📘 Assignment – ICSE Class 10 Physics
📚 Chapters: Refraction of Light at Plane Surfaces & Refraction Through a Lens
📝 Total Questions: 50
🎯 Level: Based on Previous Years’ ICSE Board Questions
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🔹 Section A: Very Short Answer Questions (1 mark each)
1. Define refraction of light.
2. What causes refraction of light?
3. What is the refractive index of a medium?
4. Name two factors that affect the refractive index.
5. What is lateral displacement?
6. What is meant by the term "optical density"?
7. What is the speed of light in vacuum?
8. State the direction in which light bends when it passes from a rarer to a denser medium.
9. Name the phenomenon due to which a coin in water appears raised.
10. What is the value of refractive index of air with respect to glass?
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🔹 Section B: Short Answer Questions – Conceptual (2 marks each)
11. State Snell’s Law.
12. Why does a pencil appear bent when partly immersed in water?
13. Define the term critical angle.
14. Write the relation between critical angle and refractive index.
15. What is total internal reflection?
16. Give two examples where total internal reflection is observed.
17. A ray of light enters from air into glass. Explain the change in its speed and direction.
18. What is the refractive index of water if the speed of light in water is 2.25 × 10⁸ m/s?
19. Light travels from medium A to medium B. It bends away from the normal. Which medium is
optically denser?
20. Why does a glass slab not show any deviation in the emergent ray but only lateral
displacement?
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🔹 Section C: Short Answer Questions – Lens Theory (2 marks each)
21. State two characteristics of a convex lens.
22. What is meant by principal axis of a lens?
23. Define power of a lens. State its SI unit.
24. What is the focal length of a lens with power +5D?
25. Differentiate between a real and a virtual image.
26. A convex lens can produce both real and virtual images. Explain with object position.
27. What kind of lens is used in a magnifying glass?
28. Name the lens used to correct myopia and hypermetropia.
29. A ray of light passes through the optical center of a lens. How does it emerge?
30. State the sign conventions used in lens formula.
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🔹 Section D: Numericals (3–4 marks each)
31. A light ray travels from air to glass. If the angle of incidence is 45° and angle of refraction is
28°, calculate the refractive index.
32. Calculate the lateral displacement produced by a glass slab 3 cm thick when a ray of light is
incident at 30°. (Use suitable formula)
33. A ray passes from water (n = 1.33) to glass (n = 1.5). Find the angle of incidence if angle of
refraction is 30°.
34. A convex lens forms an image 30 cm away from the lens when the object is placed 15 cm in
front of it. Find its focal length.
35. An object is placed at a distance of 12 cm from a concave lens of focal length 20 cm. Find
the image distance.
36. Calculate the refractive index of a medium in which the critical angle is 41.8°.
37. A lens forms a virtual image 30 cm behind it of an object placed 20 cm in front. Find focal
length.
38. Find the power of a lens having focal length 50 cm.
39. An object is placed at 2F in front of a convex lens. Draw a ray diagram and state the nature,
position, and size of image.
40. A ray enters a glass slab at 45° and emerges at the same angle. Prove that emergent ray is
parallel to incident ray.
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🔹 Section E: Long Answer / Diagram Based Questions (3–5 marks)
41. Explain total internal reflection with a diagram. Mention the two conditions for it.
42. Draw a neat diagram showing refraction through a rectangular glass slab. Mark angle of
incidence, refraction, and emergence.
43. Draw ray diagrams for the image formation by a convex lens when the object is:
a. At infinity
b. At 2F
c. Between F and lens
44. Draw a ray diagram for a concave lens when the object is placed beyond 2F.
45. Explain why a convex lens can form both real and virtual images, but a concave lens can
form only virtual images.
46. A fish is observed from above the water. Explain why its apparent position is different.
47. Explain how mirage is formed using the concept of refraction.
48. Light travels from medium A into medium B. Draw a diagram and show the bending of light
if:
a. B is optically denser
b. B is optically rarer
49. Describe an experiment to determine the refractive index of glass using a rectangular glass
slab.
50. State the lens formula and derive it briefly for a convex lens.
