Physics: Lenses and optical instruments, Experiment: Focal length of (i) Convex

mirror (ii) Concave mirror and (iii) Convex lens using parallax method (100%)

PHYSICS

1. An eye can distinguish between two points of an object if they are

separated by more than 0.22 mm when the object is placed at 25 cm from
the eye. The object is now seen by a compound microscope having a 20 D
objective and 10 D eyepiece separated by a distance of 20cm. The final
image is formed at 25 cm from the eye. What is the minimum separation
between two points of the object which can now be distinguished?

1) 0.01mm 2) 0.02mm 3) 0.03mm 4) 0.04mm

2. A convex lens of power + 6D is placed in contact with a concave lens of

power – 4D. The nature and focal length of the combination is
1) Concave, 25 cm 2) Convex, 50 cm
3) Concave, 20 cm 4) Convex, 100 cm

3. Three lenses in contact have a combined focal length of 12 cm and the

combination behaves like a converging lens. When the third lens is
60
removed, the combined focal length is cm and converging. The third
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lens is
1) Converging lens of focal length 30 cm

2) Converging lens of focal length 60 cm

3) Diverging lens of focal length 30 cm

4) Diverging lens of focal length 60 cm

4. From the figure shown establish a relation between, 1 , 2 , 3

1) 3   2  1 2) 3   2  1

3)  2  3 : 3  1 4)  2  1 : 3   2

5. The distance between an object and the screen is 100 cm. A lens produces
an image on the screen when the lens is placed at either of the positions 40
cm apart. The power of the lens is nearly:

1) 3 diopters 2) 5 diopters 3) 2 diopters

4) 9 diopters

6. The slab of a material of refractive index 2 shown in figure has curved surface
APB of radius of curvature 10 cm and a plane surface CD. On the left of APB is
air and on the right of CD is water with refractive indices as given in figure. An
object O is placed at a distance of 15 cm from pole P as shown. The distance
of the final image of O from P, as viewed from the left is
A C

P C' O 4
 
w 3
 s= 2.0
B D
15 cm
20 cm

1) 20 cm 2) 30 cm 3) 40 cm 4) 60 cm
7. In a thin spherical fish bowl of radius 10 cm filled with water of refractive
index 4/3 there is a small fish at a distance of 4 cm from the centre C as
shown in figure. Where will the image of fish appears, if seen from E (E is at
 the right end of the diameter through the fish and outside the bowl, neglect
the thickness of bowl)

C E

4 cm

1) 5.2 cm 2) 7.2 cm 3) 4.2 cm 4) 3.2 cm

8. The diameter of aperture of a plano-convex lens is 6 cm and max. Thickness
is 3 mm. If velocity of light in material is 2  108 m/s, calculate focal length
of the lens.
1) 10cm 2) 20cm 3) 15cm 4) 30cm
9. A thin equiconvex lens of refractive index 3/2 and radius of curvature 30 cm
4
is put in water (refractive index  ). Its focal length is
3
1) 0.15 m 2) 0.30m 3) 0.45 m 4) 1.20 m

10. The radius of curvature of the curved face of a thin planoconvex lens is 10
cm and it is made of glass of refractive index 1.5. A small object is
approaching the lens with a speed of 1 cm s -1 moving along the principal
axis. When the object is at a distance of 30cm from the lens, the magnitude
of the speed of its image is
1) 1cm S 1 2) 2cm S 1 3) 3cmS 1 4) 4cm S 1

11. The graph shows how the magnification m produced by a convex thin lens
varies with image distance v. What was the focal length of the used
 m

a c
v
b b bc c
1) c
2) ca
3) a
4) b

12. The distance v of the real image formed by a convex lens is measured for
various object distance u. A graph is plotted between v and u, which one of
the following graphs is correct (Distances are measured from focus)

1) 2)

3) 4)

13. The image for the converging beam after refraction through the
curved surface is formed at:

40 40 180
1) x = 40 cm 2) x  cm 3) x  cm 4) x  cm
3 3 7
14. If I1 and I2 be the size of the images respectively for the two positions of
lens in the displacement method, then the size of the object is given by

1) I1 / I2 2) I1  I2 3) I1  I2 4) I1 / I2

15. The diameter of the sun subtends an angle of 0.50 at the surface of the
earth. A converging lens of focal length 100 cm is used to provide an image
of the sun on to a screen. The diameter in mm of the image formed is about

1) 1 2) 3 3) 5 4) 9
16. A thin lens of focal length f and its aperture diameter d, forms a real image
of intensity I. Now the central part of the aperture up to diameter (d/2) is
blocked by an opaque paper. The focal length and image intensity would
change to

1) f/2, I/2 2) f, I/4 3) 3f/4, I/2 4) f, 3I/4

17. A thin symmetrical double convex lens of power P is cut into three
parts, as shown in the figure. Power of A is:

A
B

P P
1) 2P 2) 3) 4) P
2 3
18. A water drop in air refracts the light ray as (Assuming there is no real
intersection of refracted rays inside the drop)
 1) 2)

3) 4) No light

19. A Plano-convex lens, when silvered at its plane surface is

equivalent to a concave mirror of focal length 28 cm. When its
curved surface is silvered and the plane surface not silvered, it is
equivalent to a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm, then the
refractive index of the material of the lens is:

1) 9 /14 2) 14 / 9 3) 17 / 9 4) none
20. If a symmetrical biconcave thin lens is cut into two identical

halves. They are placed in different ways as shown:

Object

Fig ( i ) Fig ( ii ) Fig ( iii )

1) three images will be formed in case (i)

2) two images will be formed in the case (i)

3) the ratio of focal lengths in (ii) & (iii) is 1/2

4) the ratio of focal lengths in (ii) & (iii) is 2
21. A lens placed between a candle and a screen forms a real triply
magnified image of the candle on the screen. When the lens is
moved away from the candle by 0.8 m without changing the
position of the candle, a real image one-third the size of the
candle is formed on the screen. Determine the focal length of the
lens.

1) 30 m 2) 3 m 3) 0.3m 4) 0.2 m
22. A pin of length 2.0 cm lies along the principal axis of a converging

lens, the centre being at a distance of 11 cm from the lens. The

focal length of the lens is 6 cm. Find the size of the image.

1) 1cm 2) 3cm 3) 1. 5cm 4) 2 cm

23. A lens when placed on a plane mirror then object needle and its image

coincide at 15 cm.The focal length of the lens is

1) 15 cm 2) 30 cm 3) 20 cm 4) 7.5 cm

24. A point object ‘O’ is placed on the principal axis of a convex lens of focal

length 20 cm at a distance of 40 cm to the left of it. The diameter of the

 lens is 10 cm. An eye is placed 60 cm to right of the lens and a distance ‘h’

below the principal axis. The maximum value of h to see the image is

1) 0 2) 2.5 cm 3) 5cm 4) 10 cm
25. A screen is placed at a distance 40 cm away from an illuminated object. A
converging lens is placed between the source and screen and it is
attempted to from the image of the source on the screen. If no position
could be found, the focal length of the lens.
1) must be less that 10 cm 2) must be greater than 20 cm
3) must not be greater than 20 cm 4) must not be less than 10 cm
26. A hollow convex (having air inside) lens of glass will behave like a :
1) convex lens 2) concave lens 3) glass plate 4) mirror

27. A point object is placed at a distance of 25 cm from a convex lens of focal

length 20 cm. If a glass slab of thickness t and refractive index 1.5 is

inserted between the lens and the object the image is formed at infinity.

The thickness t is:

1) 10 cm 2) 5 cm 3) 20 cm 4) 15 cm

28. A point source of light is kept at a distance of 15 cm from a converging lens,

on its optical axis. The focal length of the lens is 10 cm and its diameter is 3
cm. A screen is placed on the other side of the lens, perpendicular to the
axis of lens, at a distance 20 cm from it. Then, the area of the illuminated
part of the screen equals :
 49 2 
1) cm 2) 49 cm2 3)  cm2 4) cm2
4 4

29. A thin convex lens having focal length 20 cm is cut into two parts, 10 mm
above the principle axis. The lower portion is placed with optical centre at
the origin and upper portion at ( 90, 0 ) as shown in the figure. A point
object is placed at ( -30, 0 ). Find the coordinates of the final image.
Assuming paraxial ray approximation to remain valid.
y

10 mm
x
( -30, 0 ) ( 0, 0 ) (90, 0)

30 cm
90 cm

1) ( 150 cm, 30 mm ) 2) ( 150 cm, -30 mm )

3) ( -150 cm, 30 mm ) 4) ( -150 cm, -30 mm )
30. A candle of length L is being moved along the axis from u  4 f towards a
converging lens of focal f . The adjacent graph represents the length of
image as a function of the image distance as shown in figure. Then the
value of L1 is:

( Length
of Image )

L1
L2

V1 V2
V ( Image distance )

L 3L
1) L 2) 3) 4) None
2 2

KEY SHEET
PHYSICS

1) 4 2) 2 3) 3 4) 3 5) 2 6) 2 7) 1 8) 4

10 11 12 13 14 15 16
9) 4 4 4 4 1 3 4 4
) ) ) ) ) ) )

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
4 2 2 1 3 2 1 2
) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

25 26 27 28 29 30
4 3 4 4 2 1
) ) ) ) ) )

SOLUTIONS
PHYSICS:-
L D  20  25 
1. M 1    1  
f0 e 5 10

 4(1  2.5)  4  3.5  14

o S 0.22
i   S1    0.0517
14 14 14
 0.02
2. P  P1  P2  6  4  2

 f  50cm, convex

100
3. P  P1  P2  P3 
12
700
P  P1  P2 
60

100 700 200

 P3   
12 60 60
 10
 P
3
8.

3

2

R
r
t

R 2  r 2  ( R  t ) 2  R 2  r 2  R 2  t 2  2 Rt

 r 2  2Rt
r2 9
R   15 cm
2t 2  35  101
1  1 1 1
 (  1)      f  30 cm
t  R  2 15

1 3  1 
10.    1    f  20cm
f  2   10 

1 1 1 1 dv 1 dv
   2 
f v u v dt u 2 dt
2
dv v 2 dv  f  du
    4 1  4
dt u 2 dt  f  u  dt

13. Conceptual
14. Conceptual
15. Conceptual
16. Conceptual
17. Conceptual
18. Conceptual
19.

= + +

1 1
= 2(  1) 
R 28

= + +

1 18 1
 2(  1)   (  1) 
28 28  10 28

5
 1 
9

14

9
20. Conceptual
v1 v 1
21. 3 2 
u1 u2 3

v2 1

u1  0.8 3

f 1

f  u  0.8 3

3 f  f  u  0.8

2 f  u  0.8

 3u  u  0.8  4u  0.8
u  0.2
22.
 12

10

A B

11
f=6 cm

(12)(6) 12  6
VA    12cm
12  6 6

(10)6 10  6 30
VB     15cm
10  6 4 2
23.
f=25

15 cm

1 1 1
 
f v u

1 1 1 40  10 40
   u 
40 10 4 30 3
u  13.3 cm

24. Conceptual
25.
1 1 1 1
  
f 4n x  40  n 

f  40 2

 2  40  40 f  0

 40  402  4  40 
26. Conceptual
27.

(  1)t
5

28.

20

uf (15)(10) 150
v    30cm
u f 15  10 5
 1.5

r
10 cm

30 cm

r 1.5

10 30

1
r cm
2
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
29. For first lens        v1  60cm
v u f v 20 30 60

For the second lens u  30cm, f  20cm

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
       
f v2 u V 20 30 v 60 60

10 mm
x
( -30, 0 ) ( 0, 0 ) (90, 0)

30 cm
90 cm

150 cm

 v2  60cm  m  2 So co-ordinates are ( 150 cm, -30 mm )

30. Conceptual