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PHYSICS SHEET # 9 (Total internal reflection) BATCH: ACME
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1. If velocity of light in air is 3 × 108 m/s and that in 6. 4
8 If the refractive index of water is and that of
water is 2 × 10 m/s, then what would be the 3
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critical angle :- glass slab is , then the critical angle of incidence
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(1) sin–1 (3/2) (2) tan–1 (3/2) for which light going from glass to water is totally
reflected is :-
(3) tan–1 (2/3) (4) sin–1 (2/3)
(1) 3 (2) 3
2. A glass slab has a critical angle of 30° when place sin−1 ( ) sin−1 ( )
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in air. What will be the critical angle when it is
(3) 2 (4) 4
placed in liquid of refractive index 6/5 :- sin−1 ( ) sin−1 ( )
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(1) 45° (2) 37° (3) 53° (4) 60°
7. White light is incident on the interface of glass and
3. A ray of light is incident at the glass-water air as shown in the figure. If green light is just
interface at an angle i, it emerges finally parallel to totally internally reflected then the emerging ray in
the surface of water, then the value of µg would be air contains :-
:-
(1) Yellow, orange, red
(2) Violet, indigo, blue
(1) (4/3)sin i (2) 1/sin i
(3) All colours
(3) 4/3 (4) 1
(4) All colours except green
4. A light ray is incident at an angle 30º on a
transparent surface separating two media. If the 8. If the critical angle for the internal reflection from a
angle of refraction is 60º then critical angle is medium to vacuum is 30°, the velocity of light in
the medium is
(1) 1
sin−1 ( ) (2) sin−1 ( 3)√
(1) 3×108 m/s (2) 1.5×108 m/s
√ 3
(3) 2
(3) 6×108 m/s (4) √ 3 × 108 m/s
sin−1 ( ) (4) 45°
3 9. If light travels a distance x in t1 sec in air and 10 x
5. The velocity of light in a medium is half of its distance in t2 sec in a medium. The critical angle of
velocity in air. If ray of light emerges from such a the medium will be :-
medium in to air. The angle of incidence at which it (1) t1 (2) t1
tan−1 ( ) sin−1 ( )
will be totally internal reflected is :- t2 t2
(1) 15° (2) 30° (3) 45° (4) 60° (3) 10t1 (4) 10t1
sin−1 ( ) tan−1 ( )
t2 t2
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10. A fish is a little away below the surface of a lake. If 14. A transparent solid cylindrical rod has a refractive
the critical angle is 49°, then the fish could see 2
index of . It is surrounded by air. A light ray is
things above the water surface within an angular √ 3
incident at the mid point of one end of the rod as
range of θ° where shown in the figure.
The incident angle θ for which the light ray grazes
along the wall of the rod is :-
(1) θ = 49° (2) θ = 90°
(1) 1 (2) √3
(3) θ = 98°
(4) 1∘ sin–1 ( ) sin–1( )
θ = 24 2 2
2
11. 5 (3) 2 (4) 1
A large glass slab μ= ) of thickness 8cm is
(
3 sin–1 ( ) sin–1 ( )
placed over a point source of light on a plane √ 3 √ 3
surface. It is seen that light emerges out of the top 15. For total internal reflection to take place, the angle
surface of the slab from a circular area of radius R of incidence i and the refractive index µ of the
medium must satisfy the inequality :-
cm. What is the value of R ?
(1) 1 (2) 1
<μ >μ
sin i sin i
(1) 3 (2) 6 (3) 5 (4) 8 (3) sin i < µ (4) sin i > µ
12. A ray of light from a denser medium strikes a rarer Critical angle for light going from medium (i) to
medium at an angle of incidence i. If the reflected 16.
and refracted rays are mutually perpendicular to (ii) is θ. The speed of light in medium (i) is υ then
each other then what is the value of critical angle ? speed in medium (ii) is
(1) υ(1 – cos θ) (2) υ / sin θ
(1) sin–(tan i) (2) cos–(tan i)
(3) υ / cos θ (4) υ(1 – sin θ)
(3) sin–(cot i) (4) None of these
17. When a ray is refracted from one medium
13. An optical fibre consists of core of μ1 surrounded to another, the wavelength changes from 6000 Å to
by a cladding of μ2 < μ1. A beam of light enters 4000 Å. The critical angle for the interface will be
from air at an angle α with axis of fibre. The
highest α for which ray can be travelled through (1) −1 2 (2) −1 2
fibre is cos ( ) sin ( )
3 √ 3
(3) 2 (4) 2
sin−1 ( ) cos−1 ( )
3 √ 3
18. In optical fiber we use phenomena of
(1) cos−1 √ μ22 − μ21 (2) sin−1 √ μ21 − μ22
(1) Scattering (2) Total internal reflection
(3) tan−1 √ μ1 − μ2
2 2 (4) sec−1 √ μ1 − μ2
2 2
(3) Polarization (4) Diffraction
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