MISSION 60 DAY

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CRASH COURSE BOSS

(BEST ONLINE STUDY SYSTEM)
FOR NEET 2020 A Venture of Helios Educore

Optical Instrument and Silvering of Lens

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1. A small object is placed at the bottom of a beaker containing a liquid of refractive index to a
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depth of 20 cm. A pin is placed horizontally over the beaker and adjusted until there is no parallax
between the image of the pin formed by reflection at the liquid surface and the image of the object.
The height of the pin above the liquid surface is :
(a) 20 cm (b) 15 cm (c) 10 cm (d) 30 cm
2. A convex lens of focal length 40 cm is held coaxially above a concave mirror of focal length 18 cm.
A luminous point object placed d cm above the lens on its axis gives rise to final image coincident
with itself. Then d is equal to :
O

d cm
f = 40 cm

12 cm

f = 18 cm

(a) 15 (b) 18 (c) 24 (d) 30

3. The power of a lens having refractive index 1.25 is +3 diopters. When placed in a liquid its power is
–2 diopters. The refractive index of the liquid is :
(a) 1.2 (b) 1.4 (c) 1.5 (d) 1.6
4. A ray of light is incident on a right angle prism of refractive index 3 as shown in the figure. The
ray of light is reflected and refracted at the surface AC of the prism. The angle between the reflected
and refracted rays at the surface is :
A

30°

60°
B C
(a) 90° (b) 120° (c) 150° (d) 45°
5. The diagram shows a concavo-convex lens. What is the condition on the refractive indices so that
the lens is diverging?

µ1 µ3

2R R

The refractive index

of the lens is µ2

(a) 2µ3 < µ1 + µ 2 (b) 2µ3 > µ1 + µ 2

(c) µ3 > 2(µ1 − µ 2 ) (d) none of these
6. A convex lens of focal length 20 cm and another plano-convex lens of focal length 40 cm are placed
co-axially (see figure). The plano-convex lens is silvered on plane surface. What should be the
distance d (in cm) so that final image of the object ‘O’ is formed on O itself :

10 cm
f = +20 cm

(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 25

7. A plane mirror is placed in y-x plane facing towards negative x-axis. The mirror is moving parallel to
y-axis with a speed of 2 cm/s. A point object P is moving infront of the mirror with a velocity

(1cm/s)i + (1cm/s) j . Then which of the following statement is incorrect?

(a) The velocity of image is (−i + j ) cm/s

(b) The velocity of image with respect to mirror is −(i + j ) cm/s

(c) The velocity of image with respect to object is (−2i ) cm/s

(d) The unit vector in the direction of reflected ray is (i + j )

8. A plane mirror approaches a stationary person with some acceleration ‘a’. The acceleration of his
image, as seen by the person, will be :

(a) a (b) 2a (c) a/2 (d) none of these

9. A convex mirror has a radius of curvature of 20 cm. An object is placed at such a distance from the
mirror that the size of the imaze is exactly half that of the object. The object distance must be :

(a) 20 cm (b) 30 cm (c) 10 cm (d) 40 cm

10. A beam of convergent light converges to a point 0.5 m in front of the mirror after reflection at a
convex mirror but in the absence of the mirror the beam converges to a point 0.2 m behind the
mirror. The radius of curvature of the mirror is :

0.5 m

P
O

0.2 m

(a) 20 cm (b) 50 cm (c) 66.67 cm (d) 28.57 cm

11. The object is at distance 45 cm from the screen. With lens we obtain a small image of the object on
the screen. By moving the lens, we receive a different image on the screen, whose size is 4 time
greater than the first. What is the focal length (in cm) of the lens?

(a) 5 (b) 15 (c) 10 (d) 12.5

12. A fish, F in the pond, is at a depth of 0.8 cm from water surface and is moving vertically upwards
with velocity 2 ms–1. At the same instant, a bird B is at a height of 6 m from water surface and is
moving downwards with velocity 3 ms–1. At this instant both are on the same vertical lines as shown
in the figure. Which of the following statement(s) is(are) correct?

B
6m 3 ms−1
Air
Water
0.8 m 2 ms−1 (µ = 4/3)
F

(a) Height of B, observed by F (from itself) is equal to 8.00 m

(b) Depth of F, observed by B (from itself) is equal to 6.60 m

(c) Velocity of B, observed by F (relative to itself) is equal to 5.00 ms–1

(d) Velocity of F, observed by B (relative to itself) if equal to 4.50 ms–1

13. In column-I possible instantaneous velocity vector of the image with respect to ground are shown.
These are corresponding to the situations shown in column-II. Match column-I with the situations
shown in column-II.
Column-I Column-II
v1
v2
(a) (p)
C F

O
v1

(b) (q) F

F
(c) (r)
O v

O
v

(d) (s)

v2
v1 O
(t)

14. A bird in air is diving vertically over a tank with speed 6 cm/s. Base of tank is
silvered. A fish in the tank is rising upward along the same line with speed 4
cm/s. Water level is falling at rate of 2 cm/s.
(take : µ water = 4/3)

Column-I Column-II
(a) Speed of the image of fish as seen by the bird (p) 12
directly
(b) Speed of the image of fish formed after (q) 4
reflection from the mirror as seen by the bird
(c) Speed of image of bird relative to the fish (r) 9
looking upwards
(d) Speed of image of bird relative to the fish (s) 3
looking downward in the mirror
15. A myopic person has been using spectacles of power –1.0 dioptre for distant vision. During old age
he also needs to use a separate reading glass of power + 2.0 dioptres. Explain what may have
happened.

(a) Near objects has moved away and has difficulty in reading near objects
(b) Near objects have moved forward and no difficulty in reading things
(c) Near point of his eye has receded and he has difficulty in reading things which are closer
(d) Near point of his eye has moved forward and has difficulty in reading things which are closer
16. An angular magnification (magnifying power) of 30X is desired using an objective of focal length
1.25 cm and an eyepiece of focal length 5 cm. How will you set up the compound microscope?

(a) 1.67 cm (b) 11cm (c) 11.66 cm (d) 11.7 cm