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NTSE Question Bank

REFLECTION AND REFRACTION

1. An incident ray strike a plane mirror at an angle of 150 with the mirror. The angle between the
incident ray and reflected ray is
(A) 150 (B) 300
(C) 1500 (D) none of these
2. In case of a virtual and erect image, the magnification of a mirror is
(A) positive (B) negative
(C) unity (D) infinity
3. A virtual, erect and magnified image of an object is to be produced with a concave mirror of focal
length 12 cm. Which of the following object distance should be chosen for this purpose?
(A) 10 cm (B) 14 cm
(C) 18 cm (D) 24 cm
4. The mirror used in automobiles to see the rear field of view is
(A) concave (B) convex
(C) plane (D) none of these
5. The relation between u,v, and f for a mirror is
uv 2u  v
(A) f  (B) f 
u v uv
uv
(C) f  (D) none of these
uv
6. Which is the wrong statement out of the following
(A) A concave mirror can give a virtual image.
(B) A convex mirror can give a virtual image.
(C) A concave mirror can give a diminished virtual image.
(D) A convex mirror cannot give a real image.
7. When an object is placed between the focus and the pole of a concave mirror, the image formed is
(A) real, inverted and small
(B) real, inverted and same size
(C) real, inverted and enlarged
(D) virtual, erect and enlarged

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8. The mirror used by dentists to concentrate light on the tooth to be examined is..........mirror
(A) concave (B) plane or concave
(C) convex (D) plane
9. When an object is kept within the focus of a concave mirror, an enlarged image is formed behind
the mirror. The nature of the image is
(A) real (B) inverted
(C) virtual and inverted (D) virtual and erect.
10. A light year is the unit of
(A) time (B) distance
(C) intensity of light (D) none of these
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11. Refer to the mirror formula,   , where the symbols have their usual meanings.
v u f
Which of the following graphs correctly depicts this variation?
(A) (B)

(C) (D) none of these

12. Which of the following correctly depicts the graphical variation in case of a convex mirror?
(A) (B)

(C) (D)

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13. The linear magnification for a mirror is the ratio of the size of the image of the object, and is
denoted by m. Then m is equal to (symbols have their usual meanings)
uf uf
(A) (B)
u f u f
uf
(C) (D) none of these
u f
14. An object is placed in front of a convex mirror at a distance of 50 cm. A plane mirror is introduced
covering the lower half of the convex mirror. If the distance between the object and the plane
mirror is 30 cm, it is found that there is no parallax between the image formed by the two mirrors.
What is the radius of curvature of the convex mirror?
(A) 25 cm (B) 7 cm
(C) 18 cm (D) 27 cm
15. The distance between a real object and its image in a convex mirror of focal length 12 cm is 32 cm
find the size of image if the object size is 1 cm.
(A) 2/3 cm (B) 1/3 cm
(C) 1 cm (D) ¼ cm
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16. During the 19 century, light was considered to be a stream of particles called
(A) atoms (B) electrons
(C) corpuscles (D) quantas
17. Albert Einstein used corpuscular theory to explain
(A) E=mc2 (B) photoelectric effect
(C) quantisation of charge (D) none of these
18. The middle vascular coat that darkens the eye chamber and prevents refraction by absorbing the
light rays is
(A) choroid (B) sclera
(C) retina (D) cornea
19. A green leaf placed in a dark room is illuminated by red light. The leaf will appear to be
(A) green (B) red
(C) yellow (D) black
20. The distance v of the real image formed by a convex lens is measured for various object distances
u. A graph is plotted between 1/v and 1/u. Which of the graphs in figure is approximately correct?
(A)

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(B)
(C)

(D)
21. How will the image formed by a convex lens be affected if the central portion of the lens is
wrapped in black paper?
(A) no image is formed by the remaining portion of the lens
(B) the central portion of the image will be absent
(C) there will be no effect
(D) the full image will be formed but it will be less bright.
22. The astronomical telescope was invented by
(A) Kepler (B) Galileo
(C) Newton (D) none of these
23. Which of the following pairs of colours is different from the others?
(A) green+magenta (B) blue+yellow
(C) red+cyan (D) blue+red
24. Light of wavelength 500 nm travelling with a speed of 2.0×108 ms-1 in a certain medium enters
another medium of refractive index 5/4 times that of the first medium. What are the wavelength
and speed in the second medium?
Wavelength (nm) speed (ms-1)
(A) 400 1.6×108
(B) 400 2.5×108
(C) 500 2.5×108
(D) 625 1.6×108

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25. One of the refracting surfaces of a prism of angle 300 is silvered. A ray of light incident at angle
of 600 retraces its path. The refractive index of the material of prism is
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 3/2 (D) 2
26. An object 15 cm high is placed 10 cm from the optical centre of a thin lens. Its image is formed
25 cm from the optical centre on the same side of the lens as the object. The height of the image is
(A) 2.5 cm (B) 0.2 cm
(C) 16.7 cm (D) 37.5 cm
27. A convex lens forms an images of an object placed 20 cm away from it at a distance of 20 cm on
the other side of the lens. If the object is moved 5 cm toward the lens, the image will be
(A) 5 cm towards the lens (B) 5 cm away from the lens
(C) 10 cm towards the lens (D) 10 cm away from the lens
28. ACB is right angled prism with other angles as 600 and 300. Refractive index of the prism is 1.5
AB has thin layer of liquid on it as shown. Light falls normally on the face AC. For total internal
reflections, maximum refractive index of the liquid is

(A) 1.4 (B) 1.3

(C) 1.2 (D) 1.6
29. A glass prism has refractive index 2 and refracting angle 300. One of the refracting surface of
the prism is silvered. A beam of monochromatic light will retrace it path if its angle of incidence
on the unsilvered refracting surface of the prism is
(A) 0 (B)  / 6
(C)  / 4 (D)  / 3
30. Two point sources S1 and S2 and 24 cm apart. Where should a convex lens of focal length 9 cm be
placed in between them so that the images of both sources are formed at the same place?
(A) 6 cm from S1 (B) 16 cm from S1
(C) 10 cm from S1 (D) 12 cm from S1

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