LIGHT CHAPTER TEST

Duration 1 hr 30 mins Max marks:40

I. Following 7 questions carry 1 mark each 1 x 7=7

1. Name the phenomena of light responsible for the working of the human eye.
2. Both a spherical mirror and a thin spherical lens have a focal length of (-)15 cm. What
type of mirror and lens are these?
3. Name the spherical mirror used as:
a. Rear-view mirror in vehicles.
b. Shaving mirror
4.

Identify the optical component.

5. What is the power of a plane mirror.

For question numbers 6 and 7, two statements are given- one labeled Assertion (A) and
the other labeled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the
codes (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) as given below
i) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of the assertion.
ii) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
iii) A is true but R is false.
iv) A is false but R is true R

6. Assertion: Mirror formula may be applied to plane mirrors.

Reason: Plane mirrors are spherical mirrors of finite focal length.
7. Assertion: Red Light travels faster in glass compared to green light.
Reason: The refractive index of glass is less for red light than for green light.

II. Case Study: 2 x 4 =8

8. Read the following and answer any four questions from 8 (i) to 8 (v):
Sumati wanted to see the stars of the night sky. She knows that she needs a telescope
to see those distant stars. She finds out that the telescopes, which are made of lenses,
are called refracting telescopes and the ones which are made of mirrors are called
reflecting telescopes. So she decided to make a refracting telescope. She bought two
 lenses, L1 and L2. out of which L1 was bigger and L2 was smaller. The larger lens gathers
and bends the light, while the smaller lens magnifies the image. Big, thick lenses are
more powerful. So to see far away, she needed a big powerful lens. Unfortunately, she
realized that a big lens is very heavy. Heavy lenses are hard to make and difficult to hold
in the right place. Also 1x 48 since the light is passing through the lens, the surface of
the lens has to be extremely smooth. Any flaws in the lens will change the image. It
would be like looking through a dirty window.

8.(i) Based on the diagram shown, what kind of lenses would Sumati need to make the
telescope?
a) Concave lenses
b) Convex lenses
c) Bifocal lenses
d) Flat lenses

8.(ii) If the powers of the lenses L1 and L2 are in the ratio of 4:1, what would be the ratio of
the focal length of L1 and L2?

a) 4:1
b) 1:4
c) 2:1
d) 1:1
8.(iii) What is the formula for magnification obtained with a lens?

a) Ratio of height of image to height of object

b) Double the focal length.
c) Inverse of the radius of curvature.
d) Inverse of the object distance.

8.(iv) Sumati did some preliminary experiment with the lenses and found out that the
magnification of the eyepiece (L2) is 3. If in her experiment with L2 she found an image
at 24 cm from the lens, at what distance did she put the object?
a) 72 cm
b) 12 cm
c) 8 cm
 d) 6 cm

8.(v) Sumati bought not-so-thick lenses for the telescope and polished them. What
advantages, if any, would she have with her choice of lenses?
a) She will not have any advantage as even thicker lenses would give clearer images.
b) Thicker lenses would have made the telescope easier to handle.
c) Not-so-thick lenses would not make the telescope very heavy and also allow considerable
amount of light to pass.
d) Not-so-thick lenses will give her more magnification.

9. Read the following and answer any four questions from 9.1 to 9.5.
Sunita wants to observed the phenomenon of refraction of light when she performed
the experiment of refraction of light. She observed that When light ray goes from one
transparent medium to another transparent medium, it suffers a change in direction,
into second medium. The extent of the change in direction suffered by the phenomenon
of change in the path of light rays when going from one medium to another medium is
known as refraction. Ray is a given pair of media can be expressed in terms of refractive
index. The refractive index is related to an important physical quantity in the relative
speed of light in different media.

9.1 When light goes from one medium to another than which parameter of light wave
remain constant?
(a) Frequency
(b) Wavelength
(c) Velocity
(d) Amplitude

9.2 Refractive indices of water, sulphuric acid, glass and carbon disulphide are 1.33,
1.43, 1.53 and 1.63 respectively. The light travels slowest in
(a) sulphuric acid
(b) glass
(c) water
(d) carbon disulphide
 9.3 Light enters from air to glass having refractive index 1.50. The speed of light in
vacuum is 3 x 108 ms-1. The speed of light in the glass is?.
(a) 2 x 108 ms-1.
(b) 3 x 109 ms-1
(c) 4 x 108 ms-1
(d) 2.5 x 108 ms-1

9.4 The unit of refractive index?

(a) m/s
(b) m2/s
(c) Unit less
(d) ms

9.5 A ray of light passes from a medium A to another medium B . No bending of light
occurs if the ray of light his the boundary of medium B at an angle of
(a) 00
(b) 450
(c) 900
(d) 1200

III. Following three questions carry two mark questions 2 x 3 =6

10. Write any two differences between real and virtual images.
11. How can you identify the three types of mirrors without touching them?
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12. An image of the size of the object is formed by a convex lens at a distance of 12 cm
3
from it. Find the focal length of the lens.

IV. Following three questions carry three mark questions 3 x 3=9

13. It is desired to obtain an erect image of an object, using concave mirror of focal length of
12 cm.
(i) What should be the range of the object distance in the above case?
(ii) Will the image be smaller or larger than the object? Draw a ray diagram to show the
formation of image in this case.
(iii) Where will the image of this object be, if it is placed 24 cm in front of the mirror?

14. An object 5 cm high is kept 25 cm away from a converging lens of focal length 10 cm.
What is the nature, position and the size of the image.

15. What is the power of a lens. Write its SI unit. A student uses a lens of focal length 40 cm
and another of -20 cm. Write the nature and power of each lens.

V. Following two questions carry five mark questions 5 x 2 =10

16. (i) A lens produces a magnification of -0.5. Is this a converging or diverging lens? If the
focal length of the lens is 6 cm, draw a ray diagram showing the image formation in this
case.
(ii) A girl was playing with a thin beam of light from a laser torch by directing it from
different directions on a convex lens held vertically. She was surprised to see that in a
particular direction, the beam of light continues to move along the same direction after
passing through the lens. State the reason for her observation. Draw a ray diagram to
support your answer.

17. Rishi went to a palmist to show his palm. The palmist used a special lens for this
purpose.
(i) State the nature of the lens and reason for its use.
(ii) Where should the palmist place/hold the lens so as to have a real and magnified image of
an object ?
(iii) If the focal length of this lens is 10 cm and the lens is held at a distance of 5 cm from the
palm, use lens formula to find the position and size of the image.