PHYSICS

1.

A convex lens of focal length 10 cm is cut into two parts across the principle axis and
the two parts are moved perpendicular to the principle axis by 1 mm. Now a point
source is placed at a distance of 20 cm on the original principle axis of the lens. Now
a screen is placed perpendicular to the principle axis. If the wavelength of the source
0

is

4000 A

(a)
(c)
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2.

. The angular fringe width of the interference fringes is

4 10 4 radian

(b)

1 104 radian

2 10 4 radian

(d) interference pattern will not be formed

(c)
In the diagram shown a glass plate of thickness
1103 mm

5 103 mm

of thickness
. Find the maximum value of
interfere constructively.

(a)

30 103 mm

(b)

60 103 mm

(c)

is coated with a thin film

for which the reflected rays

15 103 mm

(d)

45 103 mm

Key.

(a)

3.

A concave mirror of radius of curvature 40 cm is filled with water (n = 4/3) upto a

height of 12 cm. A point object O is kept on the axis of the mirror at height 13.5 cm
from the water surface. The final image formed after refraction at water surface,
reflection of mirror and again refraction at water surface in succession is situated at

(a) 36 cm above the water surface

(b) 24 cm above the water surface
(c) 20 cm above the water surface
(d) 12 cm above the water surface
Key.

(a)

4.

A luminous pointy object at O, whose image is formed at I as shown in figure. Line

AB is the optical axis. Which of the following statement is correct?

(a) if a lens is used to obtain the image, then it must be a converging lens and its
optical centre will be the intersection point of line AB and OI
(b) If a lens is used to obtain the image, then it must be a diverging lens and its optical
centre will be the intersection point of AB and OI
(c) If a mirror is used to obtain the image then the mirror must be concave and object
image subtend equal angles at the pole of the mirror
(d) I is a real image
Key.

(d)

5.

Two prisms of identical geometrical shape are combined with their refracting angles
oppositely directed. The materials of the prism have refractive indices 1.52 and 1.62
for violet light. A violet ray is deviated by 1.00 when passes symmetrically through
this combination. What is the angle of the prisms?
(a) 50

(b) 100

(c) 7.50

(d) 120

Key.

(b)

6.

A concave mirror formed a real image of an object on a screen with a magnification 2.

The object and the screen are then displaced along the axis such that the magnification
become 3. If the displacement of the screen is 25 cm, the displacement of the object is
(a) 12 cm

(b) 25/3 cm

(c) 50 cm

(d) 25 /6 cm

Key.

(d)

7.

An object O is placed in front of a small plane mirror M 1 and a large convex mirror
M2 of focal length f. The distance between O and M 1 is x, and the distance between
M1 and M2 is y. The images of O formed by M1 and M2 coincide. The magnitude of
f is.

x2 y2
2y

(a)

x2 y2
2y

(b)

x2 y2
xy

(c) x y

(d)

Ans.

(a)

8.

A water tank has a square cross section of side L cm. V(cm) 3 of water is being
drained out per second. What is the rate of change (decrease) of the apparent depth of
the water tank? (refractive index of air is n1, refractive index of water is n2)
n2 V
n1 L2

(a)

cm/s

(b) (n1 + n2)

n1 V
n2 L2

(c)

L2

cm/s

cm/s

(d) (n1 n2)

L2

cm/s

Ans.

(c)

9.

In the mid-19th century, French physicist Leon Foucault made the most accurate
measurement to-date of the speed of light using a laboratory-sized apparatus
consisting of rotating and fixed mirrors. Consider a source of light emitting a beam
which bounces of a rotating mirror and then reflects off a small fixed mirror. By the
time it reaches back to the rotating mirror, the mirror has rotated by a small angle.
This rotation will deflect the beam through a small angle from its original path. (D
is distance between rotating mirror and fixed mirror).

If the mirror rotates with a frequency f and the deflection of the beam is given by ,
the speed of light is given by

(a)

8fD

(b)

4fD

(c)

2fD

(d) None of these

Ans.

(a)

10.

Two coherent radio point sources separated by 4.0m are placed at points A and B
along a straight line as shown. Both are emitting waves in phase of 1.0 m wave
length. A detector moves in a circular path around the two sources in a plane
containing them.

Point A and B lie on the diameter of the circle and they are at equidistant from the
center of the circle O as shown. Find the number of maxima counted by the detector
in one full circle.
a) 9

b) 10

c) 15

d) 16

key. (d)

11.

f
A particle is dropped along the axis from a height 2 on a concave mirror of focal f
length f as shown in the figure. The acceleration due to gravity is g. Find the
maximum speed of image.

a)

gf

3
3fg
b) 4

c)

2gf

1
2gf
d) 4

key.

(b)

12.

A double convex lens forms a real image of an object on a screen which is fixed. Now
the lens is given a constant velocity 1 m/s along its axis and away from the screen. For
the purpose of forming a sharp image always on the screen, the object is also required
to be given an appropriate velocity. The velocity of the object at the instant the size of
the image is half the size of the object.
a) 1 m/s

b) 2 m/s

c) 3 m/s

d) 4 m

key.

(c)

13.

A convex lens of focal length 15 cm is split into two halves and the two halves are
placed at a separation of 120 cm. Between the two halves of convex lens a plane
mirror is placed horizontally and at a distance of 4 mm below the principal axis of the
lens halves. An object AB of length 2 mm is placed at a distance of 20 cm from one
half lens as shown in figure.
f= 1 5 c m

f= 1 5 c m

B
2 m m
A

20 cm

4 m m
120 cm

The final image of the point A is formed at a distance of

axis. Determine the value of n.
a) 2

b) 4

c) 8

n
mm
3

from the principle

d) 9

key.

(a)

14.

A cylindrical glass tube is folded in a circle as shown in figure. The maximum value
of d/R so that the beam of light incident normally at the face A emerges through face

1.5
B
d
A

(a) 0.5
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(b) 0.41

(c) 2

(a)

15.

(d) 1.41

1.5

A thin converge glass lens

has a power of +5.0D. When this lens is
immersed in a liquid of refractive index, it acts as a diverging lens of focal length

100cm. The value of

is

(a) 4/3

(b) 5/3

(c) 5/4

(d) 6/3

Key.

(b)

16.

An object is kept at a distance of 16 cm from a thin lens and the image formed is real.
If the object is kept at a distance of 6 cm from the same lens the image formed is
virtual. If the size of the images formed are equal, the focal length of the lens will be
96

(a) 8 cm

(b) 5 cm

(c) 11 cm

(d)

cm

Key.

(c)

17.

A paraxial beam of light having diameter 4 mm is incident on a convex lens having

focal length 30 cm. A screen is placed normal to the beam at a distance of 30cm on
the other side. Diameter of the image formed on the screen is(a) 6 mm

(b) 4 mm

(c) 3 mm

(d) 2 mm

Key.

(d)

18.

White light (wavelength 4000-7000 ) is incident normally on a glass plate of

thickness one micron and refractive index 1.5. Number of strongly reflected
wavelengths by the plate is-

(a) 1

(b) 5

(c) 3

(d ) 4

Key.

(c)

19.

A tank filled with water ( = 4/3) is illuminated by light coming from sun. Find the
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length of the image of a vertical erect stick of length

m at the bottom of the tank
as observed by a fish when the sun makes an angle 30 with the vertical. Assume that
the whole length of the stick is well below the water surface
(a) 3m

(b) 4m

(c) 5m

(d) 3.5m

Key.

(a)

20.

Light falls on an end of a cylindrical glass rod at an angle, the smallest refractive
index that the glass may have so that the light after entering the rod cannot leave it
through a lateral face irrespective of the values of is
(a) 3

Key.
21.

(b) 2

(c) 2/3

(d) 2 +

(b)
As shown in the figure, a particle at M vibrates simple harmonically about M
perpendicular to axis with amplitude 0.1cm. The amplitude of vibration of image is

f = 10cm
M
15 cm

(a) 0.4 cm

(b) 0.1 cm

(c) 0.2 cm

(d) 0.3 cm

Key.

(c)

22.

An object of height 0.5 cm is placed laterally in the medium of refractive index n 1 =

1.5 at a distance 100 cm away form the pole. The radius of curvature of the surface is
20 cm. The height of the image formed after refraction is

n1 = 1.5

n2 = 1.6

0.5cm
P

(a) 0.75 cm

(b) 1 cm

(c) 0.25 cm

(d) 1.5 cm

Key.

(a)

23.

A ray incident at a point at an angle of incidence of 60 0 enters a glass sphere of

refractive index = 3 and is reflected and refracted at the farther surface of the
sphere. The angle between the reflected and refracted rays at this surface is
(a) 500
(b) 900
(c) 600
(d) 400

Key.

(b)

24.

Line MN shows a straight road parallel to mirror AB of length d. A point object O is

shown away from road at distance d. The length of the road over which image of O
can be seen through the mirror is
N

B
O

d
d

(a) 2d

(b) 3d

(c) 3d/2

(d) 4d

Key.

(c)

25.

A medium of variable refractive index of width 1m, whose refractive index varies as

1 y
is placed in air. A ray of light enters the medium from air at an angle of
60 with the normal as shown. Find the angle that ray makes with normal before
coming out of variable refractive index medium.
air

B 1m

A
y

= (1+y)
O

60

sin 1

(a)

tan 1

(b)

cos 1

(c)

(d) none of these

Key.

(a)

26.

An object is placed in front of a thin convex lens of focal length 30 cm and a plane
mirror is placed 15 cm behind the lens. If the final image of the object coincides with
the object, the distance of the object from the lens is
(a) 60 cm

(b) 30 cm

(c) 15 cm

(d) 25 cm

Key.

(b)

27.

The focal length of the objective and the eye-piece of a microscope are 2 cm and 5 cm
respectively and the distance between them is 30 cm. If the image seen by the eye is
at 25 cm from the eye-piece, the distance of the object from the objective is
(a) 0.8 cm

(b) 1.2 cm

(c) 0.4 cm

(d) 2.2 cm

Key.
28.

To prevent the reflection from a camera lens, a thin film of magnesium fluoride is
provided. In order that the light of wavelength 5000 A not be reflected, the minimum
thickness of the film should be ( for magnesium fluoride is 1.25 and g=1.5).

(a) 210-7m

(b) 10-7m

(c) 2 10-6m

(d) 210-8m

Key.

(b)

29.

In Youngs double slit experiment, 62 fringes are seen in visible region for sodium
light of wavelength 5893 . If violet light of wavelength 4358 is used in place of
sodium light, then number of fringes seen will be approximately
(a) 54

(b) 64

(c) 74

(d) 84

Key.

(d)

30.

In Youngs experiment, one slit is covered with a blue filter and the other (slit) with a
yellow filter. Then the interference pattern

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(a) Will be blue

(b) Will be yellow

(c) Will be green

(d) Will not be formed

(d)