the candle? What would see the size of the image? Draw a ray diagram to justify

your answer.

14. A student has to project a three times magnified image of a candle flame on a wall.

Name the type of the lens (converging/ diverging) required for the purpose. It the

candle flame is at a distance of 6 m from the wall, find the focal length of the lens.

15. A. Explain the formation of rainbow in the sky with the help of a diagram. List the

three phenomena of light involved. Which colour – violet or red appears at top

of the rainbow?

B. What is the difference in colours of the sun observed during sunrise/sunset and

noon? Give explanation for each.

16. (i) Which property of concave mirror is utilized for using them as shaving mirrors?

(ii) Light passes through a rectangular glass slab and through a triangular glass

prism. Using proper ray diagram, explain in what way does the direction of the

two emergent beams differs with respect to the incident beam of light.

(iii) A concave lens has a focal length of 50 cm Calculate its power.

17. Four students A,B,C and D did their experiment of finding the focal length of convex

lens by obtaining image of a distant object as follows:

Student A used the window grill in the laboratory as the object and a white

paper sheet held in hand as the screen.

Student B used a distant tree in the shade and a white thick held in a stand

as the screen.

Student C used a well illuminated laboratory window grill as the object and a

white paper sheet held in a stand as the screen.

Student D used a well illuminated distant tree as the object and a white thick

board held in a stand as the screen.

Which student has used the correct method for performing experiment out of the

above setups?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D

In the setup shown below, a clear image of a distant object is obtained on the

screen. The focal length of the concave mirror is:

(a) 11.4 cm (b) 9.4 cm (c) 9.8cm (d) 9.9cm

18. In the experiment on refraction of light through a rectangular glass slab done by four

students A, B, C and D, the following observations were made:

(A) The emergent ray moves towards the normal after second refraction through

glass slab with i = e

(B) The emergent ray moves away from the normal after second refraction through

glass slab i < e

(C ) For any angle of incidence, always I ˃ e, always.

(d) The emergent ray moves away from normal after second refraction through glass

slab with i = e

The student who has made the correct observation is:

(a) (A) (b) (B) (c ) (C ) (d) (D)

19. To trace the path of ray of light through the triangular glass prism, a student

observes that the emergent ray has

(a) bent away from the base of the prism.

(b) bent towards the base of the prism.

(c ) moved parallel to the direction of incident ray.

(d) gone perpendicular to incident ray.

20. An object of height 1.2m is placed before a concave mirror of focal length 20cm so

that a real image is formed at a distance of 60cm from it. Find the position of an

object. What will be the height of the image formed?

21. Rohit focused the image of a candle flame on a white screen using a convex lens.

He noted down the position of the candle , screen and lens as under :

Position of candle = 26.0 cm

Position of convex lens = 50.0 cm

Position of screen = 74.0 cm

i) What is the focal length of the convex lens?

ii) Where will the image be formed if he shifts the candle towards the lens at a

position of 38 cm?

iii) Draw a ray diagram to show the formation of the image in case (ii) as said

above?

22. Noopur needs a lens of power -4.5D for correction of her vision.

a) What kind of defect in vision is she suffering from?

b) What is the focal length and nature of the corrective lens?

c) Draw ray diagrams showing the (a) defected eye and (b) correction for this

defect.

d) What are the causes of this defect?

23. Draw a path of light ray passing through a prism. Label angle of incidence and

angle of deviation in the ray diagram

24. A ray of light enters into benzene from air. If the refractive index of benzene is 1.50, by what percent
does the speed of light reduce on entering the benzene?

OR

For the same angle of incidence in media A,B and C, the angles of refraction are 20,30 and 40

respectively. In which medium will the velocity of light be maximum? Give reason in support of your
answer.

25. The image of an object formed by a mirror is real, inverted and is of magnification -1. If the image is
at the distance of 30 cm from the mirror, where is the object placed? Find the position of the image if
the object is now moved 20 cm towards the mirror. What is the nature of the image obtained? Justify
your answer with the help of ray diagram.

OR

What is meant by power of a lens? You have three lenses L1, L2 and L3 of powers +10D, +5D and -10D
respectively. State the nature and focal length of each lens. Explain which of the three lenses will form a
virtual and magnifiedimage of an object placed at 15 cm from the lens. Draw the ray diagram in support
of your answer.

26. Consider the path of a ray of light passing through a rectangular glass slab for different angles of
incidence.

(i)Which one is greater: angle of incidence or angle of refraction?

(ii) What happens to the emergent angle on increasingb the incident angle at air-glass interface?

(iii) State the conditions when no bending occurs.

OR

Sunita takes a mirror which is depressed at the centre and mounts it on a mirror stand. An erect and
enlarged image of her face is formed. She places the mirror on a stand along a meter scale at 15 cm
mark. In front of this mirror, she mounts a white screen and moves it back and forth along the meter
scale till a sharp, welldefined inverted image of a distant tree is formed on the screen at 35 cm mark.

(i) Name the mirror and find its focal length.

(ii) Why does Sunita get sharp image of the distant building at 35 cm mark?

27. It is desired to obtain an erect image of an object, using concave mirror of focal length of 12 cm.

(i) What should be the range of the object distance in the above case?

(ii) Will the image be smaller or larger than the object? Draw a ray diagram to show the
formation of image in this case.

(iii) Where will the image of this object be, if it is placed 24 cm in front of the mirror?

28. In the figure given below, a narrow beam of white light is shown to pass through a

triangular glass prism. After passing through the prism, it produces a spectrum XY on the

screen.

(i) Name the phenomenon.

(ii) State the colours seen at X and Y.

(iii)Why do different colours of white light bend at different angles through a prism?

OR

(i) What is visible spectrum?

(ii) Why is red used as the stopping light at traffic signals?

(iii)Two triangular glass prisms are kept together connected through their rectangular

side. A light beam is passed through one side of the combination. Will there be any

dispersion? Justify your answer.

29. (i) A lens produces a magnification of -0.5. Is this a converging or diverging lens? If

the focal length of the lens is 6 cm, draw a ray diagram showing the image formation

in this case.

(ii) A girl was playing with a thin beam of light from a laser torch by directing it

from different directions on a convex lens held vertically. She was surprised to see

that in a particular direction, the beam of light continues to move along the same

direction after passing through the lens. State the reason for her observation. Draw a

ray diagram to support your answer.

OR

(i) On entering in a medium from air, the speed of light becomes half of its value in

air. Find the refractive index of that medium with respect to air?
(ii) A glass slab made of a material of refractive index n1 is kept in a medium of

refractive index n2.

A light ray is incident on the slab. Draw the path of the rays of light emerging from

the glass slab, if (i) n1> n2 (ii) n1 = n2 (iii) n1< n2

30. Why does the Sun appear white at noon?

31. Both a spherical mirror and a thin spherical lens have a focal length of (-)15

cm. What type of mirror and lens are these?

32. The image formed by a concave mirror is observed to be real, inverted and

larger than the object. Where is the object placed?

OR

Name the part of a lens through which a ray of light passes without suffering

any deviation.

33. (i) Based on the diagram shown, what kind of lenses would Sumati need to make

the telescope?

a) Concave lenses

b) Convex lenses

c) Bifocal lenses

d) Flat lenses

(ii) If the powers of the lenses L1 and L2 are in the ratio of 4:1, what would be the

ratio of the focal length of L1 and L2?

a) 4:1

b) 1:4

c) 2:1

d) 1:1

(iii) What is the formula for magnification obtained with a lens?

a) Ratio of height of image to height of object

b) Double the focal length.

c) Inverse of the radius of curvature.

d) Inverse of the object distance

(iv) Sumati did some preliminary experiment with the lenses and found out that the

magnification of the eyepiece (L2) is 3. If in her experiment with L2 she found an image at 24cm from the
lens, at what distance did she put the object?

a) 72 cm

b) 12 cm

c) 8 cm

d) 6 cm

(v) Sumati bought not-so-thick lenses for the telescope and polished them. What advantages, if any,
would she have with her choice of lenses?

a) She will not have any advantage as even thicker lenses would give

clearer images.

b) Thicker lenses would have made the telescope easier to handle.

c) Not-so-thick lenses would not make the telescope very heavy and also

allow considerable amount of light to pass.

d) Not-so-thick lenses will give her more magnification

34. A student observes the above phenomenon in the lab as a white light passes

through a prism. Among many other colours, he observed the position of the

two colours Red and Violet.

What is the phenomenon called? What is the reason for the violet light to bend

more than the red light?

35. Which diagram shows image formation of an object on a screen by a converging lens?

36. Which of the following can make a parallel beam of light when light from a point source is
incident on it?

A. Concave mirror as well as convex lens.

B. Convex mirror as well as concave lens.

C. Two plane mirrors placed at 90° to each others.

D. Concave mirror as well as concave lens.

37. Consider these indices of refraction: glass: 1.52; air: 1.0003; water: 1.333. Based on the

refractive indices of three materials, arrange the speed of light through them in decreasing order.

A. The speed of light in water > the speed of light in air > the speed of light in glass.

B. The speed of light in glass > the speed of light in water > the speed of light in air.

C. The speed of light in air > the speed of light in water > the speed of light in glass.

D. The speed of light in glass > the speed of light in air > the speed of light in water.

38. If a beam of red light and a beam of violet light are incident at the same angle on the inclined surface
of a prism from air medium and produce angles of refraction r and v respectively, which of the following
is correct?

A. r = v

B. r > v

C. r = 1/v

D. r < v

39. Examine the above figure and state which of the following option is correct?

[one small box in the figure is equal to 1 cm]

A. The mirror has a focal length of -6 cm and will produce an image of magnification +1.

B. The mirror has a focal length of -3 cm and will produce an image of magnification -1.

C. The mirror has a focal length of -3 cm and will produce an image of magnification +1.

D. The mirror has a focal length of -6 cm and will produce an image of magnification -1.

40. The angle of incidence from air to glass at the point O on the hemispherical glass slab is.

A. 45°
B. 0°

C. 90°

D. 180

41. Assertion: Sky appears blue in the day time.

Reason: White light is composed of seven colours

42. If the power of a lens is - 4.0 D, then it means that the lens is a

A. concave lens of focal length -50 m

B. convex lens of focal length +50 cm

C. concave lens of focal length -25 cm

D. convex lens of focal length -25 m

43. Rays from Sun converge at a point 15 cm in front of a concave mirror. Where should an

object be placed so that size of its image is equal to the size of the object?

A. 30 cm in front of the mirror

B. 15 cm in front of the mirror

C. Between 15 cm and 30 cm in front of the mirror

D. More than 30 cm in front of the mirror

44. If the real image of a candle flame formed by a lens is three times the size of the flame and the
distance between lens and image is 80 cm, at what distance should the candle be placed from the lens?

A. -80cm

B. -40 cm

C. -40/3 cm

D. -80/3 cm

While looking at the above diagram, Nalini concluded the followingi. the image of the object will be a
virtual one.

ii. the reflected ray will travel along the same path as the incident ray but in opposite

direction.
iii. the image of the object will be inverted.

iv. this is a concave mirror and hence the focal length will be negative.

Which one of the above statements are correct?

A. i and ii

B. i and iii

C. ii, iii and iv

D. i, ii, iii and iv

45.In the above diagram light is travelling through different media. It is noted by a scientist

that ∠1= ∠3= ∠4 but ∠2 <∠1. Which of the following statement would be correct?

A. Medium 1 is the denser than medium 3 but it’s density is equal to medium 2.

B. Medium 2 is the rarest medium.

C. Medium 3 is denser than medium 1.

D. Medium 1 and 3 are essentially the same medium, but medium 2 is denser than 1 and 3.

46. The refractive index of flint glass is 1.65 and that for alcohol is 1.36 with respect to air.

What is the refractive index of the flint glass with respect to alcohol ?

A. 0.82

B. 1.21

C. 1.11

D. 1.01

47. The above lens has a focal length of 10 cm. The object of height 2 mm is placed at a

distance of 5 cm from the pole. Find the height of the image.

A. 4 cm

B. 6.67 mm

C. 4 mm

D. 3.33 mm
48. Which of the following steps can be followed for making the apparatus air tight?

i. placing the plants on glass plate

ii. using a suction pump.

iii. applying aseline to seal the bottom of jar.

iv. creating vacuum

A. i and ii

B. ii. and iii

C. i. and iii

D. ii. and iv

49. What could be the ‘X’ that she placed inside the box to make the rays behave as shown?

A. a converging lens

B. a parallel-sided glass block

C. a plane mirror

D. a triangular pris

50. She measured the angles of incidence for both the rays on the left side of the box to be

48.6.She knew the refractive index of the material ‘X’ inside the box was 1.5. What will

be the approximate value of angle of refraction?

A. 45

B. 40

C. 30

D. 60

(use the value: sin 48.60 = 0.75)

51. Her friend noted the following observations from this demonstration:

i. Glass is optically rarer than air.

ii. Air and glass allow light to pass through them with the same velocity.
iii. Air is optically rarer than glass.

iv. Speed of light through a denser medium is faster than that of a rarer medium.

v. The ratio: sin of angle of incidence in the first medium to the ratio of sin of angle
of

refraction in the second medium, gives the refractive index of the second material

with respect to the first one.

Which one of the combination of the above statements given below is correct.

A. ii, iv and v are correct.

B. iii and iv are correct.

C. i, iv and v are correct.

D. iii and v are correct

52. If the object inside the box was made of a material with a refractive index less
than 1.5

then the

A. lateral shift of the rays would have been less.

B. lateral shift of the rays would have been more.

C. lateral shift of the rays would remain the same as before.

D. there is not enough information to comment on any of the above statements

53. Rohit wants to have an erect image of an object using a converging mirror of
focal

length 40 cm.

(a) Specify the range of distance where the object can be placed in front of the

mirror. Justify.

(b) Draw a ray diagram to show image formation in this case.

(c) State one use of the mirror based on the above kind of image formation.

54. (a) A lens of focal length 5 cm is being used by Debashree in the laboratory as
a
magnifying glass. Her least distance of distinct vision is 25 cm.

(i) What is the magnification obtained by using the glass?

(ii) She keeps a book at a distance 10 cm from her eyes and tries to read. She is

unable to read. What is the reason for this?

55. (a) Based on the text and data given in the above paragraph, what kind of lens

must the slide projector have?

(b) If v is the symbol used for image distance and u for object distance then with
one reason state what will be the sign for v/u in the given case?

(c) A slide projector has a convex lens with a focal length of 20 cm. The slide

is placed upside down 21 cm from the lens. How far away should the screen

be placed from the slide projector’s lens so that the slide is in focus?

OR

(c)When a slide is placed 15 cm behind the lens in the projector, an image is

formed 3 m in front of the lens. If the focal length of the lens is 14 cm,draw

a ray diagram to show image formation. (not to scale).

56. An object is placed in front of a convex mirror. Its image is formed :

a) at a distance equal to the object distance in front of the mirror.

b) at twice the distance of the object in front of the mirror.

c) half the distance of the object in front of the mirror.

d) behind the mirror and it’s position varies according to the object distance.

57. When light enters the atmosphere it strikes on extremely fine particles, which
deflect the

rays of light in all possible directions, This is due to -

a) reflection of light

b) atmospheric refraction

c) scattering of light

d) dispersion of light
58. (i) Explain why the refractive index of any material with respect to air is
always greater 1.

(ii) In the figure below a light ray travels from air into the semi-circular plastic
block. Give

a reason why the ray does not deviate at the semi-circular boundary of the plastic

block.

(iii)Complete the ray diagram of the above scenario when the light ray comes out
of the

plastic block from the top flat end.

59. The above image shows a thin lens of focal length 5m.

(i) What is the kind of lens shown in the above figure?

(ii) If a real inverted image is to be formed by this lens at a distance of 7m from the
optical

centre, then show with calculation where should the object be placed?

(iii) Draw a neatly labelled diagram of the image formation mentioned in (ii)

OR

A 10 cm long pencil is placed 5 cm in front of a concave mirror having a radius of

curvature

of 40 cm

60. In the following cases, a ray is incident on a concave mirror. In which case is
the angle of incidence equal to zero?

A. A ray parallel to the principal axis.

B. A ray passing through the centre of curvature and incident obliquely.

C. A ray passing through the principal focus and incident obliquely.

D. A ray incident obliquely to the principal axis, at the pole of the mirror.

61. Assertion (A): A convex mirror always forms an image behind it and the image

formed is virtual.

Reason (R): According to the sign convention, the focal length of a convex
mirror is positive.

62. The above figure shows the formation of an image by a lens shown by a thick

line.

Analyse the figure and answer the following questions.

A. What is the type of lens used?

B. What is the nature of the image?

C. If the image is formed at a distance of 30 cm from the lens and the

image is twice the size of the object, then where is the object placed?

A. The lens is a convex lens.

B. The image is virtual.

C. Magnification for lens = 2

v = -30cm

u = -15cm

OR