PHYSICS

1. A 1.2 cm long pin is placed perpendicular to the principal axis of a convex mirror of focal length 12
cm , at a distance of 8 cm from it.
(a) Find the location of the image.
(b) Find the height of the image.
(c) Is the image erect or inverted?
2. The image of an object placed 16 cm from a concave mirror is formed at a distance of 24 cm from the
mirror. Calculate the possible focal lengths of the concave mirror from this information.
3. Where an object should be placed before a concave mirror of focal length 20 cm so that a real image
is formed at a distance of 60 cm from it?
4. If the height of the object in the previous problem is 1.2 cm , what will be the height of the image?
5. When a concave mirror is placed facing the sun, the sun's rays converge to a point 10 cm from the
mirror. Now, an erect, 2 cm long pin is placed 15 cm away on the principal axis of the mirror. If you
want to get the image of the pin on a card, where would you place the card? What would be the
nature and height of the image?
6. The far point of a person suffering from myopia is 2 meters from the eye. Find the focal length and
power of the corrective lens that will correct his vision.
7. Two resistances when connected in parallel give resultant value of 2ohm . When they are connected
in series, the value becomes 9 ohms. Calculate the value of each resistance.
8. Two resistances are connected in series as shown in the fig.

(i) What is the current through the 5 ohm resistance?

(ii) What is the current through R?
(iii) What is the value of R ?
(iv) What is the value of V ?
9. In the circuit diagram given here, find:

(i) Total resistance of the circuit,

(ii) Total current flowing in the circuit, and
(iii) The potential difference across 7.2 resistance.
10. Three resistors are connected as shown in the diagram. Through the resistor 5ohm , a current of 1
ampere is flowing.
 (i) What is the current through other two resistors?
(ii) What is the p.d. across A B and across AC ?
(iii) What is the total resistance?
11. For the circuit shown in the following diagram, find the value of:

(i) Current through 6 resistor.

(ii) Potential difference across 12 resistor.
12. How will you connect three resistors of 2,3 and 5 respectively so as to obtain a resultant
resistance of 2.5 ? Draw the diagram to show the arrangement.
13. In the circuit diagram given in figure, calculate:

(i) The current through each resistor,

(ii) The total current in the circuit, and
(iii) The total circuit resistance.
14. In the circuit shown in figure, calculate

(i) The current flowing through the arms A B, A C and C D E

(ii) The potential difference across AB, CD and DE .
15. A circuit is set up as shown in figure. Calculate the current through and the potential difference across
R1,R2 and R3 , when:
 (i) Keys K1 and K 2 both are closed.

(ii) Key K1 is closed and K 2 is opened.

(iii) Key K1 is opened and K 2 is closed.

16. When N identical electric bulbs, each rated as 11W,220 V are connected in parallel across a 220 V
supply line, the total current drawn is 5 A . What is the value of N ?
17. A wire of resistance 20ohm is bent in the form of a closed circle. What is the effective resistance
between the two points at the ends of any diameter of the circle?
18. A student has focused the image of a candle flame on a white screen using a concave mirror.
The situation is as given below:
Length of the flame = 1.5 cm
Focal length of the mirror = 12 cm
Distance of flame from the mirror = 18 cm
If the flame is perpendicular to the principal axis of the mirror, then calculate the following:
(i) Distance of the image from the mirror.
(ii) Length of the image
If the distance between the mirror and the flame is reduced to 10 cm , then what would be observed
on the screen? Draw ray diagram to justify your answer for this situation.
19. Light enters from air into glass plate which has refractive index 1.5. Calculate the speed of light in
glass (velocity of light in air is 3  108 m / s ).
20. The refractive indices of glass and water with respect to air are 3 / 2 and 4 / 3 respectively. If speed
of light in glass is 2  108 m / s , find the speed of light in water.
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21. Define absolute refractive index of a medium. fight enters from air to water having refractive index .
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Find the absolute refractive index of a medium if the speed of light in vacuum is 3  108 m / s .
22. The image of an object formed by a lens is of magnification -1 . If the distance between the object and
its image is 60 m , what is the focal length of the lens? If the object is moved 20 cm towards the lens,
where would the image be formed? State reason and also draw a ray diagram in support of your
answer.
23. For the same angle of incidence in media P, Q and R , the angles of refraction are 45 ,35 and 15
respectively. In which medium will the velocity of light be minimum? Give reason for your answer.
24. An object of height 5 cm is placed perpendicular to the principal axis of a concave dens of length
10 cm . If the distance of the object from the optical centre of the lens is 20 cm , determine the
position, nature and size of the image formed using the lens formula.
25. (i) Define power of a lens. Write its SI units.
(ii) You are provided with two convex lenses of focal length 15 cm and 25 cm , respectively. Which
of the two is of larger power? Give reason for your answer.
 (iii) A 20 cm tall object is placed perpendicular to the principal axis of a convex lens of focal length
10 cm . The distance of the object from the lens is 15 cm . Find the nature, position and size of
the image. Also find its magnification.
26. (i) An object is placed at a distance of 60 cm from a convex mirror where the magnification
produced is 1/ 2 . Where should the object be placed to get a magnification of 1/ 3 ?
(ii) A small electric lamp is placed at the focus of a convex lens. State the nature of beam of light
produced by the lens. Draw a diagram to show this.
27. What is Maxwell's right hand thumb rule? What is its use.
28. What is solenoid. Draw the pattern of magnetic field due to a solenoid and write its properties.
29. Differentiate between bar magnet and an electromagnet.
30. The magnetic field associated with a current - carrying straight conductor is in anti clock wise direction
if the conductor was held along the east west direction, what will be the direction of current through it.
Name and state the rule applied to determine the direction of current.
31. Explain why two magnetic field lines do not intersect each other.
32. What is an electromagnet? State three factors for which strength of an electromagnet depends.
An electric current can be used for making temporary magnets known as electromagnets.
An electromagnetic consists of long coil of insulted copper wire around on a soft iron core. The core of
an electromagnet must be of soft iron because soft ion looses all of its magnetism when current in the
coil is switch off.
The following factors affecting the strength of an electromagnet.
i) The number of turn the coil.
ii) The current flowing in the coil.
iii) The length of air gap between its pole.