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The document is a worksheet for Chapter 9 on Light, containing various types of questions including very short answer, short answer, and long answer questions related to the properties of light, reflection, refraction, and lenses. It also includes numerical problems to calculate focal lengths and powers of lenses. The worksheet aims to assess understanding of optical concepts and phenomena associated with light.

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CLASS X Science Worksheet -1

The document is a worksheet for Chapter 9 on Light, containing various types of questions including very short answer, short answer, and long answer questions related to the properties of light, reflection, refraction, and lenses. It also includes numerical problems to calculate focal lengths and powers of lenses. The worksheet aims to assess understanding of optical concepts and phenomena associated with light.

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HAROLD PUBLIC SR.

SEC SCHOOL
WORKSHEET -1
CHAPTER 9
LIGHT

I. Very short answer type questions: [2 marks questions]


1. Why are convex mirror fitted on the side of vehicles?
2. A ray of light travelling in air enters obliquely into water. Does the light ray bend towards
the normal or away from the normal? Why?
3. Name the type of mirror used in the following situations and state reason for your
answer:
a. Headlight of a car.
b. Rear view mirror of a vehicle.
4. One half of a convex lens is covered with a black paper. Will this lens produce a complete
image of the object ?
5. The magnification produced by a plane mirror is +1. What does this mean?
6. If the aperture of a concave mirror is large then what happens to the image?
7. What is meant by aperture of spherical lens?
8. State Snell’s Law.

II. Short answer type questions : [3 mark questions]

9. What is reflection of light? Write down the laws of reflection.


10. Differentiate between reflection and refraction of light.
11. Differentiate between a convex lens and concave lens.
12. Differentiate between a convex mirror and concave mirror.
13. Draw the ray diagrams and make the table for the images formed by the convex and
concave mirror for different position of the objects.
14. Enlist four common phenomena due to refraction of light.
15. An object is situated at a position in between the main focus (F1) and (2F1 ) of a convex
lens. Draw the ray diagram showing the position , size and nature of image.
Or
Draw a ray diagram to show the image formed by a convex lens when the object is placed
between focus F1 and 2F1
16. What is meant by power of a lens? What is its S.I unit? Write its mathematical formula.
III. Long answer type questions: [5 marks]
17. What is light? What is ray of light? Enlist four different phenomena associated with
light.
18. Draw the ray diagrams for image formation by convex lens and concave lens for different
positions of the object.
Or
Tabulate the nature, position, and relative size of the image formed by a convex lens for
various positions of the object.

Numericals

19. The radius of curvature of a spherical mirror is 20 cm. What is its focal length?
20. Find the power of a concave lens of focal length 2m.
21. Light enters from air to glass having refractive index 1.50. What is the speed of the light
in the glass? The speed of light in vaccum is 3X108 ms-1 .
22. A convex lens forms a real and inverted image of a needle at a distance of 50 cm from it.
Where is the needle placed in front of the convex lens, if the image is equal to the size of
the object? Also, find the power of the lens.
23. An object 5 cm in length is held 25 cm away from the converging lens of focal length 10
cm. Draw the ray diagram and find the position, size and nature of the image formed.
24. An object is placed at a distance of 10 cm from a convex mirror of focal length 15 cm.
Find the position and nature of the image.
25. An object of size 7.0 cm is placed at 27 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal length 18
cm. At what distance from the mirror should a screen be placed so that a sharp focused
image can be obtained? Find the size and nature of the image.
26. Find the focal length of a lens of power – 2.0 D. What type of lens is this?
27. Find the focal length of a lens of power + 2.0 D. What type of lens is this?
28. A doctor has prescribed a corrective lens of power + 1.5 D. Find the focal length of the
lens. Is the prescribed lens converging or diverging.

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