TMIC +2. SC. 2ND YR.

2018 – 19

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

1. An object is placed in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature 40 cm at a distance of 10 cm. Find the
position, nature and magnification of the image?
[Ans. 20cm, virtual, M=2]
2. An object is kept in front of a concave mirror of focal length 20 cm. The image formed is three times the size of
the object. Calculate the possible distance of the object from the mirror?
[Ans. 13.3cm or 26.6cm]
3. A needle 1.5 cm is placed at a distance of 20 cm from a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. At what distance
from the mirror should a screen be placed in order to receive a sharp image? If the needle is moved closer to the
mirror, how would the screen have to be moved?
[Ans. 60 cm, inverted, real, magnified]
4. An object is placed at a distance of 40 cm from a convex mirror of focal length 10 cm. If the object is displaced
through a distance of 20 cm towards the mirror by how much distance is the image displaced?
[Ans. 1.45 cm towards mirror]
5. An ink dot on the sheet of a paper is viewed from above a distance of 50 cm. By what distance would the ink dot
appear to be raised if it is viewed through a glass slab of thickness 15 cm held parallel to the paper? (Given
refractive glass index =1.5)
[Ans. 5 cm. ]
6. If the refractive index of water and glass are 4/3 and 5/3 respectively and the light is tending to go from glass to
water, then what is the value of the critical angle?
4
[Ans. sin 1   or 53 8' ]
5
7. A point source of light is situated at the bottom of a tank filled with water up to the level of 80 cm. Find the area
of the source of the water through which the light from the source emerges out. Take refractive index =1.33?
[Ans. 2.6 m3]
8. If an object lies at a distance of 20 cm from the convex surface of radius of curvature of 10 cm in the rarer
medium, then find the position of the image formed. Assume that the refractive index of the denser medium is 2.0
and that of rarer medium is 1.0?
[Ans. 40 cm.]
9. The radius of curvature of each face of a biconcave lens, made of glass of refractive index 1.55 is same. Calculate
the radius of curvature if focal length of the lens in air is 20 cm?
[Ans. 22 cm.]
10. A glass of convex lens has a power of 10.0 D. When this lens is totally immersed in a liquid, it acts as concave
lens of focal length 50 cm. Calculate the refractive index of the liquid.(given ang=1.5)?
[Ans. 1.67]
11. A needle placed 45 cm from a lens forms an image on a screen placed 90 cm on the other side of the lens. what is
the type of the lens? Find its focal length. If the length of the needle is 5 cm, what is the length of the image?
[Ans. f  30 cm, h'  10 cm. ]
12. Show that the minimum distance between a real object and its real image formed by a lens is equal to 4 times the
focal length of the lens?
[Ans. ---- ]
13. A beam of light converges to appoint P. A lens is placed in the path of the convergent beam 12 cm from P. At
what point those the beam converge if the lens is (a) a convex lens of focal length 20 cm?
[Ans. 7.5 cm. from convex lens.]
14. A concave lens is kept in contact with a convex lens of focal length 20 cm. The combination works as convex
lens of focal length 50 cm. Find the power of concave lens?
[Ans.  3.0 D]

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15. The refractive indices of crown glass and flint glass for violet and red light are 1.523 and 1.513 and 1.773 and
1.743 respectively. Calculate the dispersive powers of these glasses?
[Ans. 0.0193 & 0.0396]
16. A hypermetropic person wears spectacles of power +1.0 D. Calculate the nearest distance of distinct vision for the
person if his near point is 50 cm?
[Ans. 33.33…]
17. The left eye of a person is myopic with a far point of 4 m and the right eye is hypermetric with a near point of 75
cm. what is the prescription for his eye glasses?
[Ans. A convex lens of 2.67 D]
18. A simple microscope consist of a convex lens of power=25 D and a concave lens of power -20 D in contact. Find
the magnifying power when the final image is formed (a) at infinity (b) at a distance of distinct vision.
[Ans. 1.25 & 2.25]
19. A compound microscope has angular magnification equal to 10. If the object subtends an angle of 0.6⁰ to the eye,
what will be the angle subtended by the image to eye?
[Ans. 6°]
20. The focal lengths of the objective and eye-piece of a microscope are 2 cm and 5 cm respectively and the distance
between them is 25 cm. Find the distance of the object from the objective, when the final image is formed at the
distance of distinct vision. Also find the magnifying power of the microscope?
250
[Ans. 0  cm. , M.P  56.5 ]
113
21. A student is using a compound microscope to focus on a small object at a distance of 6 mm from the objective
lens of the microscope.
(i)Find the distance between the eye-piece and objective lens of the microscope.
(ii) Magnifying power of the microscope. Given focal length of objective =2 mm and focal length of eye-piece =
5 cm and the distance of distinct vision = 25 cm.
[Ans. (i) 4.46, (ii) M.P = 3]
22. The objective of an astronomical telescope has a diameter of 150 mm and a focal length of 4.00 m. The eyepiece
has a focal length of 25.00 mm. Calculate the magnifying power of the telescope. What is the distance between
the objective and the eyepiece?
[Ans. M.P = 160, L = 4.025 m.]
23. The magnifying power of a telescope is found to be 9 and the separation between the lenses is 20 cm for relaxed
eye. What are the focal lengths of the component lenses?
[Ans. f0 = 18, fe = 2 cm.]
24. A glass is filled with water up to 12.5 cm. The apparent depth of an object lying at the bottom of the glass is
measured by a microscope to be 9.4 cm. Calculate the refractive index of water. If water is replaced by a liquid of
refractive index 1.63 up to the same height, by what distance would the microscope has to be moved to focus the
object again?
[Ans. 1.74 cm.]
25. Calculate the resolving power of this telescope, assuming the diameter of the objective lens to be 6 cm and the
wavelength of light used to be 540 nm.
[Ans. 9.1  104]
WAVE OPTICS
1. If the phase difference between two light waves is 45° then find the path difference?

[Ans.   ]
8
2. White light is the mixture of light of wavelengths between 400 to 700 nm. If these light goes through water
(=1.33) what are the limits of the wavelength there?
[Ans. 300-500 nm].

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3. White light is passed through a double slit and interference pattern is observed on a screen 2.5m away .the
separation between the slits is 0.5 mm. The first violet and red fringes are formed 2.0 mm and 3.5 mm away from
the central bright fringe. Calculate the wavelength(s) of the violet and red light
[Ans. 400, 700 nm]
4. The intensity of light coming from one of the slits in a young’s double slits experiment is the double the intensity
from the other slit .find the ratio of the maximum intensity to the minimum intensity `in the interference fringe
pattern observed.
[Ans. 34]
5. In a young’s double slit experiment the fringe pattern is observed on a screen placed at a distance D from the slits.
The slits are separated by a distance d and are illuminated by monochromatic light of wave length  Find the
distance from the central point where the intensity falls to (a) half the maximum (b) one –fourth of the
maximum.
D D
[Ans.(a) (b) ]
4d 3d
6. In a double slits experiment =500 nm, d= 1.0 mm and D =1.0 m. find the minimum distance from the central
maximum for which the intensity is half of the maximum intensity.
[Ans. 1.25× 104 m]
7. The slits in a young’s double slits experiment have equal width and the source is placed symmetrically with
respect to the slits. The intensity at the central fringe is I0 .if one of the slit is closed ,then what will be the
intensity at this point?
I0
[Ans. ]
4
8. In Young’s double-slit experiment while using a source of light of wavelength 5000  1010m, the fringe width
obtained is 0.6 cm. If the distance between the screen and slit is reduced to half, what should be the wavelength of
the source to get fringes 0.003 m wide?
[Ans. 5000  1010 m]
9. A narrow monochromatic beam of light intensity I is incident on a glass plate.
Another identical glass plate is kept close to the first one and parallel to it. Each
plate reflects 25% of incident light and transmit the remaining. Calculate the ratio
of minimum and maximum intensity in the interference pattern formed by two
beams obtained after reflection from each plate. And also find the amplitude
ratio.
[Ans. (i) 1 : 49, (ii) 4/3]

10. If the two slits in Young’s double-slit experiment have width ratio 4 : 1, deduce the ratio of intensity at maxima
and minima in the interference pattern.
[Ans. 9 : 1]
11. In Young’s double slit experiment, we get 60 fringes in the field of view of monochromatic light of wavelength
4000 A°. If we use monochromatic light of wavelength 6000 A°, then what is the number of fringes obtained in
the same field of view?
12. In Young’s experiment, the width of fringes obtained with light of wavelength 6000 A° is 2.0 mm. What will be
the fringe width if the entire apparatus is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.33?
13. The slit of width ‘a’ is illuminated by light of wavelength 5000 Ǻ. For what value of ‘d’ will the first maximum
fall at angle of diffraction of 30°?
[Ans. 1.5  106 m]
14. The light of wavelength 600 nm is incident normally on a slit of width 3 mm. Calculate the linear width of central
maximum on a screen kept 3 m away from the slit.
[Ans. 1.2 mm]
15. A parallel beam of light of wavelength 600 nm is incident normally on a slit of width ‘d’. If the distance between
the slits and the screen is 0.8 m and the distance of 2nd order minimum from the centre of the screen is 9.5 mm,
calculate the width of the slit.
[Ans. 0.1 mm]

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