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Plane Mirror
1. A plane mirror makes an angle of 30° with horizontal. If a vertical ray strikes the mirror, find the angle between
mirror and reflected ray
(A) 30° (B) 45° (C) 60° (D) 90°
2. A ray of light makes an angle of 10° with the horizontal and strikes a plane
mirror which is inclined at an angle  to the horizontal. The angle a for which
the reflected ray becomes vertical is
(A) 40° (B) 30°
(C) 60° (D) 50°
3. A point source has been placed as shown in the figure. What is the length on the screen that will receive
reflected light from the mirror ?

(A) 2H (B) 3H (C) H (D) None

4. A man of height H is standing in front of a mirror, which has been fixed on the ground. What length of his
body can the man see in the mirror ? The length of the mirror is H/2. (Neglect seperation between eyes
and head of men)

H2
1
(A) H (B)
(H 2 L2 ) 2

2H 2
(C) zero (D)
L
5. A plane mirror is placed at origin parallel to y-axis, facing the positive x-axis. An object starts from (2, 0,
0) with a velocity of (2iˆ 2 ˆj ) m/s. The relative velocity of image with respect to object is along
(A) positive x-axis (B) negative x-axis (C) positive y-axis (D) negative y-aixs

6. Two bodies A and B are moving towards a plane mirror with speeds vA and vB respectively as shown in the
figure. The speed of image of A respect to the body B is
(A) vA + vB

(B) | v A vB |
 

(C) vA2 vB2

(D) vA2 vB2

7. A ray of light is incident on the plane mirror at rest The mirror starts turning at a uniform acceleration of
1
2 rad/s2 about an axis in plane of mirror . The reflected ray, at the end of s must have turned through
4
(A) 90° (B) 45° (C) 22.5° (D) 11.25°

8. A person is in a room whose ceiling and two adjacent walls are mirrors. How many images are formed
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8

9. Two plane mirrors are placed as shown in the figure and a point object 'O' is placed at the origin.Find how
many images will be formed.

10. There is a point object and a plane mirror. If the mirror is moved by 2 cm away from the object find the
distance (in cm) which the image will move.

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Spherical Mirror
1. The distance of a real object from the pole of a concave mirror is equal to its radius of curvature. The
image must be:
(A) real (B) inverted (C) same sized (D) erect
2. In the figure shown, the image of a real object is formed at point I. AB is the principal axis of the mirror.
The mirror must be :
(A) concave & placed towards right I
(B) concave & placed towards left of I
(C) convex and placed towards right of I
(D) convex & placed towards left of I
3. A straight line joining the object point and image point is always perpendicular to the mirror
(A) if mirror is plane only (B) if mirror is concave only
(C) if mirror is convex only (D) irrespective of the type of mirror.
4. A parallel beam of light ray parallel to the X-axis is incident on a parabolic
reflecting surface x = 2by2 as shown in the figure. After reflecting it passes
through focal point F. The focal length of the reflecting surface is :
1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these
8b 4b b

5. A square ABCD of side 1mm is kept at distance 15 cm infront of the

concave mirror as shown in the figure. The focal length of the mirror is
10 cm. The length of the perimeter of its image will be(nearly):
(A) 8 mm (B) 2 mm
(C) 12 mm (D) 6 mm
6. A point object is placed on the principal axis at 60 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal length 40
cm on the principal axis. If the object is moved with a velocity of 10 cm/s along the principal axis, then
the velocity (only magnitude) of image is
(A) 20 cm/s (B) 30 cm/s (C) 40 cm/s (D) 60 cm/s
7. Select a graph between 'v' and `u' for a concave mirror.

8. The radius of curvature of a convex spherical mirror is 1.2 m. An object of height 1.2 cm is placed in
front of mirror, if the distance between its virtual image and the mirror is 0.35 m? What is the height
(in mm) of the image?

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Refraction From Plane Surface
1. When a ray of light of frequency 6×1014 Hz travels from water of refractive index 4/3 to glass of refractive
index 8/5, its
(A) frequency decreases by a factor of 5/6 (B) speed decreases by a factor of 5/6
(C) wavelength increases by a factor of 6/5 (D) speed increases by a factor of 6/5

2. A ray of light passes from vacuum into a medium of refractive index µ. If the angle of incidence is twice the
angle refraction, then the angle of incidence is
(A) cos–1(µ/2) (B) sin–1(µ/2) (C) 2 cos–1(µ/2) (D) 2sin–1(µ/2)

3. A ray R1 is incident on the plane surface of the glass slab (kept in air) of refractive index 2 at an angle of
incidence equal to the critical angle for this air glass system. The refracted ray R2 undergoes partial reflection
and refraction at the other surface. The angle between reflected ray R3 and the refracted ray R4 at that
surface is :

(A) 45° (B) 135° (C) 105° (D) 75º

4. Consider the situation shown in figure. Water (µ = 4/3) is filled in a beaker
upto a height of 10 cm. A plane mirror is fixed at a height of 5 cm from the
surface of water. Distance of image from the mirror after reflection from it
of an object 0 at the bottom of the beaker is

(A) 15 cm (B) 12.5 cm (C) 7.5 cm (D) 10 cm

5. A beam of light is converging towards a point on the screen. If a plane parallel plate of glass of refractive
index pi. and thickness t is introduced in the path of the beam, the convergent point is shifted

1 1 1 1
(A) t 1 away (B) t 1 nearer (C) t 1 away (D) t 1 nearer
µ µ µ µ

6. Locate the image of the point P as seen by the eye in the figure.
(A) 0.9 cm below P
(B) 0.8 cm above P
(C) 0.7 cm above P
(D) 0.9 cm above P
7. The critical angle of light going from medium A to medium B is . The speed of light in medium A is v. The
speed of light in medium B is:
v
(A) (B) v sin  (C) v cot  (D) v tan 
sin

8. A ray incident at a point as an angle of incidence of 60° enters a glass sphere of R.I. n = 3 and is reflected
and refracted at the farther surface of the sphere. The angle between the reflected and refracted rays at
this surface is 10 X (in degrees), then find the value of X

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Refraction through curved surface
1. There is a small black dot at the centre C of a solid glass sphere of refractive index µ. When seen from
outside, the dot will appear to be located:
(A) away from C fro all values of µ (B) at C for att values of µ

(C) at C for µ = 1.5, but away from C for µ 1.5 (D) at C only for 2 µ 1.5.

2. A transparent sphere of radius R and refractive index µ is kept in air. At what distance from the surface
of the sphere should a point object be placed so as to form a real image at the same distance from the
other side of the sphere?

R R R
(A) (B) µR (C) (D)
µ µ 1 µ 1
3. In the given figure a piano-concave lens is placed on a paper on which a flower is drawn. How far above
its actual position does the flower appear to be ?

(A) 10 cm (B) 15 cm (C) 50 cm (D) none of these

4. There is a small air bubble inside a glass sphere (µ = 1.5) of radius 5 cm. The bubble is at 'O' at 7.5
cm below the surface of the glass. The sphere 4 is placed inside water (µ = 4/3 ) such that the top surface
of glass is 10 cm below the surface of water. The bubble is viewed normally from air. Then the apparent
depth of the bubble is
observer

10cm

glass
C
O
water
27 25 31 23
(A) cm (B) cm (C) cm (D) cm
2 2 2 2
5. An object is placed 10 cm away from a glass piece (n = 1.5) of length 20 cm bound by spherical surfaces
of radii of curvature 10 cm. Then the position of final image formed after two refractions at the spherical
surfaces.

(A) 50 cm left of B (B) 40 cm right of B (C) 50 cm right of B (D) 60 cm right of B

6. A concave mirror of radius 40 cm lies on a horizontal table and water is filled in it up to a height of 5.00
cm. A small dust particle floats on the water surface at a point P vertically above the point of contact
a
of the mirror with the table. The image of the dust particle as seen from a point directly above it is 8 cm.
4
Find the value of a. [Use refractive index of water is 1.33.]

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Lens
1. An object is placed in front of a thin convex lens of focal length 30cm and a plane mirror is placed 15
cm behind then lens. If the final image of the object coincides with the object, the distance of the object
from the lens is
(A) 60 cm (B) 30 cm (C) 15 cm (D) 25 cm

2. A 2.5 dioptre lens forms a virtual image which is 4 times the object placed perpendicularly on the principal
axis of the lens. Then the required distance of the object from the lens is
(A) 35 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 30 cm (D) 25 cm

3. From the figure shown establish a relation among, µ1, µ2, µ3.

(A) µ3 > µ2 > µ1 (B) µ3 < µ2 < µ1

(C) µ2 > µ3 ; µ3 = µ1 (D) µ2 > µ1 ; µ3 = µ2

4. The minimum distance between a real object and its real image formed by a thin convex lens of focal
length f is
(A) 4f (B) 2f (C) f (D) f/2

5. How many image are formed by the lens shown, if an object is kept on its axis-
µ1 µ2
(A) one (B) two
(C) three (D) four

6. A convex lens of focal length 10 cm is painted black at the middle portion

as shown in figure. An object is placed at a distance of 20 cm from the
lens. Then-
(A) only one image will be formed by the lens
(B) the distance between the two images formed by such a lens is 6 mm
(C) the distance between the images is 4 mm
(D) the distance between the images is 2 mm

7. A point object is kept at the first focus of a convex lens. If the lens
starts moving towards right with a constant velocity, the image will
(A) always move towards right
(B) always move towards left
(C) first move towards right & then towards left.
(D) first move towards left & then towards right.

8. A point object is placed at a distance of 15 cm from a convex lens. The image is formed on the other
side at a distance of 30 cm from the lens. When a concave lens is placed in contact with the convex
lens, the image shifts away further by 30 cm. The focal lengths of the convex lens is
(A) 10 cm (B) 15 cm (C) 20 cm (D) 25 cm
9. Two planoconvex lenses each of focal length 10 cm & refractive index 3/2 are placed as shown. In the
space left, water (R.I = 4/3) is filled. The whole arrangement is in air. The optical power of the system
is (in diopters) :

(A) 6.67 (B) – 6.67 (C) 33.3 (D) 20

10. A converging lens of focal length 15 cm and a converging mirror of focal length 20 cm are placed with
their principal axes coinciding. A point source S is placed on the principal axis at a distance of 12 cm
from the lens on the other side. It is found that the final beam of light comes out parallel to the principal
axis. The separation between the mirror and the lens is 10X (in cm) .Find X.

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