Practice problems
Ray Optics- Set4
1. A ray of light falling at an angle of 50° is refracted through a prism and suffers
minimum deviation. Then angle of the prism is 60°. Find the angle of minimum
deviation and refractive index of the material of the prism
2. For a glass prism (𝑛 = √3) the angle of minimum deviation is equal to the angle of
the prism. Find the angle of the prism.
3. A ray of light passing through an equilateral triangular glass prism from air undergoes
minimum deviation when the angle of incidence is 3/4th of the angle of the prism.
Calculate the refractive index of the material of the prism and the speed of light in the
prism.
4. A glass prism is immersed completely in water. How does the angle of minimum
deviation change?
5. Draw the ray diagram showing the refraction of light through a glass prism and hence
obtain the refractive index n of the prism and angle of minimum deviation. Plot a
graph between the angle of incidence and the angle of deviation
6. The focal length of the objective and eyepiece of a microscope are 1.25 cm and 5 cm
respectively. Find the position of the object relative to the objective in order to obtain
an angular magnification of 30 in normal adjustment.
7. A compound microscope with an objective of 1 cm in focal length and an eyepiece of
2 cm focal length has a tube length of 20 cm. Calculate the magnifying power of the
microscope if the final image is formed near point of the eye.
8. A compound microscope has an objective of focal length 1 cm and an eye piece of
focal length 2.5 cm. An object has to be placed at a distance of 1.2 cm away from the
objective for normal adjustment. Find the angular magnification and the length of the
tube
9. The total magnification produced by a compound microscope is 20. The
magnification produced by the eye piece is 5. The microscope is focused on a certain
object. The distance between the objective and the eye piece is observed to be 14 cm.
If least distance of distinct vision is 20 cm, Calculate the focal length of objective and
eye piece
10. A compound microscope has a magnifying power of 100 when the image is formed at
infinity. The objective has a focal length of 0.5 cm and the tube length is 6.5 cm. find
the focal length of eye piece
11. A compound microscope uses an objective lens of focal length 4 cm and an eyepiece
lens of focal length 10 cm. An object is placed at 6 cm from the objective lens.
Calculate the magnifying power and the tube length.
12. Magnifying power of a telescope is 9. When it is adjusted for parallel rays, the
distance between the objective and the eye piece is 20 cm. Calculate the focal lengths
of eye piece and objective
13. An astronomical telescope of tenfold angular magnification has a tube length of 44
cm. What is the focal length of the objective lens
14. A small telescope has an objective lens of focal length 144 cm and an eye piece of
focal length 6 cm. What is the magnifying power of the telescope? What is the
separation between the objective and the eye piece?
15. A giant telescope at an observatory has an objective lens of focal length 15m and an
eye piece of focal length 1 cm are used. What is the angular magnification of the
telescope? If the telescope is used to view moon, what is the diameter of the image of
the moon formed by the objective lens? The diameter of the moon is 3.48 x 106 m and
the radius of lunar orbit is 3.8 x 108m.
16. A telescope consists of two lenses of focal lengths 100 cm and 5 cm. find the
magnifying power when the image is formed at infinity
17. Why is aperture of the objective lens of a telescope taken large?
18. State how large magnification is achieved in an astronomical telescope.
19. Derive the expression for the magnifying power of a compound microscope with the
help of a ray diagram
20. Describe an astronomical telescope. Derive the expression for its magnifying power
when the image is at infinity