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A thin, equiconvex, glass-lens of focal length 10 cm (in air) is kept at interface of air and transparent liquid. A point object is kept in air at a distance 20 cm from this interface on optic axis of lens. There is a 3 cm thick glass plate kept 12 cm away from lens. In between lens and plate liquid is present. Right to plate air is present. Two observers, O1 and O2 are present very close to optic axis on left and right side of glass plate respectively. Instantaneously speed of the object, the lens and the plate are 1cms-1 leftwards, 2cms-1 leftwards and 1cms-1 rightwards respectively. Take refractive index of glass μg=32 and of liquid μl=2. Instantaneously

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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A particle is oscillating on the x-axis with an amplitude 2 cm about the point x0=10 cm with a frequency. A concave mirror of focal length 5 cm is placed at the origin (see figure).

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Identify the correct statements?
(i) The image executes periodic motion.
(ii) The image executes non-periodic motion.
(iii) The turning points of the image are asymmetric with respect to the image of the point at X=10 cm.
(iv) The distance between the turning points of the oscillation of the image is 10021 cm.

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Three plane mirrors form an equilateral triangle with each side of length L. There is a small hole at a distance l>0 from one of the corners as shown in the figure. A ray of light is passed through the hole at an angle θ and can only come out through the same hole. The cross section of the mirror configuration and the ray of light lie on the same plane.

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Which of the following statement(s) is(are) correct?

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The angle made by incident ray of light with the reflecting surface is called
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Two plane mirrors are inclined to each other such that a ray of light incident on the first mirror M1 and parallel to the second mirror (M2) is finally reflected from the second mirror (M2) and parallel to the first mirror M1. The angle between the two mirrors will be:
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A wire is bent in the shape of a right angled triangle and is placed in front of a concave mirror of focal length f , as shown in the figure. Which of the figures shown in the four options qualitatively represent(s) the shape of the image of the bent wire? (These figures are not to scale.)
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Consider a tank made of glass (refractive index 1.5 ) with a thick bottom. It is filled with a liquid of refractive index μ. A student finds that, irrespective of what the incident angle i (see figure) is for a beam of light entering the liquid, the light reflected from the liquid glass interface is never completely polarized. For this to happen, the minimum value of μ is:

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A vessel of depth 2d is half-filled with a liquid of refractive index μ1 and the upper half with a liquid of refractive index μ2. The apparent depth of the vessel seen perpendicularly is
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A point source of light, S is placed at a distance L in front of the center of plane mirror of width d which is hanging vertically on a wall. A man walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror, at a distance 2L as shown below. The distance over which the man can see the image of the light source in the mirror is:

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A transparent thin film of uniform thickness and refractive index n1=1.4 is coated on the convex spherical surface of radius R at one end of a long solid glass cylinder of refractive index n2=1.5 , as shown in the figure. Rays of light parallel to the axis of the cylinder traversing through the film from air to glass get focused at distance f1 from the film, while rays of light traversing from glass to air get focused at distance f2 from the film. Then

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Two identical glass rods S1 and S2 (refractive index = 1.5) have one convex end of radius of curvature 10 cm. They are placed with the curved surfaces at a distance d as shown in the figure, with their axes (shown by the dashed line) aligned. When a point source of light P is placed inside rod S1 on its axis at a distance of 50 cm from the curved face, the light rays emanating from it are found to be parallel to the axis inside S2 . The distance d is

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Match the corresponding entries of column 1 with column 2. [Where m is the magnification produced by the mirror]
  Column 1   Column 2
(A) m=-2 (a) Convex mirror
(B) m=-12 (b) Concave mirror
(C) m=+2 (c) Real image
(D) m=+12 (d) Virtual image
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A transparent slab of thickness d has a refractive index n(z) that increases with z. Here z is the vertical distance inside the slab, measured from the top. The slab is placed between two media with uniform refractive indices n1 and n2>n1,  as shown in the figure. A ray of light is incident with angle θi from medium 1 and emerges in medium 2 with refraction angle θf with a lateral displacement l . Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true?
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The eye can be regarded as a single refracting surface. The radius of curvature of this surface is equal to that of the cornea (7.8 mm). This surface separates two media of refractive indices 1 and 1.34. Calculate the distance from the refracting surface at which a parallel beam of light will come to focus.
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A ray of light is incident normally on a glass slab of thickness 5 cm and refractive index 1.6. The time taken to travel by a ray from source to surface of the slab is the same as to travel through glass slab. The distance of the source from the surface is
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A light wave is incident normally on a glass slab of refractive index 1.5. If 4% of light gets reflected and the amplitude of the electric field of the incident light is 30 Vm, then the amplitude of the electric field for the wave propagating in the glass medium will be:
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You are asked to design a shaving mirror assuming that a person keeps it at 10 cm from his face and views the magnified image of the face at the closest comfortable distance of 25 cm. The radius of curvature of the mirror would then be:
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Diameter of a plano - convex lens is 6 cm and thickness at the centre is 3 mm. If the speed of light in the material of lens is 2×108 m s-1, the focal length of the lens is:
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A beaker of radius r is filled with waterrefractive index 43 up to a height H as shown in the figure on the left. The beaker is kept on a horizontal table rotating with angular speed ω. This makes the water surface curved so that the difference in the height of water level at the centre and at the circumference of the beaker is hhH, hr, as shown in the figure on the right. Take this surface to be approximately spherical with a radius of curvature R. Which of the following is/are correct? (g is the acceleration due to gravity)

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A ray of light wavelength λ0 and frequency v0 enters a glass slab of refractive index μ  from air. Then,
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A plano-convex lens is made of a material of refractive index n. When a small object is placed 30 cm away in front of the curved surface of the lens, an image of double the size of the object is produced. Due to reflection from the convex surface of the lens, another faint image is observed at a distance of 10 cm away from the lens. Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true?