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Important Questions on Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

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The speed of light in denser medium is _____ than speed in rarer medium.
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The radii of curvature of the faces of a double convex lens made of glass, are 10 cm and 15 cm. Its focal length is 12 cm.

a Find the refractive index of glass

b Calculate its new focal length if the lens is completely immersed in water ( Refractive index of water is 43)

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A man is 160 cm tall and his eyes are 15 cm below the top of his head. In order to see his entire height, right from the top to head, he uses a plane mirror kept at a distance of 1 m from him. The minimum length of the plane mirror required is
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The dimensional formula of μ00 is _____
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The image of an object O due to reflection from the surface of a lake is elongated due to the ripples on the water surface caused by a light breeze. This is because the ripples act as tilted mirrors as shown below. Consider the case, where O and the observer E are at the same height above the surface of the lake. If the maximum angle that the ripples make with the horizontal is α, then the angular extent δ of the image will be

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The refractive index of the material of lens are 1.56 and 1.53 for yellow and red colours of light respectively. If the focal length of lens for yellow colour is 20 cm then calculate the focal length of lens for red colour.
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Which colour of the light has the longest wavelength?
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The relative permittivity of distilled water is 81. The velocity of light in it will be: (Given μr=1
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A compound microscope consists of an objective lens of focal length 1 cm and an eye piece of focal length 5 cm with a separation of 10 cm. The distance between an object and the objective lens, at which the strain on the eye is minimum is n40cm. The value of n is.......
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A ray deviates at 90° after suffering reflection from a mirror. The angle of incidence is
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The following graph depicts the inverse of magnification versus the distance between the object and lens data for a setup. The focal length of the lens used in the setup is

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Distance between the object and the lens m

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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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In a medium the speed of light wave decreases to 0.2 times to its speed in free space. The ratio of relative permittivity to the refractive index of the medium is x:1. The value of x is ______.

(Given speed of light in free space =3×108 m s-1 and for the given medium μr=1)

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A carrot looks orange in colour because of the β carotene molecule in it. This means that the β carotene molecule absorbs light of wavelengths,
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The correct representation of wavelength intensity relationship of an ideal black body radiation at two different temperatures T1 and T2 is
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Car B overtakes another car A at a relative speed of 40 m s-1. How fast will the image of car B appear to move in the mirror of focal length 10 cm fitted in car A, when the car B is 1.9 m away from the car A?
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Red light differs from blue light as they have :
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For a concave lens of focal length f, the relation between object and image distance u and v, respectively, from its pole can best be represented by (u=v is the reference line):