Geometrical Optics — JEE Advanced PYQs

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  1. A biconvex lens of focal length 15 cm is in front of a plane mirror. The distance between the lens and the mirror is 10 cm. A small object is kept at a distance of 30 cm from the lens. The final image is
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  2. Image of an object approaching a convex mirror of radius of curvature 20 m along its optical axis is observed to move from to in 30 seconds. What is the speed of the object in km per hour ?
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  3. A large glass slab of thickness 8 cm is placed over a point source of light on a plane surface. It is seen that light emerges out of the top surface of the slab from a circular area of radius . What is the value of ?
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  4. Two transparent media of refractive indices and have a solid lens shaped transparent material of refractive index between them as shown in figures in Column II. A ray traversing these media is also shown in the figures. In Column I different relation …
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  5. A ball is dropped from a height of 20 m above the surface of water in a lake. The refractive index of water is 4/3. A fish inside the lake, in the line of fall of the ball, is looking at the ball. At an instant, when the ball is 12.8 m above the water surface, the fish sees the s …
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  6. A student performed the experiment of determination of focal length of a concave mirror by u-v method using an optical bench of length 1.5 meter. The focal length of the mirror used is 24 cm . The maximum error in the location of the image can be 0.2 cm. The 5 sets of (u, v) valu …
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  7. Two beams of red and violet colours are made to pass separately through a prism (angle of the prism is ). In the position of minimum deviation, the angle of refraction will be
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  8. A light beam is traveling from Region I to Region IV (Refer Figure). The refractive index in Regions I, II, III and IV are , , and , respectively. The angle of incidence for which the beam just misses entering Re …
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  9. In an experiment to determine the focal length of a concave mirror by the method, a student places the object pin A on the principal axis at a distance from the pole P. The student looks at the pin and its inverted image from a distance keeping his/her eye i …
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  10. A ray of light traveling in water is incident on its surface open to air. The angle of incidence is , which is less than the critical angle. Then there will be
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  11. STATEMENT-1
    The formula connecting and for a spherical mirror is valid only for mirrors whose sizes are very small compared to their radii of curvature.
    because
    STATEMENT-2
    Laws of reflection are strictly valid for plane surfaces, but not for large spherical surfac …
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  12. A biconvex lens of focal length f forms a circular image of sun of radius r in focal plane. Then
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  13. Graph of position of image vs position of point object from a convex lens is shown. Then, focal length of the lens is
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  14. A simple telescope used to view distant objects has eyepiece and objective lens of focal lengths and , respectively. Then
    Column IColumn II
    (A) Intensity of light received by lens(P) Radius of aperture (R)
    | (B) Angular magnificatio …
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