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A boy is trying to start a fire by focusing sunlight on a piece of paper using an equi-convex lens of focal length 10 cm. The diameter of the sun is 1.39×109 m and its mean distance from the earth is 1.5×1011 m What is the diameter of the sun's image on the paper?

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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Two thin lenses of focal lengths f1 and f2 are in contact and coaxial. The power of the combination is:

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A ray of light travelling in a transparent medium of refractive index μ, falls on a surface separating the medium from air at an angle of incidence of 45°. For which of the following value of μ the ray can undergo total internal reflection?
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A lens having focal length f and aperture of diameter d forms an image of intensity I. Aperture of diameter d2 in the central region of the lens is covered by black paper. The focal length of the lens and intensity of the image now will be respectively:
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The speed of light in media M1 and M2 are 1.5×108 m s-1 and 2.0×108 m s-1 respectively. A ray of light enters from medium M1 to M2 at an incidence angle i. If the ray suffers total internal reflection, the value of i is:
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A ray of light is incident on a  60° prism at the minimum deviation position. The angle of refraction at the first face (i.e., incident face) of the prism is
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Which of these is not due to total internal reflection?
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A bioconvex lens has a radius of curvature of magnitude 20 cm. Which one of the following options describe best the image formed of an object of height 2 cm placed 30 cm from the lens ?(Refractive index of lens material =1.5 )
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A thin prism of angle 15° made of glass of refractive index μ1=1.5 is combined with another prism of glass of refractive index μ2=1.75. The combination of the prism produces dispersion without deviation. The angle of the second prism should be