SONAKSHI TEST

LIGHT – REFLECTION AND REFRACTION

SUBJECT: SCIENCE MAX. MARKS : 40

CLASS : X DURATION : 1½ hrs
General Instructions:
(i). All questions are compulsory.
(ii). This question paper contains 20 questions divided into five Sections A, B, C, D and E.
(iii). Section A comprises of 10 MCQs of 1 mark each. Section B comprises of 4 questions of 2 marks
each. Section C comprises of 3 questions of 3 marks each. Section D comprises of 1 question of 5
marks each and Section E comprises of 2 Case Study Based Questions of 4 marks each.
(iv). There is no overall choice.
(v). Use of Calculators is not permitted

SECTION – A
Questions 1 to 10 carry 1 mark each.

1. A student wants to obtain magnified image of an object AB on a screen. Which one of the
following arrangements shows the correct position of AB for him/her to be successful?

2. If a man’s face is 25 cm in front of concave shaving mirror producing erect image 1.5 times the
size of face, focal length of the mirror would be
(a) 75 cm (b) 25 cm (c) 15 cm (d) 60 cm

3. An object at a distance of 30 cm from a concave mirror gets its image at the same point. The
focal length of the mirror is
(a) – 30 cm (b) 30 cm (c) – 15 cm (d) +15 cm

4. Beams of light are incident through the holes A and B and emerge out of box through the holes C
and D respectively as shown in the figure. Which of the following could be inside the box?

(a) A rectangular glass slab (b) A convex lens

(c) A concave lens (d) A prism

5. A beam of light is incident through the holes on side A and emerges out of the hole on the other
face of the box as shown in the figure. Which of the following could be inside the box?

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 (a) Concave lens (b) Rectangular glass slab
(c) Prism (d) Convex lens

6. A student carries out the experiment of tracing the path of a ray of light through a rectangular
glass slab for two different values of angle of incidence ∠i = 30° and ∠i = 45°. In the two cases
the student is likely to observe the set of values of angle of refraction and angle of emergence as:
(a) ∠r =30°, ∠e = 20° and ∠r = 45°, ∠e = 28°
(b) ∠r =30°, ∠e = 30° and ∠r = 45°, ∠e = 45°
(c) ∠r =20°, ∠e = 30° and ∠r = 28°, ∠e = 45°
(d) ∠r =20°, ∠e = 20° and ∠r = 28°, ∠e = 28°
7. The nature of the image formed by concave mirror when the object is placed between the focus
(F) and centre of curvature (C) of the mirror observed by us is
(a) real, inverted and diminished (b) real, inverted and enlarged
(c) virtual, erect and smaller in size (d) virtual, upright and enlarged
8. The path of a ray of light coming from air passing through a rectangular glass slab traced by four
students are shown as A, B, C and D in figure. Which one of them is correct?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D

In the following questions 9 and 10, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of reason
(R). Mark the correct choice as:
(a) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(b) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.
9. Assertion (A): Incident light is reflected in only one direction from a smooth surface.
Reason (R): Since the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are same, a beam of parallel
rays of light falling on a smooth surface is reflected as a beam of parallel light rays in one
direction only.

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10. Assertion (A): Refractive index has no units.
Reason (R): The refractive index is ratio of two similar quantities.

SECTION – B
Questions 11 to 14 carry 2 marks each.
11. A spherical mirror produces an image of magnification –1 on a screen placed at a distance of 50
cm from the mirror.
(a) Write the type of mirror.
(b) Find the distance of the image from the object.
(c) What is the focal length of the mirror?
12. A student wants to obtain an erect image of an object using a concave mirror of 12 cm focal
length. What should be the range of distance of the object from the mirror? State the nature and
size of the image he is likely to observe.
13. What is understood by lateral displacement of light? Illustrate it with the help of a diagram. List
any two factors on which the lateral displacement of a particular substance depends.
14. If the speed of light in vacuum is 3 × 108 m/s, find the absolute refractive index of a medium in
which light travels with a speed of 1.4 × 108 m/s.

SECTION – C
Questions 15 to 17 carry 3 marks each.
15. Draw a ray diagram to show the path of the refracted ray in each of the following cases: A ray of
light incident on a concave lens is
(i) passing through its optical centre.
(ii) parallel to its principal axis.
(iii) directed towards its principal focus.
16. An object 2 cm high is placed at a distance of 64 cm from a white screen. On placing a convex
lens at a distance of 32 cm from the object it is found that a distinct image of the object is formed
on the screen. What is the focal length of the convex lens and size of the image formed on the
screen ? Draw a ray diagram to show the formation of the image in this position of the object
with respect to the lens.
17. A 6 cm tall object is placed perpendicular to the principal axis of a convex lens of focal length 15
cm. The distance of the object from the lens is 10 cm. Find the position, size and nature of the
image formed, using the lens formula.
18. A convex lens has a focal length of 10 cm. At what distance from the lens should the object be
placed so that it forms a real and inverted image 20 cm away from the lens? What would be the
size of the image formed if the object is 2 cm high? With the help of a ray diagram show the
formation of the image by the lens in this case.

SECTION – D
Questions 18 carry 5 marks.
19. A student has focussed the image of a candle flame on a white screen using a concave mirror.
The situation is as given below:
Length of the flame = 1.5 cm
Focal length of the mirror = 12 cm
Distance of flame from the mirror = 18 cm
If the flame is perpendicular to the principal axis of the mirror, then calculate the following:
(a) Distance of the image from the mirror

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 (b) Length of the image.
If the distance between the mirror and the flame is reduced to 10 cm, then what would be
observed on the screen? Draw ray diagram to justify your answer for this situation.

SECTION – E (Case Study Based Questions)

Questions 19 to 20 carry 4 marks each.
20. Read the given passage and answer the questions based on passage and related studied
concepts.
Hold a concave mirror in your hand and direct its reflecting surface towards the sun. Direct the
light reflected by the mirror on to a white card-board held close to the mirror. Move the card-
board back and forth gradually until you find a bright, sharp spot of light on the board. This spot
of light is the image of the sun on the sheet of paper; which is also termed as “Principal Focus”
of the concave mirror.

(a) List two applications of concave mirror.

(b) If the distance between the mirror and the principal focus is 15 cm, find the radius of
curvature of the mirror.
(c) Draw a ray diagram to show the type of image formed when an object is placed between pole
and focus of a concave mirror.
(d) An object 10 cm in size is placed at 100 cm in front of a concave mirror. If its image is
formed at the same point where the object is located, find:
(i) focal length of the mirror, and
(ii) magnification of the image formed with sign as per Cartesian sign convention.

21. A compound microscope is an instrument

which consists of two lenses L1 and L2. The
lens L1 called objective, forms a real,
inverted and magnified image of the given
object. This serves as the object for the
second lens L2; the eye piece. The eye piece
functions like a simple microscope or
magnifier. It produces the final image, which
is inverted with respect to the original object,
enlarged and virtual.
(a) What types of lenses must be L1 and L2?
(b) (i) What is the value and sign of
magnification (according to the new
Cartesian sign convention) of the image formed by L1?
(ii) What is the value and sign of (according to new Cartesian sign convention) magnification of
the image formed by L2?
(c) If power of the eyepiece (L2) is 5 diopters and it forms an image at a distance of 80 cm from
its optical centre, at what distance should the object be?

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