PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Practice Sheet

Name: Std: X Date:

Subject: Science Topic: Light - Reflection and Refraction

1. The speed of light in vacuum is _____________

(a) 3×108 km/s
(b) 3×10-8 m/s
(c) 3×108 m/s
(d) 3×10-8 km/s

2. Sujeet places an object at the focus of a convex lens.

The image of the object will form:
(a) at 2F
(b) at focus
(c) between F and 2F
(d) at infinity

3. The angle between an incident ray and the reflecting surface is 42°. What will be
the total angle between the incident ray and the reflected ray?
(a) 42
(b) 55
(c) 84
(d) 96

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4. Rohit cuts a sphere of the radius of 15 cm to make a concave mirror.
The focal length of the mirror will be ____________.
(a) 5.5 cm
(b) 7.5 cm
(c) 15.7 cm
(d) 25.8 cm

5. A student focussed the image of a candle flame on a white screen by placing the
flame at various distances from a convex lens.
He noted his observation as:
Distance of flame Distance of the screen
from the lens (cm) from the lens (cm)
60 20
40 24
30 30
24 40
15 70
From the above table, find the focal length of lens without using lens formula:
(a) 15 cm
(b) 30 cm
(c) 40 cm
(d) 60 cm

6. Rakhi conducts an experiment to produce an image of an object on a screen which

is placed at 20 cm from the lens. She uses a convex lens of focal length 15 cm for
the experiment.
Where should she place the object in order to produce the sharpest image?
(a) 20 cm in front of the lens
(b) 8 cm in front of the lens
(c) 15 cm in front of the lens
(d) 60 cm in front of the lens

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7. Power of a lens is -4D, its focal length is
(a) 4m
(b) -40 m
(c) -0.25 m
(d) -2.5 m

8. The image shows the path of incident rays to a concave mirror.

Where would the reflected rays meet for the image formation to take place?
(a) Between O and F
(b) Beyond C
(c) Between C and F
(d) Behind the mirror

9. The power of a combination of two lenses in contact is + 1.0 D. If the focal length
of one of the lenses of combination is +20.0 cm, the focal length of the other lens
would be:
(a) - 20.0 cm
(b) - 25.0 cm
(c) - 120.0 cm
(d) + 80.0 cm

10. The image shows the path of light travelling through a glass slab.

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 What causes the ray of light to deviate from its original path?
(a) change in the amount of light
(b) change in the direction of wind flow
(c) change in the temperature of the air
(d) change in the density of the medium

For the questions 19 and 22, two statements are given – one labelled Assertion (A)
and the other labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from
the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below:
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of the assertion (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of the assertion (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) (A) is false but (R) is true.

11. Assertion: The convex mirror is used as a rear-view mirror.

Reason: The convex mirror always forms an enlarged image.

12. Assertion: Power of a convex lens is positive.

Reason: A convex lens always forms a virtual image.

13. Assertion: Light travels faster in glass than in air.

Reason: Speed of light in is higher in a rarer medium than a denser medium.

14. Assertion: Mirror formula can be applied to a plane mirror.

Reason: A plane mirror is a spherical mirror of infinite focal length.

15. If an object is placed at the focus of the concave mirror, where is the image
formed?

16. Define the refractive index of the medium.

17. What is the nature of the image formed by a concave mirror if the magnification
produced by the mirror is +3?

18. A concave lens has a focal length of 20 cm. Calculate its power.

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19. The radius of curvature of a spherical mirror is 30 cm. What will be its focal length?

20. Determine the focal length of a convex mirror which produces an image which is
16.0 cm behind the mirror when the object is 32 cm from the mirror.

21. A concave mirror produces three times magnified real image of an object placed at
10 cm in front of it. Where is the image located?

22. The radius of curvature of a convex mirror is 20 cm. The size of the image formed is
half to the size of the object. Find the distances of the object and image.

23. Copy and complete the ray diagram to show the formation of image. Also state the
position, size and nature of image formed.

24. The image of a candle flame formed by a lens is obtained on a screen placed on
the other side of the lens. If the image is three times the size of the flame and the
distance between the lens and image is 80 cm, at what distance should the candle
be placed from the lens?

25. Sudha finds that a sharp image of the windowpane of her science laboratory is
formed at a distance of 15 cm from the lens. She now tries to focus the building
visible to her outside the window instead of the windowpane without disturbing
the lens. In which direction will she move the screen to obtain a sharp image of the
building? What is the approximate focal length of this lens?

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26. A child reads the words of a book with the help of a convex lens keeping it close to
the book. He observes that the words appear enlarged and erect when he gradually
withdraws the lens away from the book. At one position, the words again become
distinctly visible but this time, they are enlarged and inverted. Explain this difference
with the help of a ray diagram for both the cases.

27. In an experiment with a rectangular glass slab, a student observed that a ray of light
is incident at an angle of 55° with the normal on one face of the slab. After refraction
this ray strikes the opposite face of the slab before emerging out into air making an
angle of 40° with the normal. Draw a labelled diagram to show the path of this ray.
What value would you assign to the angle of refraction and angle of emergence?

28. An object is kept at a distance of 18 cm, 20 cm, 22 cm and 30 cm respectively from

a lens of power +5D.
(i) In which case or cases would you get a magnified image?
(ii) Which of the magnified images can be formed on a screen?

29. A student performs an activity to investigating the phenomenon of refraction of

light using a glass slab. During this activity he incident a ray of light from point A as
shown in the figure. He is observed, when a light ray goes from one transparent
medium to another transparent medium; it suffers a change in direction, in the
second medium. The extent of the change in direction that takes place in a given
pair of media expressed in terms of the refractive index. The refractive index is
related to an important physical quantity - the relative speed of light in different
media.

(i) Refractive indices of water, sulphuric acid, glass and carbon disulphide are 1.33, 1.43,
1.53 and 1.63 respectively.

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 In which medium, light will travel the slowest?

(ii) Light enters from air into the glass. The refractive index of the glass is 1.50. The speed
of light in vacuum is 3 × 108 ms −1. What will be the speed of light in glass?

(iii) Why does the refractive index not have a unit, and how does this property impact
the way we understand light's behaviour in different mediums?

30. A student took three concave mirrors of different focal lengths and performed the
experiment to see the image formation by placing an object at different distance
with these mirrors as shown in the following table.
Case No. Object - distance Focal length
I 45 cm 20 cm
II 30 cm 15 cm
III 20 cm 30 cm
Now answer the following questions:
(i) List two properties of the image formed in Case I.
(ii) In which one of the cases given in the table, the mirror will form real image of same
size and why?
(iii) Name the type of mirror used by dentists. Give reason why do they use such type of
mirrors.
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