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2 Light
 Easy

Question 1
The diagram shows white light passing through a prism.

Which of the following gives colours in the correct order from A to B?

a. Red, green, violet

b. Red, violet, green

c. Violet, red, green

d. Violet, green, red

Question 2
A teacher has a clock mounted in such a way that students can only see its reflection in a plane mirror.
The diagram shows the reflection of the clock.

What time is shown on the clock?

a. 05:40

b. 07:40

c. 07:20
d. 06:20

Question 3

An object is placed in front of a mirror. Where is the image formed, and is the image real or virtual?

Question 4
When light passes from a denser material into a less dense material

a. light slows down and bends toward the normal

b. light slows down and bends away from the normal

c. light speeds up and bends toward the normal

d. light speeds up and bends away from the normal

Question 5
Identify the correct definition of the critical angle.

a. The critical angle is the angle of incidence when the angle of refraction is exactly 90° and light is
refracted along the boundary

b. The critical angle is the angle of refraction when the angle of incidence is exactly 90° and light is
refracted along the boundary

c. The critical angle is the angle of incidence when the angle of reflection is exactly 90° and light is
reflected along the boundary

d. The critical angle is the angle of incidence when the angle of refraction is exactly 90° and light is
reflected along the boundary
 Medium

Question 1
Which of the diagrams below shows both the correct position of the image, and the correct path the
light rays must have taken to the eye?

Question 2
Which of the images correctly shows the focal length of the thin converging lens?

Question 3
A physics teacher demonstrates dispersion for her class. She asks the students to draw a diagram of the
dispersion.

The diagrams show four examples of what different students drew. One of them is correct. Which one?
 Question 4
Which diagram correctly shows the formation of a real image on a screen?

Question 5
The diagram shows a ray of light inside a perspex rod.

Perspex has a critical angle of 42 .

Which row in the table correctly states whether there is any light reflected from the surface, and
whether there is any light refracted out of the perspex rod?

 Hard

Question 1
The diagram shows light passing from air into glass. A number of angles have been labelled on the
diagram.

Which of the equations could be used to correctly calculate the refractive index, n, of the glass?

Question 2
Below is a ray diagram showing the image formed by a thin, converging lens.
Which of the following statements about the image is correct?

a. The image is virtual and can be seen by eye Y.

b. The image is inverted and can be seen by eye Y.

c. The image is real and can be seen by the eye at X.

d. The image is virtual and can be seen by eye X.

Question 3
Light enters a flat water surface at an angle of 27 0 .

The refractive index of water is 1.33.

At what angle does the light ray refract?

a. 0.340 .

b. 20.30 .

c. 20.00 .

d. 37.00 .

Question 4
A ray of light is shone into a semi-circular glass block so that it makes an angle of 48° with the rear, flat
edge of the block as shown.

Calculate the refractive index of the glass.

a. 0.023

b. 1.49

c. 2.38

d. 1.35
 Question 5
The diagram shows an object positioned close to a thin converging lens (inside the focal distance). Three
light rays are shown leaving the object and passing through the lens.

Which row in the table correctly describes the properties of the image?

Question 6
The diagram shows a ray of light being totally internally reflected at the boundary between substances A
and B.

Which row in the table must be true?

 Question 7
The image below shows white light being split into its constituent colours by a glass prism.

Why does a prism cause white light to be dispersed?

a. Light towards the red end of the spectrum slows down less than light towards the violet end of the
spectrum as it moves through the glass

b. Light towards the red end of the spectrum slows down more than light towards the violet end of the
spectrum as it moves through the glass

c. The frequency of the light towards the red end decreases more than the frequency of light towards
the violet end of the spectrum

d. The frequency of the light towards the violet end decreases more than the frequency of light towards
the red end of the spectrum