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A ray of light is incident on a surface of glass slab at an angle 45°.The angle of refraction if the lateral shift produced per unit thickness is13m 

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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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A cubical vessel has opaque walls. An observer (dark circle in the figure below) is located, such that she can see only the wall, CD, but not the bottom. Nearly to what height should water be poured, so that she can see an object placed at the bottom at a distance of, 10 cm, from the corner, C? Refractive index of water is, 1.33.

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A girls sees through a circular glass slab (refractive index 1.5) of thickness 20 mm and diameter 60 cm to the bottom of a swimming pool. The refractive index of water is 1.33. The bottom surface of the slab is in contact with the water surface.

The depth of the swimming pool is 6 m. The area of the bottom of the swimming pool that can be seen through the slab is approximate-
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Electromagnetic waves emanating from a point A (in air) are incident on a rectangular block of material M and emerge from the other side as shown below. The angles i and r are angles of incidence and refraction when the wave travels from air to the medium. Such paths for the rays are possible,

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A ray of light AO in vacuum is incident on a glass slab at angle 60° and refracted at angle 30° along OB as shown in the figure. The optical path length of light ray from A to B is:
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A ray of light is incident normally on a glass slab of thickness 5 cm and refractive index 1.6. The time taken to travel by a ray from source to surface of the slab is the same as to travel through glass slab. The distance of the source from the surface is
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The angle of a prism is ‘ A ’. One of its refracting surfaces is silvered. Light rays falling at an angle of incidence 2A on the first surface returns back through the same path after suffering reflection at the silvered surface. The refractive index μ, of the prism is:
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Let the refractive index of a denser medium with respect to rarer medium be n12 and its critical angle be θC . At an angle of incidence A when light is travelling from denser medium to rarer medium, a part of the light is reflected and the rest is refracted and the angle between reflected and refracted rays is 90o. Angle A is given by 
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The angle made by incident ray of light with the reflecting surface is called
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When the same monochromatic ray of light travels through glass slab and through water, the number of waves in glass slab of thickness 6 cm is same as in water column of height 7 cm. If refractive index of glass is 1.5 then refractive index of water is
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When light enters glass from vacuum, then the wavelength of light
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Consider a tank made of glass (refractive index 1.5 ) with a thick bottom. It is filled with a liquid of refractive index μ. A student finds that, irrespective of what the incident angle i (see figure) is for a beam of light entering the liquid, the light reflected from the liquid glass interface is never completely polarized. For this to happen, the minimum value of μ is:

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A vessel of depth 2h is half filled with a liquid of refractive index 22 and the upper half with another liquid of refractive index 2 . The liquids are immiscible. The apparent depth of the inner surface of the bottom of the vessel will be
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The angles of incidence and refraction of a monochromatic ray of light of wavelength λ at an air-glass interface are i and r, respectively. A parallel beam of light with a small spread δλ in wavelength about a mean wavelength λ is refracted at the same air-glass interface. The refractive index μ of glass depends on the wavelength λ as μλ=a+bλ2 where a and b are constants. Then the angular speed in the angle of refraction of the beam is
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The reflected ray is completely polarized for certain angle of incidence in a transparent medium. If the angle of refraction is 30°, then the refractive index of the medium is
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A glass slab of thickness 4 cm contains the same number of waves as in x cm of water column when both are traversed by the same monochromatic light. If the refractive indices of glass and water for that light are 53 and 43 respectively, the value of x will be
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A diver, 30 m below water surface is trying to shine a torch light towards the point O which is horizontally 30 m away. The amount and direction in which diver has to swim (in the figure) so that the light can not travel outside the surface of water is (Refractive index of water =43)

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A horizontal parallel beam of light passes through a vertical convex lens of focal length, 20 cm and is then reflected by a tilted plane mirror so that it converges to a point I . The distance PI is 10 cm.

M is a point at which the axis of the lens intersects the mirror. The distance PM is 10 cm. The angle which the mirror makes with the horizontal is,
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A light wave is incident normally on a glass slab of refractive index 1.5. If 4% of light gets reflected and the amplitude of the electric field of the incident light is 30 Vm, then the amplitude of the electric field for the wave propagating in the glass medium will be:
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The refractive index of the material of a prism is 2 and the angle of the prism is 30o. One of the two refracting surface of the prism is made a mirror inwards, by silver coating. A beam of monochromatic light entering the prism from the other face will retrace its path (after reflection from the silvered surface) if its angle of incidence on the prism is