Important Questions

Class XII

2010-2011

Physics : Optics

Total Marks =58

Questions having one mark each:( 1 x 6 = 6)

1. Calculate the speed of light in a medium whose critical angle is 30°.

2. A glass lens of refractive index 1.45 disappears when immersed in a liquid. What is the
value of refractive index of the liquid?
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5. Wavelength of light used in an optical instrument A = 4000 A and A = 5000 A. What

is the ratio of their respective resolving powers.
6. How would the angular separation of interference fringes in Young's double slit
experiment change when the distance of separation between the slits and the screen
is doubled?

Questions having 2 marks each: (2 x 7 = 14)

1. Find the radius of curvature of the convex surface of a plano-convex lens, whose focal
length is 0.3 m and the refractive index of the material of the lens is 1.5.
2. (i) Out of blue and red light which is deviated more by a prism? Give reason.
(ii) Give the formula that can be used to determine refractive index of materials of a
prism in minimum deviation condition.
3. In a single slit diffraction experiment, if the width of the slit is doubled, how does the
(i) intensity of light and (ii) width of the central maximum change ? Give reasons for
Your answer.
4. A ray of light through an equilateral glass prism, such that the angle of incidence is
equal to the angle of emergence. If the angle of emergence is 3/4 times the angle of
 the prism, calculate the refractive index of the glass prism.
5. Use mirror formula to show that for an object lying between the pole and focus of a
concave mirror. the image formed is always virtual in nature.
6. State the conditions for total internal ret1ection of light to take place at an interface
separating two transparent media. Hence derive the expression for the critical angle in
terms of the speeds of light in the two media.
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Questions having 3 mark each: (3 x 6 = 18)

1. What is an unpolarized light? Explain with the help of suitable ray diagram how an
unpolarized light can be polarized by reflection from a transparent medium. Write the
expression for Brewster angle in terms of the refractive index of denser medium.
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3. What is a Polaroid? How is plane polarized light obtained with its help? How will you
use it to distinguish between unpolarised light and plane polarized light?
4. A converging lens has a focal length of 20cm in air.It is made of material of refractive
index 1.6. If it is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.3, what will be its new
focal length '? How does the nature of the lens change if this lens is immersed in a
liquid of refractive index1.8?
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6. State Huygens postulates of wave theory. Sketch the wavefront emerging from 'a
(i) point source of light and (ii) linear source of light like a slit.

Questions having 5 marks each: (6 x 5 = 30)

1. State Huygens’s principle. Show, with the help of a suitable diagram, how this principle
is used to obtain the diffraction pattern by a single slit.
Draw a plot of intensity distribution and explain clearly why the secondary maxima
becomes weaker with increasing order (n) of the secondary maxima.
2. Draw a ray diagram to show the working of a compound microscope. Deduce an
expression for the total magnification when the final image is formed at the near point.
In a compound microscope, an object is placed at a distance of 1.5 cm from the objective
of focal length 1.25 cm. If the eye piece has a focal length of 5 cm and the final image is
formed at the near point, estimate the magnifying power of the microscope.
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