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Test 3A (Lower tier) (Book 3A)

A Multiple-choice questions (6 marks)

1 The figure on the right shows two light rays from a doll
entering Mary’s eye. Which of the following statements
Mary
is/are correct? doll

(1) Every point on the doll emits converging rays.

(2) If the doll is very far away, the two light rays shown will be approximately parallel.
(3) Only two light rays enter Mary’s eyes.
A (1) only
B (2) only
C (1) and (2) only
D (2) and (3) only

2 Which of the following situations are possible?

(1) (2) glass (3) air
glass air glass
air

A (1) and (2) only

B (1) and (3) only
C (2) and (3) only
D (1), (2) and (3)

3 Light rays parallel to the principal axis converge to point X L

Q
after passing through the convex lens L. If parallel light rays
P R
are incident on the lens at an angle as shown in the figure, X
which point will the rays most likely converge to? S

A P
B Q
C R
D S

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B Short questions (24 marks)

4 A diver is looking upwards under a large tank of liquid. He finds that the angle of the fish-
eye view is 95.

air
liquid
tank angle of fish-
95
eye view
O
diver
15 m

(a) What is the critical angle for the liquid-air interface? (1 mark)
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(b) What is the refractive index of the liquid? (2 marks)

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(c) Object O is 15 m from the diver’s eye and is at the same level as the eye. It is at the
closest position that can be seen by the diver from the total internal reflection of the
liquid surface. How far is the diver below the liquid surface? (2 marks)
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(d) If another object is placed vertically below O, can light rays from it reach the diver’s eye
by total internal reflection? (1 mark)
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5 David is facing a large mirror as shown in the following figure (as viewed from top). The
point R0 indicates his position. He finds that his image in the mirror is laterally inverted.

M
1m

R0

(a) In addition to being laterally inverted, state four other properties of the image produced
by a plane mirror. (2 marks)

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(b) Locate the image of R0 formed by M. Denote the image as R0. (1 mark)
(c) At t = 0, David starts walking backwards at a speed of 0.5 m s–1. Locate his position at
t = 4 s in the diagram. Denote his position as R1. (1 mark)
(d) Locate the image of R1 formed by M. Denote the image as R1. (1 mark)
(e) Hence find the speed of the image of David. (1 mark)

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 (f) When David is at point R2, he sees Mary standing at point S through the mirror, as
shown in the following diagram. Draw a ray diagram to show how David sees the image
of Mary. Denote the image of Mary by S. (3 marks)

R2 S

6 (a) State the three properties of the images formed by a concave lens. (3 marks)
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(b) An object is placed 40 cm in front of a concave lens. Given that the magnification of its
image is 0.5, find the focal length of the lens graphically. (4 marks)

10 cm

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(c) The object is slowly moved towards the lens and eventually touches it. Describe how the
size of the image changes in the process. (2 marks)
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Solutions to Test 3A (Lower tier)

1 B
2 A
Since air is optically less dense than glass, (3) is not possible.
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3 D
Parallel light rays converge to a point on the focal plane, which contains Q, X and S. From the
initial direction of travel of the rays, it can be seen that they will most likely converge to S.
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4

(a) C= = 47.5 1A

(b) n= = = 1.36 1M + 1A

(c) The diver sees O at the critical angle.

liquid surface
47.5
h

O diver
15 m

1M
From the graph, tan 47.5 =

h = 6.87 m 1A
(d) No. 1A
5
(a) Virtual, erect, same size as the object, same distance from the mirror as 0.5A × 4
the object.
(b)–(d)

R1

R0
M2
1m
R0

R1

(Correct positions for R0, R1 and R1) 1A + 1A + 1A

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 (e) Speed = = 0.5 m s–1 1A

(f)
S

R2 S

(Correct location of S) 1A

(Correct light rays) 1A
(Reflected light rays extend to S) 1A
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(a) The images formed by a concave lens are always erect, virtual and 1A + 1A + 1A
diminished.
(b) Since the magnification is 0.5, the image must be located mid-way between
the object and the lens. Also its height is half of the object. Therefore, we
can draw the following ray diagram.

object

focus image

10 cm

(Correct image position and size) 1A

(Correct light rays) 1A
(Correct position of the focus) 1A
From the ray diagram, the focal length of the lens is 40 cm. 1A
(c) The size of the image increases as the object distance decreases 1A
When the object touches the lens, the image is of the same size as the
object. 1A

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