ASSIGNMENT-CHAPTER - 16

LIGHT

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I. What makes things visible?

1. How are things visible to us?
A. Light gets reflected from our eyes and makes the object visible.
B. Light emitted or reflected from the object makes the object visible.
C. Both A and B can occur according to the light condition
D. The reason is still not known.

2. Suppose you are in a dark room. Can you see objects in the room? Can you see objects
outside the room. Explain.
We can see an object only when light rays emitted or reflected from the object reaches our
eye. In a dark room, no light reaches our eye. Hence, no objects are visible. Outside the
room, all objects are visible because light reflected from their surfaces reaches our eyes.

3. We can see a non-luminous object when light:

(a) emitted by the object falls on the eye.
(b) is reflected from the object towards our eye.
(c) completely passes through the object.
(d) gets completely absorbed by the object.
4. A RED coloured object in GREEN light looks BLACK because it absorbs all the green
light. In BLUE light, how would a YELLOW object look?
A. Red
B. Magenta
C. White
D. Black

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5. The power has just gone off in Sarita’s house and she lights a candle. She decides to place
it in front of a mirror as shown, as she believes it will light up the room more. Is she
correct?

Yes as the mirror is reflecting light in all directions.

I LAWS OF REFLECTION

6. State the laws of reflection with the help of a ray diagram.

1.The incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface of the mirror, all lie in
the same plane.
2.The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence.

7. When light is reflected from a smooth surface, the angle of incidence must be equal to the
angle of reflection." Under which of the following situations is the above statement true?"
A. It is always true.
B. It is true only if the surface is CONCAVE or PLANE.
C. It is true only if the surface is made of GLASS.
D. It is true only if the surface is PLANE.

8. A small hole P is made in a piece of cardboard. The hole is illuminated by a torch as

shown in the figure. The pencil of light coming out of the hole falls on a mirror.
At which point should the eye be placed, so that the hole can be seen?

Point A

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9. A tiny mirror M is fixed on a piece of cardboard placed on a table. The cardboard is
illuminated by light from a bulb. The position of eye with respect to position of bulb is
shown in the figure as A, B, C and D. In which position mirror will be visible?

POSITION A
10. There is a mistake in, each of the following ray diagrams given as Fig. (a), (b), and (c).
Make the necessary correction(s).

11. A ray of light is incident on a mirror at an angle of 40°. Find the angle between the
incident and the reflected ray.
I=50 degree
R=50 degree
Angle between incident ray and reflected ray=100 degrees

12. 1. What is the angle of incidence of a ray if the reflected ray is at an angle of 90° to the
incident ray?
2. Two mirrors meet at right angles. A ray of light is incident on one at an angle of 30° as
shown in Fig. below. Draw the reflected ray from the second mirror.

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 13. Two mirrors A and B are placed at right angles to each other as shown in the figure.

A ray of light incident on mirror A at an angle of 25° falls on mirror B after reflection.
What is the angle of reflection for the ray reflected from mirror B?

65 degree

14. Two mirrors are placed perpendicular to each other. If a ray of light incident on one
mirror with an angle of incidence 45 degree. Draw the reflected ray from the second
mirror and find the angle of reflection from the second mirror.

III. IMAGE FORMATION IN A PLANE MIRROR

15. Image formed by a plane mirror is

(a) virtual, behind the mirror and enlarged.
(b) virtual, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object.
(c) real at the surface of the mirror and enlarged.
(d) real, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object.

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16. Which box(es) of the table would best represent an image formed by a plane mirror? Use
the table given below to answer the question.

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17. Look at the fig. Can the image of the child in it be obtained on a screen?

No, as the image formed by plane mirror is virtual.

18. The distance between the object and its image formed by a plane mirror appears to be 18
cm. What is the distance between mirror and the object?
9 cm

19. There are 11 letters in the word EXAMINATION. How many letters of this word are not
changed when the word is seen in a plane mirror?
A) 11
B) 5
C) 8
D) 9
20. Boojho stands at A just on the side of a plane mirror as shown in Fig. 16.20. Can he
see himself in the mirror? Also can he see the image of objects situated at P, Q and
R?

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 A cannot see his image because the length of the mirror is too short on his side. However,
he can see the objects placed at points P and Q, but cannot see the object placed at point
R.

21. (a) Find out the position of the image of an object situated at A in the plane mirror
(Fig. 16.21).

(b) Can Paheli at B see this image?

(c) Can Boojho at C see this image? (d) When Paheli moves from B to C, where does
the image of A move?

Image of the object placed at A is formed behind the mirror. The

distance of the image from the mirror is equal to the distance of A from
the mirror. Image of A is shown in the given figure.

(b) Yes. Paheli at B can see this image.

(c) Yes. Boojho at C can see this image.
(d) Image of the object at A will not move. It will remain at the same
position when Paheli moves from B to C.

22. An object is placed at a distance of 20cm from a plane mirror.

(a) Find the distance between the object and the image.

40 cm

(b) If the object is moved away from the mirror with a distance of 5cm. Find the distance

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 between the mirror and the image.

25cm

23. Figure shows the position of a girl and a flower in front of a plane mirror. What is the
distance between the girl and the image of the flowerpot?

The distance between the flower pot and the image of the girl is 7 meters
24. A transparent glass sheet in a frame, with 'MUG' written on it, is held upright in front of a
plane mirror.

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Which of the following correctly shows how the image will appear in the mirror?

OPTION B
25. An optician holds a test card 50 cm behind a patient. The patient then looks in the plane
mirror which is 100 cm away. How far away from the patient's eyes is the image of the
test card?

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 Object distance = 150 cm ∴Image distance = 150 cm (as in plane mirror, object distance is
always equal to the image distance) The patient is 100 cm away from the mirror. So, the
distance between the patient's eyes and the image =100cm+150cm=250cm

IV. TYPES OF REFLECTION

26. Light is falling on surfaces S1 S2 and S3 as shown in the figure.

Which of the above surface/surfaces obey laws of reflection?

All the surfaces .

27. Mention against each of the following whether regular or diffused reflection will take
place when a beam of light strikes. Justify your answer in each case. (a) Polished wooden
table
(b) Chalk powder
(c) Cardboard surface
(d) Marble floor with water spread over it
(e) Mirror
(f) Piece of paper
28. How many times is a ray of light reflected by two plane mirrors placed parallel and
facing each other?
Infinite
29. If two plane mirrors are inclined at an angle of 90∘ to each other, how many images of an
object are seen?
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Only 3
D) Any of 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on the position of observer and object.
30. Assertion (A): Multiple images are formed when two plane mirrors are placed at an angle
to each other.
Reason (R): The image formed by one mirror acts as the object for the second mirror.
i) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of the assertion.
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 ii)Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
iii) A is true but R is false.
iv) A is false but R is true
31. A Periscope is a device made by using two plane mirrors placed at particular angles
a) On which principle does it work?
Reflection of light
b) What is it used for?

32. Boojho planned an activity to observe an object ‘A’ through pipes as shown in the given
figure, so that he could see objects which he could not directly see.

(a) How many mirrors should he use to see the object?

(b) Indicate the positions of the mirrors in the figure.
(c) What must be the angle with respect to the incident light at which he should
place the mirrors?
(d) Indicate the direction of rays in the figure.
(e) If any of the mirrors is removed, will he be able to see the object?

a) Number of mirrors = 3

c) 45 degrees
(b) He will not be able to see the objects if any of the mirror is
removed, since he will not get the rays after removal of mirror.

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 33. How is the phenomenon of reflection used in making a kaleidoscope? What are the
applications of a kaleidoscope?

34. A beam of white light falling on a glass prism gets split up into seven colours marked 1 to
7 as shown in the diagram.

a. Identify the above phenomenon.

b. Identify the colours from 1-7

c. State the colour which bends (i) the least and (ii) the most while passing through
the glass prism.

V. WHAT IS INSIDE OUR EYES?

35.

a) Identify the labelled parts of the eye.

b. Write functions of 2 and 5.

c. Rahul, while waving his hand very fast in front of his eyes, observes that his fingers
appear blurred. What could be the reason

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36. Explain which process enables us to perceive motion in a cartoon film.

37. Eyes of the nocturnal birds have large cornea and a large pupil. How does this structure
help them?

38. What kind of lens is there in our eyes? Where does it form the image of an object?

39. Which part of the eye gets affected if someone is suffering from cataract? How is it
treated?

40. a. Write any three precautions you will take to care for eye to remain healthy.

b. How do visually impaired people read?

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