Very Short Answer Questions

1. Explain power of accommodation of the eye?

A.The ability of the eye lens to adjust its focal length by the help of the ciliary muscles
according to the object distances is called power of accommodation.
2. Write one function of iris in human eye.
A.Controls the size of the pupil.
3.A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond 1.2 m distinctly. Which type
of lens is to be used to restore proper vision? What is the valve of focal length of that
lens?
A.Now, the power
P=1/f​
P=1/1.2
P=0.83D
So, the person suffers from Myopia, the corrective lens will be concave or diverging lens.
Hence, the power is 0.833 D
4. Write about far point and near point of the human eye with normal vision.
A.The farthest point up to which the eye can see objects clearly is called the far point (M)
of the eye. It is ideally infinity for a normal eye.
The point of closest distance at which an object can be seen clearly by the eye is called
the near point (H) of the eye. For a normal eye, the near point is 25 cm, which is called
the least distance of distinct vision of a normal eye.
5. Explain angle of deviation in your own words.
A.Extend incident ray and emergent ray such that they meet at O.
The angle between these two rays is angle of deviation
6. Write the formula to find refractive index of prism.
A.μ=sin2Asin[2(A+D)]
7. Write about dispersion of light
A.When white light is passed through prism, it divides into seven colours (VIBGYOR). The
splitting of white light.into different colours is called dispersion.
8. What happens, if red colour is passed through prism?
When red colour light is sent through prism it does not divide into different colours. It
will emerge as same colour.
9. In the dispersion of white light through prisms, violet colour, deviates more. Why?
A.Voilet colour wavelength is less, so, it deviates more.
10. Why do soap bubbles are colourful sometimes?
A.Due to dispersion we can see different colours on soap bubble.
11. The danger signals along the road are coloured with red. Why?
A.We know among the seven colours of white light, red colour has maximum wavelength.
That is why red colour is least scattered by atmospheric dust and other particles. Hence red
colour is used to indicated any danger sign.
12. List out the material used for observing artificial rainbow in classroom.
A. Metal tray, water, white light,mirror.
13. Explain scattering in your own words
A.The process of re-emission of absorbed light in all directions with different intensities by
atoms or molecules, is called scattering of Light
Short Answer Questions
1. I can comfortably read a book but find a difficulty to read the number on a bus parked 5
m away from me. Name the type of defect of vision that I am suffering from. Which type of
lens should I use to correct my vision?
A.A person with myopia can see nearby objects clearly but cannot see distant objects
distinctly, as if the far point of the eye has shifted from infinity to some particular distance
from the eye. This defect arise due to the maximum focal length of eye lens is less than
2.5cm To correct myopia, the person has to wear spectacles with a concave lens of focal
lengthequal to the distance of far point of the myopic eye.
2. If we increase the distance of an object from the eye, what happens to the image
distance in the eye?
A.The image is formed on the retina even on increasing the distance of an object from
the eye. For this eye lens becomes thinner and its focal length increases as the object is
moved away from the eye.
3. We will not be able to see the things clearly when we come out of a darkroom, why?
A.When we are in the dark room our pupil size is bigger and when we go outside in
bright light, high amount of light enters our eye, due to which our eyes feel the strain.
This is the reason we are unable to see instantaneously.
4. What is the cause for Presbyopia? Name the type of lens used to correct it.
A.It occurs in old age when the ciliary muscles holding the eye lens weaken and the eye
lens loses some of its flexibility.
To correct this type of defect of vision we need bi-focal lenses which are formed using
both concave and convex lenses.The upper part of a bi-focal lens consists of concave
lens facilitating distant vision, and the lower part consists of convex lens facilitating
nearby vision.
5. What happens if ciliary muscles does not function well?
A.If the ciliary muscles of the eye are damaged, the person has blurred vision without
proper focus. . It contracts and relaxes to change the focal length of the lens, allowing
for short-sighted and remote viewing. If the damage persists, the person may lose all
their vision.
6. Like prism, does the white light disperses through glass slat. Why?
A.The dispersion is caused due to the the difference in the angle of deviation for
different colours. In the case of a glass slab, the opposite sides are parallel and therefore
different colors emerge parallel to each other and are seen simultaneously. Therefore,
dispersion doesn't occur in a glass slab.
7. Write the precautions, that should be take, in the experiment, finding the refractive index
of a prism
A.Precautions:
1) Take triangular surface of prism as base.
2) Record the readings without any parallax
8. How the rainbow is formed in the sky?
- Formation of rainbow in sky is a combined effect of refraction, dispersion and total
internal reflection.
- When sunlight falls on water drop from top first it refracts and then dispersed into seven
colours
- All the colours go to second side of water dropand undergo total internal reflection. They
reachto surface of water drop.
- Then each colour is again refracted into air.
- We observe the rainbow when the angle between incoming and outgoing rays is between
400 and 42°
9. Write the reason for the splitting of white light into seven colours, when it passes
through prism.
A.White light is made up of seven bands of colors each having different wavelengths.
Upon passing through a medium, each of the colors travels at different speeds and hence
has different angles of refraction leading to the splitting of the light i.e. dispersion.
10. Sun appears in red colour during sunrise and sunset. Explain reason
A. The light from the sun needs to travel more distance in atmosphere during sunrise and
sunset to reach your eye
- Except red colour light all colours scatter more and vanish. Before they reach you.
- Due to less scattering of red colour, it reaches our eye.
- As a result sum appears red in colour during sunrise and sunset
11. Why is that sky appears white sometimes?
A.Different colors are scattered by different amounts. However, at noon light has to travel
a relatively short distance to reach earth and therefore all colors are scattered almost
equally and therefore the sky appears mostly white.
12. In which colours the sky is visible to austronauts?
A.The sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut because there is no atmosphere in
the outer space that can scatter the sunlight. As the sunlight is not scattered, no scattered
light reach the eyes of the astronauts and the sky appears black to them.
13. Explain the formation of artificial rainbow with an activity
1) Take a metal plate and fill 3/4 of it with water
2) Keep a plane mirror in tray such that its surface makes some angle with water
3) Send white light onto the mirror through water.
4) we can observe a rainbow on a white board which kept at some height from this
arrangement.
 Essay Type Questions
1. FOR 1 ST QUESTION WRITE THE Hypermetropic Eye TOTAL TOPIC AND RIADRAMS
GIVEN IN NOTES PAGE NO. 32 AND 33.
2. FOR 2ND QUESTION WRITE THE MYOPIA Eye TOTAL TOPIC AND RIADRAMS GIVEN IN NOTES
PAGE NO 32.
3. FOR THIS WE NEED TO WRITE PRISM EXPERIMENT GIVEN IN NOTES PAGE NO. 34 and 35.

4. FOR THIS WE NEED TO WRITE formation of rainbow GIVEN IN NOTES PAGE NO. 36
and diagram.