EXPERIMENT NO.

– 2

SECTION – A

(0.5 MARK)
1.
During the passage of ray of light from one medium to
another, the ray
(a) changes its path (b) follows the same path
(c) laterally displaced (d) none of these
2.
When the rays travel from one medium to another, it
changes its path. It is due to:
(a) change in frequency (b) change in speed of light
(c) change in wavelength (d) all of these
3.
When light travels from air to glass, it bends
(a) away from normal
(b) parallel to air-glass interface
(c) towards normal
(d) retrace its path
4.
The amount by which a ray of light bends when it enters
the glass from air, depends on the
(a) frequency of light in glass
(b) speed of light in air
(c) wavelength of light in air
(d) speed of light in glass
5.
Which of the following figure shows the traveling of light
from rarer (R) to denser (D) medium?
(a) Figure (I) and (IV) only (b) Figure (II) and (III) only
(c) Figure (III) only (d) Figure (I) only
6.
A student tracing the path of ray passing through the
rectangular glass-slab. He/she should fix the pins on the
board
(a) vertically
(b) not be hammered
(c) proper alignment of the feet of a pin
(d) all of these
7.
The emergent ray from the glass slab and incident ray are
(a) parallel to each other (b) perpendicular
(c) laterally displaced (d) both (a) and (c)
8.
The ratio of the sine of incident angle to the since of
refracted angle is called
(a) Snell’s law (b) refractive index
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) neither (a) nor (b)
9.
For a given pair of air-glass interface, a student
increases the angle of incidence, he found refracting
angle will
(a) decrease
(b) increase
(c) remain the same
(d) first decrease then increase
10. n21 is called
(a)
refractive index of 2nd medium with respect to 1st
medium
(b)
refractive index of the 1st medium with respect to
2nd medium
(c)
absolute refractive index of 2nd medium
(d)
absolute refractive index of 1st medium
11. A student, while tracing the path of ray of light,
passing through the glass-slab, fix two pins vertically
on a inclined straight line and look the images of
these pins from the other side and fix two other pins
such that
(a) his eye and feet of the pins are in a straight line
(b) his eye and head of pins are in a straight line
(c) his eye and middle point of pins are in a straight
line
(d) his eye and feet of all pins are in different line
12. A student tries to plot a graph between sin i and
sin r. Which of the following represents correct
graph?
(a) Figure (III) only (b) Figure (II) only
(c) Figure (I) only (d) None of these
13. When the incident ray falls normally on the glass
slab. The emergent ray will be:
(a) parallel to the incident ray
(b) deviates at an angle of 30o
(c) goes straight through the glass slab
(d) angle of refraction is greater than the incident angle
14. A ray of light traveling in water emerges into air. It will
bend
(a) towards normal
(b) away from normal
(c) go straight
(d) parallel and laterally displaced
15. Refraction is caused by the change in
(a) speed of light
(b) refractive index of the medium
(c) frequency
(d) All of these
16. When the ray of light is going from rarer to denser
medium, the incident and refraction angles are related as
(a)i=r
(b)i>r
(c)i<r
(d)i £ r
17. When the ray of light is going from denser to rarer
medium, the angle of refraction is always
(a) smaller than the angle of incident
(b) equal to the angle of incidence
(c) greater than the angle of incidence
(d) all of these
18. In a parallel face glass slab, the refraction occurs
(a) at one side only
(b) at both the parallel opposite sides
(c) twice but from the adjacent sides
(d) all the four sides
19. The incident ray and emergent ray are parallel to each
other because the refraction takes place from the faces of
glass slab which are only
(a) parallel
(b) perpendicular
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) neither (a) nor (b)
20. The speed of light in glass is
(a) equal as in air
(b) greater than the speed in air
(c) equal to the speed of sound
(d) less than the speed of light in air
21. The relation between emergent angle and angle of
incidence is
(a)e=i
(b)e>i
(c)e<i
(d)e=2i
22. A medium in which light travels faster is called
(a) optically denser medium
(b) optically rarer medium
(c) less denser medium
(d) none of the above
23. When light travels from glass to water, its speed
(a) increases (b) decreases
(c) remains the same (d) none of these
24. Refraction of light takes place only when light goes from
(a) optically rarer medium to an optically denser medium
(b) optically denser to optically rarer medium
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) neither (a) nor (b)
25. In the glass slab experiment, four students A, B, C and D
did the following:
A : kept the eyes far from the glass slab while placing both
the pins P3 and P4.
B : kept the eyes close to the glass slab while placing both
the pink P3 and P4.
C : kept
the eyes close to the glass slab while
placing pin P3 and far from the slab while placing
pin P4.
D : kept
the eyes far from the glass slab while
placing pin P3 and close to the slab while placing
pin P4.
The correct procedure is that of student:

(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
26. In the experiment to trace the path of a ray of light
through a rectangular glass slab using pins P1, P2,
P3 and P4, four students did the following:
A : looked at heads of P1 and P2 while placing P3,
and heads of P1, P2 and P3 while placing P4.
B : looked at feet of P1 and P2 while placing P3, and
feet of P1, P2 and P3 while placing P4.
C : looked at heads of P1 and P2 while placing P3,
and feet of all the pins while placing P4.
D : looked at feet of P1 and P2 while placing P3, and
heads of all the pins while placing P4.
The correct procedure is that of student:

(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
27. In an experiment to trace the path of a ray of light
passing through a rectangular glass slab, the correct
measurement of angles of incidence (i), refraction (r)
and emergence (e) is shown in diagram:
(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
28. At the point of emergence, angle of emergence
measured with respect to
(a) normal drawn at the point of emergence
(b) edge of the glass slab
(c) perpendicular edge of glass slab
(d) direction of incident ray
29. Lateral displacement produced by the refracted ray
is directly proportional to
(a) angle of incidence
(b) angle of refraction
(c) angle of reflection
(d) thickness of glass slab
30. Which of the following figures shows correct labeling
of angles where symbols have their usual
meanings?
(a) Fig. (i) and (ii) only (b) Fig. (ii) and (ii) only
(c) Fig. (iii) only (d) Fig. (iv) only
31. The unit of refractive index is:
(a) m/s
(b) km/h
(c) m/s2
(d) It has no unit
(1 MARK)

SECTION – B

32. In passing through a glass plane obliquely, a ray of light

(a) neither converges nor diverges
(b) is displaced parallel to itself
(c) moves in the same direction
(d) both (a) and (b)
33. A rectangular glass-slab is made of two transparent media
b and c bounded by a parallel face. A ray of light incident
on a air – b interface, then:
(a) anb ´ bnc=1 (b) anb ´ bnc ´ can = 1
(c) bnc ´ anb = can (d) none of these
34. When the light goes from one medium to another medium,
which of the following does not change?
(a) wavelength (b) speed
(c) intensity
(d) frequency
35. For the same angle of incidence, the angle of refraction in
medium A, B and C are 45o, 35o, 20o respectively. The
velocity of light will be minimum in the medium
(a)A
(b)B
(c) C
(d) both (a) and (b)
36. A student traces the path of ray of light passing through
glass slab. He performs the experiment first by using blue
colour pins and then repeats the experiment with red
colour pins for the same angle of incidence. He compares
the angle of refraction at the air-glass interface of both the
observations. Which relation he would find to be true?
(a)rR>rv
(b)rR<rv
(c)rR=rv
(d)rR=rv=i
37. When light travels from an optically rarer medium to an
optically denser medium, the velocity of light decreases
because of change in
(a) frequency (b) amplitude
(c) wavelength (d) time period
38. If a glass rod is immersed in a liquid of the same refractive
index, then it will
(a) appear to be longer (b) appear to be shorter
(c) glass rod will disappear (d) none of these
39. A beam of light composed of red and green rays is incident
obliquely at a point on the face of a rectangular glass-slab.
When coming out from the opposite parallel face, the red
and green colours emerge from
(a)
one point propagating in two different directions
(b)
one point propagating in the same direction
(c)
two points propagating in two different parallel
directions
(d) two points propagating in same direction
40. Out of the four set-ups shown for carrying out the
experiment to trace the path of a ray of light through
a rectangular glass slab, the best set up is:
(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
41. Four students showed the following traces of the
path of a ray of light passing through a rectangular
glass slab.
The trace most likely to be correct is that of student:

(a)A(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
42. In an experiment to trace the path of a ray of light passing
through a rectangular glass slab, four students tabulated
their observations as given below.
S.
No.
Aangle of
incidence
(degree)
Angle of
refraction
(degree)
Angle of
emergence
(degree)
A
1
2
3
30
45
60
18
28
35
32
43
60
B
1
2
3
30
45
60
15
20
28
38
53
67
C
1
2
3
30
45
60
10
15
22
31
44
60
D
1
2
3
30
45
60
28
40
56
28
40
60

The student most likely to have done the experiment

property is:

(a)A
(b)B
(c)C
(d)D
43. Difference between the angle of emergence and angle of
incidence is:
(a) 180o
(b) 90o
(c) 0o
(d) 30o
44. Teacher advises the student, that he should take the angle
of incidence not more than 60o. This is because for higher
angle of incidence, the emergent ray
(a) moves along the same path
(b) tends to graze along the slab
(c) tends to move along the normal
(d) none of these
45. In an experiment to trace the path of a ray of light passing
through a rectangular glass slab, student must take the
precaution/s
(a) Range of incident angle should be 300 – 60o
(b) The eye must be in line with the feet of pins
(c) The
alpines used must have sharp point and
stand vertically on the board
(d) All the three
46. A student tries to trace the path of light with the
glass slab whose two opposite faces are not parallel
with each other. He observe
(a) Emergent ray is not parallel to incident ray
(b) Emergent ray is parallel to incident ray
(c) Emergent
angle depends upon the refractive
index of the medium
(d) Both (a) and (c) only
47. Which of the following phenomena is produced by
refraction of light?
(a) A pencil partly immersed in water appears bent.
(b) The bottom of water tank appears to be raised.
(c) A coin is placed at bottom of water tank appears
to be raised
(d) All of these
48. In the given figure MN represents the lateral
displacement of a ray of light emerging out from a
rectangular glass slab of thickness AB. If the
thickness of the glass slab is increased to AC, the
lateral displacement will be:
(a) remains the same
(b) less than MN
(c) more than MN
(d) zero as the ray emerges out
ANSWERS

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11. a
12. c
13. c
14. b
15. a
16. b
17. c
18. b
19. a
20. d
21. a
22. b
23. a
24. c
25. a
26. b
27. a
28. a
29. d
30. c
31. d
32. d
33. b
34. d
35. c
36. a
37. c
38. c
39. b
40. b
41. b
42. a
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44. b
45. d
46. d
47. d
48. c