MYP-5 REFRACTION OF LIGHT

Q1 A diver in water looks obliquely at an object AB in air.

(i) Does the object appear taller, shorter or of the same size to the diver?
(ii) Show the path of two rays AC & AD starting from the tip of the object as it travels towards the diver in
water and hence obtain the image of the object.
2. The wave lengths for the light of red and blue colours are nearly 7.8 x 10-7 m and 4.8 x 10-7 m
respectively.
(i) Which colour has the greater speed in a vacuum?
(ii) Which colour has a greater speed in glass?
3. Complete the path of the ray AB through the glass prism in PQR till it emerges out of the prism. Given the
critical angle of the glass as 42°.

4. The diagram below shows a light source P embedded in a rectangular glass block ABCD of critical angle
42°. Complete the path of the ray PQ till it emerges out of the block. [Write necessary angles.]

5. State relation between the critical angle and the absolute refractive index of a medium
(ii) Which colour of light has higher critical angle? red light or green light
6. A ray of light XY passes through a right angled isosceles prism as shown below
(i) What is the angle through which the incident ray deviates and emerges out of the prism ?
(ii) Name the instrument where this action of prism is put into use. Periscope
(iii) Which Prism surface will behave as a mirror
7. How is the refractive index of a material related to
(i) Real and apparent depth
(ii) Velocity of light in vacuum or air and velocity of light in a given medium ?
8. State the two conditions of total internal reflections to occur.
9. The diagram below shows a point source P inside a water container. Four rays A, B, C, D starting from the
source P are shown upto the water surface

(i) Show in the diagram the path of these rays after shrinking the water surface. The critical angle for water
air surface is 48o
(ii) Name the phenomena which the ray B and D and exhibit.
10. A child is standing in front of a magic mirror. She finds the image of her head bigger, the middle portion
of her body of the same size and that of the legs smaller. The following is the order of combinations for the
magic mirror from the top.
(a) Plane, convex and concave
(b) Convex, concave and plane
(c) Concave, plane and convex
(d) Convex, plane and concave
11. Why do the faces of persons sitting around camp fire appear to shimmer?
12. No matter how far you stand from a mirror, your image appears erect. The mirror is likely to be
(a) plane
(b) concave
(c) convex
(d) either plane or convex.
13. Which of the following is correct?
1. λblue>λyellow>λgreen
2. λyellow> λ green> λ blue
3. λyellow> λblue>λgreen
4. λgreen> λblue >λyellow
14. A radiation X is focused by a proper device on the bulb of a thermometer due to which mercury in it
shows a rapid increase. The radiation X is:
1. Infrared radiation 2. Visible light 3. Ultraviolet radiation 4. X-rays
15. Rainbow is formed due to
1. Reflection and dispersion of light through the water droplets
2. Total internal reflection, refraction and dispersion of light through the water droplets
3. Only dispersion of light
 4. Only refraction of light
16. A concave mirror and convex lens are immersed in water. What change, if any, do you expect in the focal
length of the two? Justify.
17. In the following figures, one les is places inside each box. State the nature of the lens. Complete the ray
diagrams.

18. The ray diagrams given below show the paths of a ray of light travelling from a medium Minto different
media 1, 2 and 3.

(a) In which of three media 1, 2 or 3 does light travel: (i) faster, (ii) slower than in medium M?
(b) Arrange the media 1, 2 and 3 in descending order of (i) speed of light through them, (ii) their refractive
index.
19. A student recorded the following data for the values of object distance and corresponding image distance
while performing an experiment on real image formatio lens of power + 4 D. Two of these observations are
incorrect. Without making any calculations, identify these observations and give reason for your choice.

20. Playing with an old lens one morning, Ravi discovers that if he holds the lens 10 cm away from a wall
opposite to a window, he can see a sharp but upside-down picture of outside world on the wall. That evening,
he covers a lighted lamp with a piece of opaque paper on which he has pierced, a small hole 1 mm in diameter.
By placing the lens between the illuminated card and the wall, he manages to produce a sharp image of
diameter 5 mm on the wall.
(i) What is the power of the lens ?
(ii) In the evening experiment , how far away from the opaque paper did he place the lens ?
(iii) How far apart were the card and the wall ?

21. What is the relation between the refractive index of water with respect to air (aμw) and the refractive
index of air with respect to water (wμa).
(ii) If the refractive index of water with respect to air (aμw) is 5/3. Calculate the refractive index of air with
respect to water (wμa).

22. Draw diagram to show the refraction of a monochromatic ray through prism when it suffers minimum
deviation. Compare it with the refraction of same light through a rectangular glass slab using a ray diagram.