CBSE TEST PAPER-05

Class - 12 Physics (Ray Optics and optical Instruments)

1. An object is placed at a distance of 10 cm from a co-axial combination of two lenses A

and B in contact. The combination forms a real image three times the size of the
object. If lens B is concave with a focal length of 30 cm, what is the nature and focal
length of lens A?
a. Convex, 12 cm
b. Convex, 6 cm
c. Concave, 12 cm
d. Convex, 18 cm
2. Refraction is
a. Change of direction of propagation of light at the interface of two media as light
passes from one medium to another
b. None of these
c. The change in frequency of light
d. Reversal of direction of propagation of light at the interface of two media as light
passes from one medium to another
3. Blue colour of clear sky is due to phenomenon of:
a. Reflection
b. Scattering
c. Refraction
d. Dispersion
4. A plano-convex lens acts like a concave mirror of 28 cm focal length when its plane
surface is silvered and like a concave mirror of 10 cm focal length when its curved
surface is silvered. What is the refractive index of the material of the lens?
a. 1.65
b. 1.60
c. 1.55
d. 1.50
5. According to Snell’s law
a. The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of angle of refraction is

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 constant
b. The ratio of the cosine of the angle of incidence to the cosine of angle of refraction
is constant
c. The ratio of the angle of incidence to the angle of refraction is constant
d. The ratio of the tangent of the angle of incidence to the tangent of angle of
refraction is constant

6. If a telescope is inverted, will it be able to work as a microscope?

7. Magnifying power of a simple microscope is inversely proportional to the focal length

of the lens. What then stops us from using a convex lens of smaller and smaller focal
length and achieving greater and greater magnifying power?

8. Which of the two main parts of an optical fibre has a higher value of refractive index?

9. What is the magnification produced by a single convex lens used as a simple

microscope in normal use?

10. Does short sightedness (myopia) or long sightedness (hypermetropia ) imply

necessarily that the eye has partially lost its ability of accommodation? If not, what
might cause these defects of vision?

11. A tank is filled with water to a height of 12.5 cm. The apparent depth of a needle lying
at the bottom of the tank is measured by a microscope to be 9.4 cm. What is 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 have to be moved to focus
on the needle agains?

12. A person with a normal near point (25 cm) using a compound microscope with
objective of focal length 8.0 mm and an eye piece of focal length 2.5 cm can bring an
object placed 9.0 mm from the objective in sharp focus. What is the separation
between the two lenses? Calculate the magnifying power of the microscope.

13. A prism is made of glass of unknown refractive index. A parallel beam of light is
incident on a face of the prism. The angle of minimum deviation is measured to be
40°. What is the refractive index of the material of the prism? The refracting angle of
the prism is 60°. If the prism is placed in water predict the new angle of minimum

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 deviation of a parallel beam of light.

14. A prism of refractive index of has a refracting angle of 60°. At what angle must a
ray be incident on it so that it suffers a minimum deviation?

15. Two convex lenses A and B of focal lengths 20 cm and 10 cm are placed coaxially 10
cm apart. An object is placed on the common axis at a distance of 10 cm from lens A.
Find the position and magnification of the final image.

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Class - 12 Physics (Ray Optics and optical Instruments)
Answers

1. (b) Convex, 6 cm

Explanation:

fB = -30 cm

u = -10 cm
m = -3
v/u = -3, or v = -3u.

On solving, fA = +6 cm. Hence lens is convex (since focal length is positive).

2. (a) Change of direction of propagation of light at the interface of two media as light
passes from one medium to another
Explanation: Refraction is a phenomenon that often occurs when light travel from a
medium with a given refractive index to a medium with another at an oblique angle.
At the boundary between the media, velocity of light is altered, usually causing a
change in direction.
3. (b) Scattering
Explanation: Particles of atmosphere in clear sky are very small in size.
According to Rayleigh's criteria for scattering, scattering
Since wavelength of violet, indigo and blue are very short hence they are scattered the
most, resulting in blue appearance of sky.
4. (c) 1.55
Explanation: A plano-convex lens behaves as a concave mirror if its one surface
(curved) is silvered. The rays refracted from plane surface are reflected from curved
surface and again refract from plane surface. Therefore, in this lens two refractions
and one reflection occur. Let the focal length of silvered lens is F and focal length of

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 mirror is f(m)
1/F = 1/f + 1/f +1/f(m)
Plano-convex lens silvered on plane side has f(m) = infinity
1/F = 2/f + 1/ infinity
1/F = 2/f
f = 28 2 = 56 cm
Plano-convex lens silvered on convex side has f(m) = R/2
1/F = 2/f + 2/ R
1/10 = 2/56 + 2/R
R = 280/9 cm
Now

if we put all value

5. (a) The ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of angle of refraction is
constant
Explanation: The ratio of sine of angle of incidence and sine of angle of refraction is
constant for a given pair of media for a given wavelength of light.

6. The objective and eyepiece of the microscope should have small focal lengths. But the
objective of the telescope has large focal length and larger aperture than the eyepiece.
Therefore, the inverted telescope would not work as a microscope.

7. First, grinding lenses of very small focal lengths is not easy. More important, if you
decrease focal length, aberrations become more pronounced. So, in practice, you can't
get a magnifying power of more than 3 or so with a simple convex lens. However,
using an aberration corrected lens system, one can increase this limit by a factor of 10
or so.

8. The two main parts of the optical fibre are:

i) core and,
ii) cladding.
The refractive index of core is greater than that of cladding.

9. The magnification produced by a single convex lens is,

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 M= .

Where, M is the magnification,f is the focal length.

10. No, a person may have normal ability of accommodation and yet he may be myopic or
hypermetropic.
In fact, myopia arises when length of eye ball (from front to back) gets elongated and
hypermetropic arises when length of eye ball gets shortened.
However, when eye ball has normal length, but the eye lens losses partially its power
of accommodation, the defect is called presbiopia.

11. Case I: Given, real depth = 12.5 cm apparent depth = 9.4 cm

As,
or
Case II : real depth = 12.5 cm
Apparent depth

Distance through which microscope has to be moved downward.

12. Here, u0 = -0.9cm, f0 = 0.8cm

As,

or v0 = 7.2 cm

Now for the eyepiece, we have

fe = 2.5cm, ve = -D, ue = ?

or
Separation between the two lenses

= 7.2 + 2.27 = 9.47 cm

Magnifying power,

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13. A = 60°,

After the prism is placed in water,

or

or
on simplification .

14. For minimum deviation i = e.

Therefore,
or for minimum i = r

Now,

or

sin 30°

Hence,

15. From figure below, we have, for lens A

f1 = +20cm and u1 = -10cm

The image distance v1 is given by

which gives v1 = -20 cm

Thus, a virtual image is formed at I1 at a distance of 20 cm from lens A, if the lens B

were absent. This image acts as a virtual object for lens B which forms the final image
at I2 at a distance v2 from lens B. For lens B we have,

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x = 10 cm, u2 = -(20 + 10) = -30 cm f2 = + 10 cm

The image distance v2 is given by

Which gives v2 = +15cm

Thus, a real image I2 is formed at a distance of 15 cm from lens B.

Magnification due to A
Magnification due to B
Magnification of the final image is

This shows that the final image is inverted and is of the same size as the object.

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