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Assertion: The twinkling of stars is due to the refraction of light.

Reason: The velocity of light changes while going from one medium to the other.

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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Assertion: The diamond shines due to multiple total internal reflections.

Reason: The critical angle for diamond is 24.4°.

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Assertion: There is no dispersion of light refracted through a rectangular glass slab.

Reason: Dispersion of light is the phenomenon of splitting of a beam of white light into its constituent colours.

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Assertion: The blue colour of the sky is on account of the scattering of sunlight.

Reason: If the size of scatterer particles is very much smaller than the wavelength (a<<λ) then, The intensity of scattered light varies inversely as the fourth power of wavelength of light.

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Assertion : The Sun looks reddish at the time of sunrise and sunset because of scattering of light.

Reason : The wavelength of red colour is more than the wavelength of blue colour.

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Assertion : A secondary rainbow have inverted colours than the primary rainbow.

Reason : The secondary rainbow is formed by single total internal reflection.

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Assertion: Although the surfaces of a goggle lens are curved, it does not have any power.

Reason: In case of goggles, both the curved surfaces have equal radii of curvature.
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Assertion :If there had been one eye of the man then image would have not been seen three-dimensional and visible region would have decreased

Reason : By two eyes, we get two images of an object simultaneously from two different angles. Their superposition gives us the complete information about length, width and depth of the object.

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Calculate the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave having electron density and frequency for D layer, N=400 electron/cc, v=300 kHz