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Important Questions on Ray Optics

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The path of a light ray inside a transparent slab of variable refractive index is y=4x2. A light ray travelling in air falls on the surface of the slab at an angle 30° as shown in the figure. The refractive index of the slab at y=0.5 m is

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A beaker contains oil upto a height of 28 mm and water upto height of 26 mm. Find the apparent shift in position of the bottom of the beaker when viewed from the top nwater =1.33, noil=1.4
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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 small coin is fixed at the center of the base of an empty cylindrical steel container having radius R=1 m and height d=4 m. At time t=0 s, the container starts getting filled with water at a flowrate of Q=0.1 m3/s without disturbing the coin. Find the approximate time when the coin will first be seen by the observer "O" from the height of H=5.75 m above and L=1.5 m radially away from the coin as shown in the figure. Refractive index of water is n=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.
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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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To a fish under water, viewing obliquely a fisher-man standing on the bank of a lake, does appear as
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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 glass tumbler having inner depth of 17.5 cm is kept on a table. A student starts pouring water μ=43 into it while looking at the surface of water from the above. When he feels that the tumbler is half filled, he stops pouring water. Up to what height, the tumbler is actually filled ?
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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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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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Time taken by the sunlight to pass through a slab of 4 cm and refractive index 1.5 is ______ s.
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An air bubble in a glass slab with refractive index 1.5 (near-normal incidence) is 5 cm deep when viewed from one surface and 3 cm deep when viewed from the opposite face. The thickness (in cm) of the slab is
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The difference in the number of waves when yellow light propagates through air and vacuum columns of the same thickness is one. The thickness of the air column is _____ mm. [Refractive index of air =1.0003, the wavelength of yellow light in vacuum =6000 A]
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A glass beaker is filled with water up to 5 cm. It is kept on top of a 2 cm thick glass slab. When a coin at the bottom of the glass slab is viewed at the normal incidence from above the beaker, its apparent depth from the water surface is d. Value of d is close to (the refractive indices of water and glass are 1.33 and 1.5, respectively)
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What is lateral shift with respect to optics?
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Light of wavelength λ=500 nm in vacuum, travels a distance of 1 cm in a slab of glass, whose refractive index is 1.5. How many complete wavelengths of light will be included in this path?
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A converging lens forms a real image I on its optic axis. A rectangular glass slab of refractive index μ and thickness t is introduced between the lens and the image I. The image I will move
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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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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.
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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 travelling microscope is focused on an ink dot. When a glass slab (n=1.5) of thickness 9 cm is introduced on the dot, the travelling microscope has to be moved by