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W44 5.3 Total Internal Reflection

This document contains a student worksheet on light and optics. It includes multiple choice and structured questions about topics like total internal reflection, critical angle, refraction, optical instruments that use total internal reflection like binoculars and fiber optics. Some sample questions are on identifying which optical instrument does not use total internal reflection, conditions for total internal reflection to occur, identifying light rays that exhibit total internal reflection, and explaining phenomena like mirages that involve total internal reflection. The structured questions require calculating angles based on diagrams, naming phenomena like critical angle, explaining how instruments like binoculars form enlarged virtual images using refraction, and stating advantages of instruments like optical fibers.

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W44 5.3 Total Internal Reflection

This document contains a student worksheet on light and optics. It includes multiple choice and structured questions about topics like total internal reflection, critical angle, refraction, optical instruments that use total internal reflection like binoculars and fiber optics. Some sample questions are on identifying which optical instrument does not use total internal reflection, conditions for total internal reflection to occur, identifying light rays that exhibit total internal reflection, and explaining phenomena like mirages that involve total internal reflection. The structured questions require calculating angles based on diagrams, naming phenomena like critical angle, explaining how instruments like binoculars form enlarged virtual images using refraction, and stating advantages of instruments like optical fibers.

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Name of student: _________________________

Subject:
Topic:

Class:
Date:
Week:
Time:

Wednesday
2.11.16
44
(6.30 pm 9.30 pm)

Kipli Yassin Resources, Heritage Garden


PHYSICS, Form 4
5 LIGHT
5.3 Total Internal Reflection (EXERCISE)

1. Which of the following optical instruments does


not function on the principle of total internal
reflection?
A. Periscope
B.
Binoculars
C. Optical fibres
D. Microscope
2.
3. Among the phenomena below, which is not
related to the principle of total internal
reflection?
A. Mirage
B.
Rainbow
C. Sky appears red at sunset
D. Light passing through optical fibres
4.
5. Which of the following are the conditions for
total internal reflection to occur?
A. The incident ray must travel from a less dense
medium to a denser medium.
B.
The angle of incidence must be more than the
critical angle.
C. The angle of incidence must be more than the
angle of refraction.
D. The ratio of the sine value of the angle of
incidence to the sine value of the angle of
refraction is a constant.
6.
7. The critical angle formed at the boundary of air
and glass is the
A. minimum angle of incidence before total
internal reflection occurs when light travels
from glass to air,
B.
maximum angle of incidence before total
internal reflection occurs when light travels
from glass to air,
C. minimum angle of incidence before total
internal reflection occurs when light travels
from air to glass,
D. maximum angle of incidence before total
internal reflection occurs when light travels
from air to glass.
8. Which light ray exhibits total internal reflection?

9.
10.
11. If the critical angle of a diamond is 23 o, what is
the refractive index of diamond?
A. 2.12
B.
2.37
C. 2.48
D. 2.56
12.
13. Which of the following is a phenomenon that
causes mirage?
A. refraction
B.
refraction and total internal reflection
C. reflection
D. total internal reflection
14.
15. The diagram shows a light ray entering a glass
and refracted.

16.
17.
What is the refractive index of the
glass block?
A. 1.50
B.
1.58
C. 1.66
D. 1.72

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18. The diagram below shows a ray, X, directed into
a glass block. The critical angle of the glass
block is 42o. In which direction does the light
move from point Y ?

35.
36.
37.
D
38. B
39.
D
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47. The diagram below shows a light ray traveling
through an optical fibre. The fibre optic has a

P
glass core, P, of density

19.
20.
21. Which of the following processes is not related
to total internal reflection?
A. Light is travelling from a denser to a less
dense medium.
B.
Incident angle > critical angle.
C. Incident angle = angle of total internal
reflection ray.
D. Intensity of total internal reflection ray >
incident ray.
22.
23. A light ray travels from air to glass block at an
incident angle of is shown in diagram below.

and a glass

cladding Q of density

48.
49.
50.

Which of the following is correct?


Q

P
A.
B.

=
>

C.
<
51.
52. In diagram below, PQ is a light ray which travels
from the glass towards the glass-air surface. The
angle of incidence is 49o.

24.
25.
26.

Which of the following angles A, B, C


and D represents the critical angle?

27.
28. Which of the following shows the total internal
reflection phenomenon?
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.

53.
54.
55.

Given the critical angle of the glass is


42 , the path of the light ray after passing
through Q is
QK
QZL
o

A.
B.

3
C. QZM
D. QZN
56. Which of the following statements about the
formation of mirage is false?
A. Mirage is caused by total internal reflection.
B.
The air close to the ground is denser than the
air higher up.
C. The air close to the ground is optically less
dense than the air higher up.
D. Rays of light from the sky are refracted away
from normal as they pass into the air close to
the ground.
57.
58. Optical fibres are used in all of the following
except
A. Telescopes
B.
Endoscopes

C. Telephone cables
D. Cable linking computers
59.
60. In a certain region, air becomes hotter as it gets
nearer to the surface of the earth. Which of the
following sketches best illustrates the path of a
light ray traveling from the sky to the surface of
earth?
61.
A.
C.
C.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
B.
D.
67.
68.
69.
70.

71.
72. Structured Questions
73.
1. Diagram below shows three light rays from a point O traveling in a glass block towards a glass-to-air boundary
of the glass block in different directions. The refractive index of the glass block is 1.5.

74.
75.
(a) (i) Calculate the value of angle .
76.
77.
(ii) Name the light phenomenon that occurs at X.
78.
(b) (i) Determine the value of angle
79.
80.
81.

(ii)

What is the name given to the angle

(c) (i) Find the angle .


82.
83.
(ii) State the light phenomenon that occurs at Y.
84.
85.
86.

2. Diagram below shows a driver under a hot sun, sees a pool of water appearing on the road surface.

87.
88.
(a) (i) Compare the density of the cool air to the density of hot air.
89.
90.
(ii)
What happens to the direction of the refracted rays when light rays propagates from cool air
to hot air?
91.
(b) (i) Name this natural phenomenon.
92.
93.
(ii)
State the physics concept that is involved in this phenomenon.
94.
(c) Using the above diagram, explain how the car driver can see the pool of water.
95.
(d) Name the optical instrument that uses the physics concept in b(ii).
96.
3.

97.
98. Diagram (I)
99.
100.
Diagram (I) shows the arrangement of two identical glass prisms to form a binoculars. The critical angle of
the glass prism is 42o.
(a) In Diagram (I),
(i)
complete the path of light ray passing through the two prisms and finally towards the observer.
(ii)
with the help of a suitable line, draw at the right place the image as seen by the observer.
101.
(b) State two characteristics of the image formed by the binoculars.
102.
(c) Explain why the image formed by the binoculars appears to be enlarged.
103.
(d) State two advantages of binoculars as compared to telescopes.

104.
105.

Diagram (II)

106.
107.
Diagram (II) shows the basic operation of an optical fibre whereby a thin beam of laser is able to pass through
it at high speed and with very little signal loss.
108.
(e) State the principle used to prevent signal loss in the optical fibre.
109.
(f) What are the special properties of the fibre material in relation to its use?
110.
(g) State three advantages of using optical fibres in the field of telecommunications.
111.
4.

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115.

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