Optical Instruments

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Optical Instruments: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Optical Instruments, Microscopes, Advantages of Reflecting Telescope over Refracting Telescope & Cassegrain Telescope etc.

Important Questions on Optical Instruments

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An astronomical telescope uses two lenses of powers 10 D and 1 D.Its magnifying power in normal adjustment would be:

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The expression for magnifying power of compound microscope is

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The expression for astronomical telescope magnifying power is

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What is astigmatism? How is it corrected?

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In a compound microscope, the intermediate image is

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The focal lengths of the objective and the eye piece of a compound microscope are 2.0 cm and 3.0 cm, respectively. The distance between the objective and the eye piece is 15.0 cm. The final image formed by the eye piece is at infinity. The two lenses are thin. The distance in cm of the object and the image produced by the objective, measured from the objective lens, are respectively

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When an object is placed at a distance of 60cm From a convex mirror, the linear magnification produced is 12. Where should the object be placed to obtain a magnification of 13 ?

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What are the eyepieces of the microscope called _____?

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Is a microscope eyepiece always 10x?

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Is Cassegrain telescope or astronomical telescope are same.

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A Cassegrain telescope uses two mirrors as shown in the figure. Such a telescope is built with the mirrors 20 mm apart. If the radius of curvature of the large mirror is 220 mm and the small mirror is 140 mm, where will the final image of an object at infinity in mm be?

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What is a cassegrain telescope?

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Total magnification of compound microscope is 20 while magnification for eye piece is 5. If final image is formed at near point which is taken 20 cm then focal length of eye piece is

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The focal length of magnifying glass is 25 cm then magnifying power this instrument when image is formed at infinity is ( near point for normal eye=D=25 cm)

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An object is at distance 30 cm from compound microscope of focal length 5 cm and 25 cm for objective and eye piece respectively. Magnifying power of microscope when image is formed at near point is 

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Why eyepiece of a telescope is of short focal length while objective is of large focal length ?

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A small laboratory telescope has an objective lens of focal, length 140 cm and an eye-piece of focal length 6 cm. Then, separation between the objective and eye-piece is _____.

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The focal length of an objective of a telescope is 3 meter and diameter 15 cm. Assuming for a normal eye, the diameter of the pupil is 3 mm for its complete use, the focal length of eye piece must be

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 A telescope that uses two converging lenses is called refracting telescope.

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 A telescope that uses two converging lenses is called _____ telescope.