CHAPTER 4 :- REFRACTION OF LIGHT AT CURVED SURFACES

1 mark:-

Question 1.
What is a lens?

Question 2.
What is a double convex lens?

Question 3.
What is a double concave lens?

Question 4.
Define focal length of a lens.

Question 5.
When do you get a virtual and magnified image with a convex lens?

Question 6.
What is the position and nature of the image formed by a concave lens?

Question 7.
Write the lens formula.

Question 8.
What is the behaviour of convex lens when it is kept in another medium?

Question 9.
What is lens maker formula?

Question 10.
What is power of lens?

Question 11.
What are paraxial rays?

Question 12.
What is absolute refractive index?

Question 13.
Which mirror is similar to convex lens?

Question 14.
Which mirror is similar to concave lens?

Question 15.
Which lens will form both real and virtual images?

Question 16.
Give two uses of convex lens.

Question 17.
Which lens has a negative power?

Question 18.
Which lens has a positive power?

Question 19.
What type of lens behavior will an air bubble inside water show?

Question 20.
What is a double concave lens?

Question 21.
Write about the thickness of concave lens.

Question 22.
What is the mid-point of lens called?

Question 23.
What happens if the ray passes through principal axis?

Question 24.
What is the name given to line joining focal point, pole and centre of curvature?

Question 25.
What happens to a ray passing through pole?

Question 26.
Where do light rays traveling to principal axis converge?

Question 27.
What happens to light rays passing through focus?

Question 28.
Where should an object be placed in front of a convex lens to get a real image of the size of
object?

Question 29.
What are other names of convex lens?

Question 30.
What is the other name of concave lens?

Question 31.
When do you get image at infinity with a convex lens?

Question 32.
When do you get a virtual image with a convex lens?

Question 33.
The image formed by a lens is always erect and diminished. What is the nature of lens?

Question 34.
From which point of lens are all the distances measured?

Question 35.
Do only convex lens converge?
Question 36.
What happens to the image formed by a convex lens if its lower part is blackened?

Question 37.
Is it possible for a lens to act as a convergent lens in one medium and a divergent lens in
another?

Question 38.
Give mathematical expression for power of a lens and explain the terms in the formula.

Question 39.
Is focal length of a lens zero? If not, why?

Question 40.
If the size of image is same as object through a convex lens, then where is the object placed?

Question 41.
Ravi used a lens to burn a paper. What is that lens?

Question 42.
How will you identify a concave lens by touching it?

Question 43.
How will you identify a convex lens by touching it?

Question 44.
Give use of concave lens.
Question 45.
Give the sign conventions for lenses with regard to the object and image distance.

Question 46.
Give the sign conventions for lenses with regard to the height of objects and images.

Question 47.
What type of lens does a drop of water behave like?

Question 48.
A thin lens has a focal length of 12 cm. Is it a convex lens or a concave lens?

Question 49.
Does the lens formula change depending on the position of the object in front of the lens?

Question 50.
When light of two colours, A and B are passed through a plane boundary, A is bent more than B.
Which colour travels more slowly in the second medium?

Question 51.
What is a focal plane? (ASi)

Question 52.
On what factor does focal length of a lens depend?

Question 53.
Write the list of materials required for the experiment to find the focal length of a convex lens
2 mark:-

1.Find the focal length of plane convex lens if its radius of curvature is R and its refractive index
is n.
2.Focal length of the lens depends on its surrounding medium. What happens if we use a liquid
as surrounding media of refractive index equal to the refractive index of lens?
3.Write the sign conventions for refraction through lenses. 4.Using the formula of refraction at
curved surfaces, write the formula for plane surfaces.
5.Explain how a convex lens behaves as converging lens and diverging lens.
6.Write the differences between convex lens and concave lens.
7.Two convex lenses of same focal length are fixed in a PVC pipe at a distance double to their
focal length. What happens if a boy sees the moon with that arrangement?
8.The refractive index of convex lens materials is 1.46. The refractive index of Benzene and
water is 1.5 and 1.0 respectively. How does the lens behave when it is kept in Benzene and
water? Guess and write.
9.How will you explain twinkling of stars?
10.Complete the ray diagram given below.
11.A thin converging lens has a focal length ‘f’ in air. If it is completely immersed in a liquid,
briefly explain how the focal length of the lens will vary? (ASI)
12.What changes in the focal length of a convex lens occur when the incident violet light on
them is replaced by red light?
4 mark:-
1.Using a biconvex lens, a point image is made on its principal axis S. Let us assume that we
know optical centre P and its focus F. We also know PF > PS. Draw the ray diagram to identify
the point source and give reasons.
2.Radii of biconvex lens are equal. Let us keep an object at one of the centres of curvature.
Refractive index of lens is ‘n’. Assume lens in the air. Let us take R as the radius of the
curvature.
(a) How much is the focal length of the lens?
(b) What is the image distance?
© Discuss the nature of the image.
 3.Draw ray diagrams for a double concave lens of focal length 4 cm, when objects are placed at
3 cm and 5 cm on principal axis. Write characteristics of image
4.Describe the image formation by a convex lens for various positions of the object.
5.Write the nature, position and relative size of the image formed by a convex lens for various
positions of the object.
6.A student performed an experiment with biconvex lens and formulated a table as shown.
(a) What is your idea regarding different values of focal length?
(b) How will you decide the focal length of lens? What is that value?
© Can you measure the image distance by keeping object distance as 10 cm? Why?
7.Draw diagrams of different lenses.
8.Explain the behaviour of certain light rays when they are incident on a lens, with neat ray
diagrams.