VELAMMAL VIDYALAYA POONAMALLEE

SECONDARY COMPARTMENT
CLASS 10
PHYSICS
WORKSHEET 8.6.23
Very short answers
1. Name the type of mirror used in headlights of a car and why?
2. A mirror has magnification +0.4. What type of mirror is it and
what type of the image is formed?
3. One half of convex lens is covered with a black paper. Will this
lens produce a complete image of the object? Explain your
observation.
4. A man is wearing glasses of focal length +1m. what can be the
defect in this eye?
5. What happens to the image distance in the eye when we
increase the distance of an object from the eye?
6. For dispersion of light through a prism which colour has
maximum deviation and which colour has minimum
deviation?
7. The rays, parallel to the principal axis, of a spherical mirror,
actually meet at a point 20 cm distant from its pole. Identify
the mirror and give its focal length.
8. Define one dioptre of power of a lens?
9. A ray of light is incident on a concave mirror along its
principal axis. What will be the angle of reflection?
10. Which of the two has a great power? A lens of short focal
length or a lens of large focal length?