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Identify the wrong figure from the following.
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| Column I | Column II | Column III | |
| 1 | Dispersion | Long-sightedness | Twinkling of stars |
| 2 | Refraction | Splitting of white light into component colours | Convex lens |
| 3 | Hypermetropia | Change in the direction of the ray of light due to change in medium | Spectrum of seven colours |
Name the phenomenon responsible for the following effect:
When we sit in front of a plane mirror and write with our right hand, it appears in the mirror that we are writing with the left hand.
Which property of light makes a pencil cast a shadow when it is held in front of a light source?
Fill in the following blank with a suitable word:
When light is reflected, the angles of incidence and reflection are ............ .
A ray of light strikes a plane mirror such that its angle of incidence is 30°. What angle does the reflected ray make with the mirror surface?
The boy walks towards the mirror at a speed of 1 m/s. At what speed does his image approach him?
State the uses of plane mirrors.
What is meant by 'reflection of light'?
Explain how to read the following message which was found on some blotting paper:
If a ray of light goes form a denser medium to a rarer medium, will it bend towards the normal or away from the normal?
A ray of light travelling in glass emerges into air. State whether it will bend towards the normal or away from the normal.
A ray of light passes from air into a block of glass. Does it bend towards the normal or away from it?
In which material do you think light rays travel faster-glass or air?
Which phenomenon of light makes the water to appear shallower than it really is?
- With the help of a diagram, show how when light falls obliquely on the side of a rectangular glass slab, the emergent ray is parallel to the incident ray.
- Show the lateral displacement of the ray on the diagram.
Explain with the help of a labelled ray diagram, why a pencil partly immersed in water appears to be bent at the water surface. State whether the bending of pencil will increase or decrease if water is replaced by another liquid which is optically more dense than water. Give reason for your answer.
How does the light have to enter the glass:
to produce a large amount of bending?
Light travels at a lower speed in water than in air.
When a ray of light travels from water to air, it bends ............. the normal.
Match the Following
| Column A | Column B |
| (a) white Light | (1) Convex mirror |
| (b) Refraction | (2) Concave mirror |
| (c) Virtual images | (3) refraction |
| (d) Real images | (4) spectrum |
| (e) Prism | (5) ray of light from glass to air |
Choose and write the correct option.
If we gradually increase the angle of incidence of a ray of light passing through prism then …..
Define the principal focus of a concave mirror.
Light enters from air to glass having refractive index 1.50. What is the speed of light in the glass? The speed of light in vacuum is 3 × 108 m s−1.
What is atmospheric reflection? Explain with the help of a labelled diagram that the position of a star as seen by us is not its true position.
The phenomenon of change in the direction of light when it passes from one transparent medium to another is called ___________.
Explain how the formation of a rainbow occurs.
Lights of different colours are used as signal for safety transport. From these, the wavelength of red light is _______ nm.
Explain with diagrams how refraction of incident light takes place from
- rarer to denser medium
- denser to rarer medium
- normal to the surface separating the two media.
The deviation of light ray from its path when it travels from one transparent medium to another transparent medium is called ______.
In the above diagram light is travelling through different media. It is noted by a scientist that ∠1= ∠3 = ∠4 but ∠2 < ∠1. Which of the following statement would be correct?
How does the light travel?
Light travels fastest in a vacuum. Why?
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another is called ______.
Assertion: The air bubble shines in water.
Reason: Air bubble shines due to the refraction of light.
Which is optically denser out of the two medium M1& M2 having the refractive indices = 1.71 and 1.36 respectively?
Why a pencil partly immersed in water appears to be bent at the water surface.
The bottom of swimming pool appears to be less deep than the actual one because of
