Revision TERM1 class: x

1. Two lenses have power of (1) +2D (2)-4D. What is the nature and focal length of
each lens?
(b) An object is kept at a distance of 100 cm from the lens having power of -4 D.
Calculate image
distance..

2. Study the figure below:

(a) Name the lens L'.

(b) What are the points F and F"?
(c) Complete the diagram to show the final image formed.

3. A ray of monochromatic light in air is incident on a glass slab:

(i) Draw a labelled ray diagram showing the change in the path of the ray till it
emerges from the glass slab.
(ii) Name the two rays that are parallel to each other.
(iii) Mark the lateral displacement in your diagram

4.An object 5 cm high is held 25 cm away from a converging lens of focal length 10
cm. Draw the ray diagram and find the position, size and the nature of image formed

5. How many alpha and beta particles are emitted when uranium nucleus 𝑈238 92
decays to lead 𝑃𝑏206 82 ?
6. A person is tuning his radio set to a particular station.
(a) What is the person trying to do to tune it?
(b) Name the phenomenon involved, in tuning the radio set.
(c) Define the phenomenon named by you in part (b)."

7.What is nuclear fission? Complete the following reaction using the appropriate
subscripts or superscripts where missing
 8. Draw a diagram to show that white light can be split up into different colours.
Draw another diagram to show how the colours can be combined to give the
effect of white light.

9. Two pendulums C and D are suspended from a wire as shown in the

figure.Pendulum C is made to oscillate by displacing it from its mean position.
It is seen that D also starts oscillating.
(a) Name the type of oscillation, C will execute. (b) Name the type of oscillation, D
will execute.
(c) If the length of D is made equal to C, then what difference will you notice in the
oscillations of D?
(d) What is the name of the phenomenon when the length of D is made equal to C?

10.A man standing between two cliffs produces a sound and hears two successive
echoes at intervals of 3 s and 4 s respectively. Calculate the distance between the
two cliffs. The speed of sound in the air is 330 m/s.
(b) Why will an echo not be heard when the distance between the source of sound and
the reflecting surface is 10 m?

11. An element ASZ decays to 85R222 after emitting 8 α particles and 6 β particle.
Find the atomic number and atomic mass of the element S.?

12 .complete the following nuclear changes

12. A radioactive element ZXA loses two successive alpha particles, followed by an
beta -particle, such that the resulting nuclides isYPQ. Find the values of P ,Q

13.John fires a gun towards a hill and hears its echo after 5 seconds. He then moves
320 m towards the hill and fires his gun again. This time he hears the echo after 3
seconds. Calculate i) the velocity of sound and ii) distance between the original
position of man & the hill.

14. A postage stamp appears raised by 7mm when placed under a rectangular glass
block of R.I is 1.5. Find the thickness of the glass block

15 Arrange in descending order

i) refractive index – B, V, R ii) critical angle of -I, O, G iii) wavelength -B, R, Y
iv) deviation – Y, V, G

16. Where should an object be placed in front of a lens in order to get (i) an enlarged
real image (ii) enlarged virtual image? Name the lens

17. If the image formed by a lens is diminished in size and erect, for all positions of
the object, what type of lens is it? Name the point on the lens through which a ray of
light passes undeviated. An object is placed perpendicular to the principal axis of a
convex lens of focal length 20 cm. The distance of the object from the lens is 30 cm.
Find (i) the position (ii) the magnification and (iii) the nature of the image formed

18. An erect image and erect image 3 times the size of the object is obtained with a
convex lens of radius of curvature 36 cm. Calculate : a) the position of the object. b)
position of image ?
19. Light travels from air to glass. Angle of incidence and refraction are 45° and 30°
resp. (a) calculate the refractive index of glass with respect to air.
(b) calculate the speed of light in glass.

20. Name the system which enables us to locate underwater objects by transmitting
ultrasonic waves and detecting the reflecting impulse. (ii) What are acoustically
measurable quantities related to pitch and loudness?

21. The refractive index of water is 1.33 at a certain temperature. When the
temperature of water is increased by 40oC, the refractive index changes to ‘x’. State
whether x < 1.33 or x > 1.33.

22. Figure shows a light (blue+red+green) incident on a prism and on a parallel sided
glass slab. Complete the diagrams by drawing the refracted and the emergent rays.

23. Arrange α, ẞ and γ rays in ascending order with respect to their:

(a) Penetrating power. (b) Ionising power. (c) Biological effect.

24. (i) Mention one use and one harmful effect of radioactivity?
(ii) What is meant by back ground radiation?
(iii) Suggest one effective way from the safe disposal of nuclear waste

25. Which one of the following graphs A or B shows free vibrations in vacuum and
which one shows free vibrations in a medium?
(b) How did you come to this conclusion
26. i. Define scattering of light? During the day: (a) Clouds appear white.
(b) Sky appears blue.? Explain

27. If, in nuclear fission of a piece of uranium, 5g of mass is lost, how much energy in
kWh and MeV is obtained?

28. A vibrating tuning fork is placed over the mouth of a burette, filled with water.
The tap of the burette is opened and the water level gradually starts falling. It is found
that the sound from the tuning fork becomes very loud for a particular length of the
water column.
(i) Name the phenomenon taking place when this happens.
(ii) Why does the sound become very loud for this length of the water column?

29. (i) Write two properties common to all the electromagnetic radiations.
(ii) Give one use each of infrared and ultraviolet radiations

30. A ray of light enters a glass. The critical angle of glass is 42o. Complete the path of
the ray till it emerges out from the slab. Mark the angles in the diagram wherever
necessary

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