CRASH COURSE

Assignment
SUBJECT: IIT-PHYSICS TOPIC: Geometrical Optics

1. As shown in the figure, a combination of a thin plano concave lens and a thin plano convex lens
is used to image an object placed at infinity. The radius of curvature of both the lenses is 30 cm
and refraction index of the material for both the lenses is 1.75. Both the lenses are placed at
distance of 40 cm from each other. Due to the combination, the image of the object is formed at
distance x = _______ cm, from concave lens

2. When a beam of white light is allowed to pass through convex lens parallel to principal axis, the
different colours of light converge at different point on the principle axis after refraction. This is
called :
(1) Scattering (2) Chromatic aberration
(3) Spherical aberration (4) Polarisation

3. A convex lens of refractive index 1.5 and focal length 18 cm in air is immersed in water. The change
in focal length of the lens will be_____cm.
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(Given refractive index of water = )
3

4. A ray of light is incident from air on a glass plate having thickness 3 cm and refractive index 2.
The angle of incidence of a ray is equal to the critical angle for glass-air interface. The lateral
displacement of the ray when it passes through the plate is _____ × 10–2 cm. (given sin 15° = 0.26)

5. The light rays from an object have been reflected towards an observer from a standard flat mirror,
the image observed by the observer are :-
A. Real B. Erect
C. Smaller in size than object D. Laterally inverted
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) B and D only (2) B and C only (3) A and D only (4) A, C and D only

6. An object is placed on the principal axis of convex lens of focal length 10 cm as shown. A plane
mirror is placed on the other side of lens at a distance of 20 cm. The image produced by the plane
mirror is 5 cm inside the mirror. The distance of the object from the lens is ____ cm.

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7. A person has been using spectacles of power-1.0 dioptre for distant vision and a separate reading
glass of power 2.0 dioptres. What is the least distance of distinct vision for this person :
(1) 10 cm (2) 40 cm (3) 30 cm (4) 50 cm

8. A thin prism P1 with an angle 6° and made of glass of refractive index 1.54 is combined with another
prism P2 made from glass of refractive index 1.72 to produce dispersion without average deviation.
The angle of prism P2 is:
(1) 6° (2) 1.3° (3) 7.8° (4) 4.5°

9. In a medium the speed of light wave decreases to 0.2 times to its speed in free space the ratio of
relative permittivity to the refractive index of the medium is x : 1. The value of x is ______.
(Given speed of light in free space = 3 × 108 ms–1 and the for thr given medium r = 1)

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10. A microscope is focused on an object at the bottom of a bucket. If liquid with refractive index
3
is poured inside the bucket, then microscope have to be raised by 30 cm to focus the object again.
The height of the liquid in the bucket is:
(1) 75 cm (2) 50 cm (3) 18 cm (4) 12 cm

11. A thin cylindrical rod of length 10 cm is placed horizontally on the principle axis of a concave
mirror of focal length 20 cm. The rod is placed in such a way that mid point of the rod is at 40 cm
x
from the pole of mirror. The length of the image formed by the mirror will be cm. The value of
3
x is _____________.

12. Two objects A and B are placed at 15 cm and 25 cm from the pole in front of a concave mirror
having radius of curvature 40 cm. The distance between images formed by the mirror is:
(1) 40 cm (2) 60 cm (3) 160 cm (4) 100 cm

13. A monochromatic light wave with wavelength 1 and frequency 1 in air enters another medium. If
the angle of incidence and angle of refraction at the interface are 45° and 30° respectively, then
the wavelength 2 and frequency 2 of the refracted wave are :
1
(1)  2 =  1 ,  2 = 2 1 (2)  2 = 1, 2 = 1
2
1
(3)  2 = 2 1 ,  2 =  1 (4)  2 =  1 ,  2 = 1
2

14. A pole is vertically submerged in swimming pool, such that it gives length of shadow 2.15 m within
water when sunlight is incident at an angle of 30° with the surface of water. If swimming Is
filled to a height of 1.5 m, then the height of the pole above the water surface in centimeters is
(nw = 4/3)_________.

15. In a reflecting telescope, a secondary mirror is used to :

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16. Two vertical parallel mirrors A and B are separated by 10 cm. A point object O is placed at a
distance of 2 cm from mirror A. The distance of the second nearest image behind mirror A from
the mirror A is ____cm

17. Two transparent media having refractive indices 1.0 and 1.5 are separated by a spherical refracting
surface of radius of curvature 30 cm. The centre of curvature of surface is towards denser medium
and a point object is placed on the principle axis in rarer medium at a distance of 15 cm from the
pole of the surface. The distance of image from the pole of the surface is ____________ cm.

18. An object is placed at a distance of 12 cm in front of a plane mirror. The virtual and erect image
is formed by the mirror. Now the mirror is moved by 4 cm towards the stationary object. The
distance by which the position of image would be shifted, will be:
(1) 4 cm towards mirror (2) 8 cm towards mirror
(3) 8 cm away from mirror (4) 2 cm towards mirror

19. A point object, ‘O’ is placed in front of two thin symmetrical coaxial convex lenses L 1 and L2 with
focal length 24 cm and 9 cm respectively. The distance between two lenses is 10 cm and the
object is placed 6 cm away from lens L1 as shown in the figure. The distance between the object
and the image formed by the system of two lenses is _______ cm

20. The critical angle for a denser-rarer interface is 45°. The speed of light in rarer medium is
3 × 108 ms. The speed of light in the denser medium is:
(1) 5 × 107 m/s (2) 2.12 × 108 m/s
(3) 3.12 × 107m/s (4) 2 × 108m/s

21. The radius of curvature of each surface of a convex lens having refractive index 1.8 is 20 cm. The
lens is now immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.5. The ratio of power of lens in air to its
power in the liquid will be x : 1. The value of x is _____.

22. When one light ray is reflected from a plane mirror with 30° angle of reflection, the angle of
deviation of the ray after reflection is:
(1) 140° (2) 120° (3) 110° (4) 130°

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23. As shown in the figure, a plane mirror is fixed at a height of 50 cm from the bottom of tank
 4
containing water   =  . The height of water in the tank is 8 cm. A small bulb is placed at the
 3

bottom of the water tank. The distance of image of the bulb formed by mirror from the bottom of
the tank is _______ cm.

24. An ice cube has a bubble inside. When viewed from one side the apparent distance of the bubble
is 12 cm. when viewed from the opposite side, the apparent distance of the bubble is observed as
4 cm. If the side of the ice cube is 24 cm, the refractive index of the ice cube is:
4 3 2 6
(1) (2) (3) (4)
3 2 3 5

25. Two convex lenses of focal length 20 cm each are placed coaxially with a separation of 60 cm
between them. The image of the distant object formed by the combination is at _______ cm from
the first lens.

26. A vessel of depth ‘d’ is half filled with oil of refractive index n 1 and the other half is filled with
water of refractive index n2. The apparent depth of this vessel when viewed from above will be-
dn 1n 2 d ( n 1n 2 ) dn 1n2 2d ( n 1 + n 2 )
(1) (2) (3) (4)
(n 1
+ n2 ) 2n 1n 2 2 ( n 1 + n2 ) n 1n2

27. A fish rising vertically upward with a uniform velocity of 8 ms–1, observes that a bird is diving
vertically downward towards the fish with the velocity of 12 ms–1. If the refractive index of water
4
is , then the actual velocity of the diving bird to pick the fish, will be ______ ms–1.
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28. A bi convex lens of focal length 10 cm is cut in two identical parts along a plane perpendicular to
the principal axis. The power of each lens after cut is _________ D.

29. The refractive index of a transparent liquid filled in an equilateral hollow prism is 2 . The angle
of minimum deviation for the liquid will be __________°.

Answer Key
Que. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Ans. 120 2 54 52 1 30 4 4 5 1 32 3 2 50 4 18 30 2 34 2
Que. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Ans. 4 2 98 2 100 3 3 5 30