Physics

Chapter 2 – Light
Sample Paper-2
MM.25

General Instruction:
I. All questions are compulsory.
II. Question No. 1 and 2 carry one mark each.
III. Question No. 3 to 5 carries two marks each.
IV. Question No. 6 to 9 carries three marks each.
V. Question No.10 carries 5 marks.

Question 1: (1)
How is the refractive index of water related to the real depth and the apparent depth of a
column of water?

Question 2: (1)
What is meant by refraction?

Question 3: (2)
Draw a ray diagram to illustrate the bending of a stick in water.

Question 4: (2)
Water in a pond appears to be only three quarter of its actual depth.

a. What property of light is responsible for this observation?

b. Illustrate your answer with the help of a ray diagram.

Question 5: (2)
State Snell’s law of refraction.

Question 6: (3)
a. Mention two properties of a wave: one property which varies and the other which
remains constant when the wave passes from one medium to another.
b.
Question 7: (3)
Draw a ray diagram to illustrate how a ray of light incident obliquely on one face of a
rectangular glass slab of uniform thickness emerges parallel to its original direction. Mention
which pairs of angles are equal.
Question 8: (3)
Draw a ray diagram of an image formed by slide projector. State the factors on which the
deviation produced by a prism depends.

Question 9: (3)
What is a prism? With the help of a diagram of a prism, indicate its refracting surfaces,
refracting edge and base.

Question 10: (5)

a. Draw a ray diagram to illustrate how a ray of light incident obliquely on one face of a
rectangular glass slab of uniform thickness emerges parallel to its original direction.
Mention which pairs of angles are equal.
b. The refractive index of air with respect to glass is defined as
gμ = sin i / sin r
a
i. Write down a similar expression for a μ g in terms of angle i and angle r.
ii. (ii) In (i) above, if angle r = 90º what is the corresponding angle i called?
iii. What is the physical significance of i in part (ii) above?