DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL, SEC 14, GURUGRAM

CLASS XII

OPTICS

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1.The line AB in the ray diagram represents a lens. State whether the lens is convex or concave.

2. How does the focal length of a lens change when the red incident light on it is replaced by a
violet light?

3. How does the angle of minimum deviation of a glass prism vary if the incident violet light is
replaced by red light?

4. Draw a ray diagram to show how a right angled isosceles prism may be used to bend the path
of light rays by 90°.

5. What is the shape of wavefront on earth for sunlight?

6. Which of the following can be polarized (i) Heat waves (ii) Sound waves? Give reason.

7. How does the resolving power of a compound microscope gets affected on decreasing the diameter
of its objective?

8. Two polaroids are placed with their optic axis perpendicular to each other. One of them is rotated
through 45, what is the intensity of light emerging from the second polaroid if Io is the intensity of
unpolarised light?

9. The value of Brewster angle for a transparent medium is different for lights of different colours.
(True/ False)

10. In a single- slit diffraction experiment, when the width of the slit is made double the original width
then
(i) the size of the central diffraction band is ______________
(ii) intensity of the central diffraction band becomes ______________