ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS COMPLETELY.

TIME IS 3h30min
1. An object is placed at 10 cm in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 15 cm. The position
of the image is:(a) 15 cm (b) 30 cm (c) 25 cm (d) 5 cm.
2. Assertion (A): A convex mirror cannot form real images. ( T)
Reason (R): Convex mirror converges the parallel rays that are incident on it. (F)
3. For which of the following media, with respect to air, the value of critical angle is maximum?
(a) Crown glass (b) Flint glass (c) Water (d) Diamond
4. A concave mirror for face viewing has focal length of 0.4m. The distance at which you hold the
mirror from your face in order to see your image upright with a magnification of 5 is
a. 0.32 m b. 0.24m c. 1.60m d. 0.16m.
5. In Young’s double slit experiment, the fringe width is 1. [Link] the entire arrangement is placed in
water of refractive index 4/3 , then the fringe width becomes (in mm)
a. 1.6 b. 0.9 c. 4.8 d. 1.
6. Assertion: When a charged particle moves in a circular path, it produces electromagnetic wave. (T)
Reason; Charged particle has acceleration. (T)
7. The diffraction effect can be observed in (A) sound waves only (B) light waves only (C) ultrasonic
waves only (D) sound waves as well as light waves.
Diffraction is seen with longer wavelengths.
8. A ray of light is incident on an equilateral prism at an angle 3/4 th of the angle of the prism. If the ray
passes symmetrically through the prism, find the (a) angle of minimum deviation, and (b) refractive
index of the material of the prism.

9. Which of the following statement is true for the radio waves and the gamma rays? (A) The energy of
gamma rays is lesser than that of the radio waves. (B) The frequency of the radio waves is higher
than that of gamma rays. (C) The radio waves and the gamma rays have the same energy. (D) The
energy of radio waves is lesser than that of the gamma rays.
10. A tank is filled with water to a height of 12.5 cm. The apparent depth of a needle lying at the bottom
of the tank is measured by a microscope to be 9.4 cm. What is the refractive index of water? If water
is replaced by a liquid of refractive index 1.63 up to the same height, by what distance would the
microscope have to be moved to focus on the needle again?

11. A compound microscope consists of an objective lens of focal length 0.82 cm and an eyepiece lens
of focal length 2.9 cm. An object is placed 0.91 cm from the objective lens. The image is formed at
the near point (25 cm) from the eye. (I) Calculate that the angular magnification of the microscope.
(II) Draw the ray diagram of compound microscope in normal adjustment.
12. Equi-convex lenses are to be manufactured from a glass of refractive index 1.55, with both faces of
the same radius of curvature. What is the radius of curvature required if the focal length is to be
10cm?

13. a) A giant refracting telescope at an observatory has an objective lens of focal length 15 m. If an
eyepiece of focal length 1.0 cm is used, what is angular magnification of the telescope in normal
adjustment? b) If this telescope is used to view the moon, what is the diameter of the image of the
moon formed by the objective lens? The diameter of the moon is 3.48 × 106 m, and the radius of
lunar orbit is 3.8 × 108 m.
14. (i) If f = 0.5 m for a glass lens, what is the power of the lens? (ii) The radii of curvature of the faces
of a double convex lens are 10 cm and 15 cm. Its focal length is 12 cm. What is the refractive index
of glass? (iii) A convex lens has 20 cm focal length in air. What is focal length in water? (Refractive
index of air-water = 1.33, refractive index for air-glass = 1.5.)

15. What is the reason that the focal length of objective and eye piece is small for compound
microscope? What would be the case for telescope?
 M of microscope is LD/fofe hence both focal length should be small.
M of telescope is fo/fe hence fo be large and fe small.
16. In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slits are separated by 0.28 mm and the screen is placed 1.4
m away. The distance between the central bright fringe and the fourth bright fringe is measured to be
1.2 cm. Determine the wavelength of light used in the experiment.

17. In Young’s double-slit experiment using monochromatic light of wavelength l, the intensity of light
at a point on the screen where path difference is l, is K units. What is the intensity of light at a point
where path difference is /3?

18. Find the position of the image formed by the lens combination given in the Fig
 The image formed by the first lens serves as the
object for the second. This is at a distance of (15−5) cm=10 cm to the right of the second lens.

19. A screen is placed 90cm from an object. The image of the object on the screen is formed by a convex
lens at two different locations separated by 20cm. Determine the focal length of the lens
20. A small telescope has an objective lens of focal length 144cm and an eyepiece of focal length 6.0cm.
What is the magnifying power of the telescope? What is the separation between the objective and the
eyepiece?
M= fo/fe = 144/6= 24,
L= fo + fe = 144 + 6 = 150cm
21. The image of small electric bulb fixed on the wall of a room is to be obtained on the opposite wall
3m away by means of a large convex lens. What is the maximum possible focal length of the lens
required for the purpose?

22. Suppose that the electric field amplitude of an electromagnetic wave is E0 =120 N/C and that its
frequency is 50MHz. Determine B0, ᾠ, k and λ.
23. A small bulb is placed at the bottom of a tank containing water to a depth of 80cm. What is the area
of the surface of water through which light from the bulb can emerge out? Refractive index of water
is 1.33. (Consider the bulb to be a point source.)

24. A beam of light converges at a point P. Now a lens is placed in the path of the convergent beam
12cm from P. At what point does the beam converge if the lens is (a) a convex lens of focal length
20cm, and (b) a concave lens of focal length 16cm?
25. Explain the condition when the (i) convex lens behaves as plane glass sheet (ii) convex lens behaves
as concave lens? Draw the ray diagram also,
26. When a convex lens of power +10D is kept in contact with a lens, resultant power of the combination
is observed to be -10D, focal length of the second lens is:
a. 5cm b. 5m c. -5cm d. -5m
27. Light from a point source in air falls on a spherical glass surface (n = 1.5 and radius of curvature =
20 cm). The distance of the light source from the glass surface is 100 cm. At what position the image
is formed?
28. Three rays (1,2,3) of different colours fall normally on one of the sides of an isosceles right-angle
prism as shown. The refractive index of prism for these rays is 1.36, 1.44 and 1.51 respectively. find
which of these rays get internally reflected and which get only refracted from AC. Trace the paths of
rays justify your answer with the help of necessary calculations.

The ray will undergo TIR if its refractive index is > 1.414

29. A ray of light passing through an equilateral triangular glass from air undergoes minimum deviation
when angle of incidence is 3/4th of the angle of prism. calculate the speed of light in the prism.
30. Plot the variation intensity of interference when a monochromatic source is incident on a plane of
double slit with path difference. also plot the variation in intensity if one of the slits is closed.
31. Light from a point source in air falls on a spherical glass surface (n = 1.5 and radius of curvature =
20 cm). The distance of the light source from the glass surface is 100 cm. At what position the image
is formed?

32. Write two characteristic features to distinguish between the interference fringes in YDSE and
diffraction due to single slit.
33. A parallel beam of light of wavelength 500 nm falls on a narrow slit and the resulting diffraction
pattern is observed on a screen 1 m away. It is observed that the first minimum is a distance of 2.5
 mm away from the centre. find the width of the slit.

34. (A) Define angle of deviation in a prism? (B) Obtain the relation A+δ=i+e for a prism where A is the
angle of prism, δ is the angle of deviation, i is the angle of incidence and e is the angle of emergence.
Write this relation for the minimum deviation? (C) Write the condition for minimum deviation.
35. Explain how Maxwell came to the idea of Displacement Current.
36. What is the nature of electromagnetic waves? Draw electromagnetic waves.
Transverse, can travel in vacuum, not charged, not deflected in electric and magnetic field

37. (i) Which are the rays absorbed by the ozone layer? (ii) Which rays produce greenhouse effect and
global warming?
38. Write the order of frequency range and one use of each of the following electromagnetic radiations
(a)Microwaves (b) Ultraviolet rays (c) Gamma rays
REVISE NCERT TABLE
39. Under what conditions does the phenomenon of total internal reflection take place? Draw a ray
diagram showing how a ray of light deviates by 90∘ after passing through a right angled isosceles
prism.
40. What is meant by the transverse nature of electromagnetic waves? Draw a diagram showing the
propagation of an electromagnetic wave along X-direction, indicating clearly the directions of
oscillating electric and magnetic fields associated with it.
In case if EMW the oscillations of electric field, magnetic field and direction of propagation of wave
are perpendicular to each other.

41. Draw the ray diagram of an astronomical telescope showing image formation in the normal
adjustment position. Write the expression for its magnifying power.
42. (A) When a convex lens of focal length 30 cm is in contact with a concave lens of focal
43. How does the spacing between fringes in Young’s double slit experiment change? a) if the slit
separation is increased? b) If the colour of the light is changed from red to blue?
44. In a Young’s experiment, the interference pattern is found to have an intensity ratio between the
bright and dark fringes as 9:1. What is (i) The ratio of intensities (ii) Amplitude of two interfering
waves
45. Suppose that the electric field part of an electromagnetic wave in vacuum is
E= {(3.1 N/C) cos [(1.8 rad/m)y +(5.4 x 106 rad/s)t]}i
(a) What is the direction of propagation? (b) What is the wave length? (c) What is the frequency? (d)
Write an expression for the magnetic field part of the wave?
46. A single slit of width 0.5 mm is illuminated by parallel light of wavelength 500 A and diffraction
pattern is observed on a screen 1 m from the slit. The width of the central maxima is(a) 500 mm (b)
600 mm(c) 700 mm (d) 800 mm
47. Assertion: A white source of light during interference forms only white and black fringes.
Reason: Width of fringe is inversely proportional to the wavelength of the light used.
BOTH ARE FALSE
48. BOTH R Assertion: A white source of light during interference forms only white and black fringes.
Reason: Width of fringe is inversely proportional to the wavelength of the light used.
BOTH ARE FALSE
49. A ray of light incident on an equilateral glass prism = 3 moves parallel to the base line of the
prism inside. It. Find the angle of incidence for this ray.
50. What is the focal length of a convex lens of focal length 30cm in contact with a concave lens of focal
length 20cm? Is the system a converging or a diverging lens? Ignore thickness of the lenses.
51. Case Study: The principle of superposition is used to understand the phenomenon of interference of
light waves. The principle states that at a particular point, the resultant displacement produced by a
number of waves is the vector sum of the displacements produced by each wave. Light wave from
two coherent source produce interference pattern. Thomas Young devised a way to obtain two
coherent sources using two identical pinholes(S1 and S2) illuminated by a single monochromatic
pinhole source S. Using these sources in his experiment known as Young’s double slit experiment,
Young studied the interference pattern. The pattern consists of alternate bright and dark fringes. The
distance between two successive bright or dark fringes depends on the distance between S1 and S2
,the distance of the screen from the plane of S1 S2 and the wavelength of light used.
(i) Consider the following waves: (i) y1 =a sinὼt (ii) y2 = a sin2ὼt (iii) y3 = a sin(2ὼt +ɸ) (iv) a
sin(4ὼt + π/2) Which pair of the waves coming from two sources S1 and S2 will produce
interference?
a. (i) and (ii) b. (ii) and (iii) c. (iii) and (iv) d. (iv) and (i)
For interference frequency must be same.
(ii) Two light waves of the same intensity I0 each, having a path difference of λ/4 , emanating
from two coherent sources, meet at a point. The resultant intensity at the point will be; a. zero
b. I0 c. 2I0 d. 4I0
Phase difference = (2/)(/4) = /2

(iii) In Young’s double slit experiment the slit separation is 0.8mm and the interference pattern is
obtained on the screen kept 50cm from the plane of the slits S1 and S2 .If the first bright
fringe is formed 0.4mm from the central maximum , the wavelength of light used is:
a. 480nm b. 56nm c. 640nm d. 680 m
 (iv) Consider the effect on the angular separation of the fringes in a Young’s double slit
experiment due to the following operations.
i) the screen is moved away from the plane of the slits.
ii) the separation between the two slits is increased till fringes are observed
Which of the following option is correct?
a. It remains constant in both cases
b. It decreases in both cases.
c. It remains constant in (i) but decreases in (ii)
d. It decreases in (i) but remains constant i
52. Derive lens Maker’s formula for the convex lens.
53. State Huygen’s principle and use to prove the laws of refraction of light.
54. a. Draw a ray diagram showing the image formation by a compound microscope. Hence obtain the
expression for total magnification when the image is formed at infinity. b. You are given two
converging lenses of focal lengths 1.25 cm and 5 cm to design a compound microscope. If it is
desired to have a magnification of 30, find out the separation between the objective and the eyepiece
a) when the image lies at infinity b) When the image is formed at the near point.
55. A ray of light is incident on the equilateral triangular prism of refractive index 1.5 such that it
undergoes total internal reflection on the opposite surface. Calculate the angle of incidence.
n=1/SinC

SinC= 1/1.5

C= 42

r1 + r2 = A

r1+C = 60

r1= 60-42= 18

n1 sini1 = n2 sin r1

(1)Sin i1= (1.5) sin 18

I1= 28.
( The values are approximately)
56. Figure shows an equiconvex lens (of refractive index 1.50) in contact with a liquid layer on top of a
plane mirror. A small needle with its tip on the principal axis is moved along the axis until its
inverted image is found at the position of the needle. The distance of the needle from the lens is
measured to be 45.0cm. The liquid is removed and the experiment is repeated. The new distance is
measured to be 30.0cm. What is the refractive index of the liquid?