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2019/20 Academic Year Physics Final Exam for Grade10Section ______

Teachers’ Name:Mr.Mehari B., Mr. Tariku T.& Mr.Abiy B. Date፡ ____________
Student’s Name:________________________ Time allowed: 2፡00
Student’s Name ___________________________ Section ____ Time allotted 1:00
I. Write ‘True’ if the statement is correct or ‘False’ if it is incorrect.
_______ 1. Light propagates in a straight line.
_______ 2. Focal length is the distance between pole and principal focus of a mirror.
_______ 3. If the magnification of an image is positive, the image is inverted and real.
_______ 4. A straight rod partially immersed in water appears bent due to refraction of light.
_______ 5. Law of reflection applies to both regular and diffuse reflections.
_______ 6. The SI unit of power of a lens is meter.
_______ 7. Images formed by concave lenses are always real and inverted.
_______ 8. If retina is to eye, lens is to camera.
_______ 9. The phenomenon of breaking a white light into seven constituent colors is known as diffraction.
_______ 10. Red color of light has the largest wave length compared to other colors of light.
II. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives and write the letter on the
space provided.
_______ 1. Which one is an electromagnetic wave?
A. Sound B. light C. water wave D. Seismic wave
_______ 2. Which one of the following electromagnetic waves emitted from the sun warms the surface of the earth?
A. Radio wave B. infrared wave C. gamma rays D. UV-rays
_______ 3. The reflection of light from a white sheet of paper is:
A. Regular reflection C. specular reflection
B. Diffuse reflection D. Neither regular nor diffuse
_______ 4. A movie projector lens produces animage that is visible on a screen. What type of image is it?
A. Real image C. It can be either real or virtual
B. Virtual image D. impossible to determine
_______ 5. A man saw his image on a mirror which is the same size as him and virtual. What kind of mirror
did he use?

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 A. Plane mirror B. Curved mirror C. convex mirror D. concave mirror
_______ 6. How many images will be formed if an object is placed between two parallel plane mirrors?
A. 1 B. 36 C. infinite D. unknown
_______ 7. The figure below is a concave mirror. The point indicated by 2 is:

1 2 3 4

A. Principal focus C. pole

B. Center of curvature D. focal point
_______ 8. The radius of curvature of a convex mirror is 10cm. What is its focal length?
A. 5cm B. 20cm C. 0.1cm D. 2.5cm
_______ 9. An object is placed 10cm far from a concave mirror of focal length 5cm. All of the following are
properties of the image formed by the mirror except:
A. Real C. formed 5cm far from the mirror
B. Inverted D. formed 10cm far from the mirror
_______ 10. Which type of mirror is used to make rear view mirrors of cars?
A. Plane mirror C. concave mirror
B. Convex mirror D. either convex or concave mirror
_______ 11. A boy stands 15cm away from a concave mirror of focal length 20cm. What is the magnification?
A. 0.25 B. 2 C. 0.75 D. 4
_______ 12. In myopia (short sight), image is formed:
A. In front of the retina C. on the retina
B. Behind the retina D. no image is formed
_______ 13. What do we call the loss of the ability of eye to focus on near and far object with advancing age?
A. Astigmatism B. Presbyopia C. hyperopia D. myopia
_______ 14. Diffraction of light is difficult to notice than diffraction of sound. This is because light:
A. has smallest wavelength C. is perceived by eye
B. is electromagnetic wave D. is transverse wave
_______ 15. What is the wavelength of light of frequency 100Hz?
A. 2 × 106 𝑚 B. 3 × 106 𝑚 C. 4 × 106 𝑚 D. 5 × 106 𝑚

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_______ 16. A light wave of frequency 5 × 104 𝐻𝑧 enters a medium of refractive index 1.5. What is the speed
of light in the medium?
A. 2 × 108 𝑚⁄𝑠 B. 3.5 × 108 𝑚⁄𝑠 C. 4 × 108 𝑚⁄𝑠 D.6 × 108 𝑚⁄𝑠
_______ 17. Which color of light refracts the most when it passes from air to prism?
A. red B. blue C. yellow D. violet
_______ 18. Which one is NOT optical instrument?
A. Microscope B. periscope C. galvanoscope D. telescope
_______ 19. The sign of focal length is negative for:
A. Convex mirror B. Concave mirror C. convex lens D. except B
_______ 20. Light enters the surface of a glass and leaves the glass as shown in the figure below. Angle of
incidence and angle of refraction are represented by numbers 1,2 and 3. Which relation between the
angles is correct?

1
air
A. 1=2
2 glass B. 2=3
C. 1=3
3 air D. 1=2=3
_______ 21. What is the critical angle for an optical media of refractive index 2 when light moves from the
medium to air?
(𝑠𝑖𝑛30° = 0.5, 𝑠𝑖𝑛45° = 0.77, 𝑠𝑖𝑛60° = 0.86 𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑛90° = 1, 𝑛𝑎𝑖𝑟 = 1)
A. 30° B. 45° C. 60° D. 90°
_______ 22. An object is placed at F1 in front of a convex lens. Which statement is NOT correct about the
property of the image formed?
A. The image is real C. The image is formed at 2F2
B. The image is inverted D. The image is magnified
_______ 23. When a light beam is refracted, which quantity remains unchanged?
A. Wavelength B. Wave speed C. frequency D. A and C
III. Fill in the blank space with appropriate word or phrase.
1. ___________________describes the number of times the image is less than or greater than the object.
2. Whenever light crosses the boundary between two transparent media, the ratio of the sine of the angle
of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is constant. This law is known as
____________________law of refraction.
3. The ability of eye to focus on objects at varying distances is called ____________________.

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IV. Work out the following questions by showing all the necessary steps.
4. An object is placed 20cm away from a convex lens. If the image is formed 40cm far from the lens,
then what is the focal length of the lens?

5. What is the wavelength of a light wave whose frequency is 600nm?

6. When light moves from vacuum to a medium, the angle of incidence and angle of refraction
respectively are 53° and 37°. What is the refractive index of the medium?
(Sin37°=0.6 & sin53°=0.8)

7. A man stands 20cm far from a concave mirror. If the focal length of the mirror is 30cm, what will
be the magnification of the image? (Note that M can be positive or negative)

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