A beam of light from a source L is incident normally on a plane mirror fixed at a certain distance x from the source. The beam is reflected back as a spot on a scale placed just above the source L. When the mirror is rotated through a small angle $\theta$, the spot of light is found to move through a distance y on the scale. The angle $\theta$ is given by 

1. $\frac{y}{2x}$

2. $\frac{y}{x}$

3. $\frac{x}{2y}$

4. $\frac{x}{y}$

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

1. 8           

2. 10

3. 12         

4. 16

A person can see clearly objects only when they lie between 50 cm and 400 cm from his eyes. In order to increase the maximum distance of distinct vision to infinity, the type and power of the correcting lens, the person has to use will be-

1. convex, +2.25 diopter

2. concave, - 0.25 diopter

3. concave, - 0.2 diopter

4. convex, + 0.15 diopter

A linear aperture whose width is 0.02 cm is placed immediately in front of a lens of focal length 60 cm. The aperture is illuminated normally by a parallel beam of wavelength $5\times {10}^{-5}$ cm. The distance of the first dark band of the diffraction pattern from the centre of the screen is

1. 0.10 cm             

2. 0.25 cm 

3. 0.20 cm             

4. 0.15 cm

An astronomical telescope has an objective and eyepiece of focal lengths 40 cm and 4 cm respectively. To view an object 200 cm away from the objective, the lenses must be separated by a distance of :
1. 46.0 cm

2. 50.0 cm  

3. 54.0 cm

4. 37.3 cm 

A beam of light consisting of red, green and blue colours is incident on a right angled prism. The refractive index of the material of the prism for the above red, green and blue wavelengths are 1.39, 1.44 and 1.47, respectively.


The prism will

1. separate the blue colour part from the red and green colours

2. separate all the three colours from one another

3. not separate the three colours at all

4. separate the red colour part from the green and blue colours

If the focal length of the objective lens is increased, then magnifying power of :

1. microscope will increase but that of telescope decrease

2. microscope and telescope both will increase

3. microscope and telescope both will decrease

4. microscope will decrease but that of telescope will increase

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

1. 2sinA
 

2. 2cosA
 

3. 1/2cosA
 

4. tanA

A plane-convex lens fits exactly into a plano-concave lens. Their plane surfaces are parallel to each other. If lenses are made of different materials of refractive indices \(\mu_1\) and \(\mu_2\) and \(R\) is the radius of curvature of the curved surface of the lenses, then the focal length of the combination is:

For a normal eye, the cornea of eye provides a converging power of 40 D and the least converging power of the eye lens behind the cornea is 20 D. Using this information, the distance between the retina and the cornea-eye lens can be estimated to be

1. 5 cm
2. 25 cm
3. 1.67 cm
4. 1.5 cm