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NAME: _______________________ DATE: _________________
Topic: Light
1. Choose the correct answer.
i. A parallel beam of light is incident on a plane mirror. [2023-specimen-paper-1]
Which diagram shows how the beam is reflected by the mirror?

B
ii. A boy sees a fish in a lake. [2023-specimen-paper-1]
Which labelled path is taken by the light travelling from the fish to the boy’s eye?

C
iii. An object is placed 8.0cm from a thin converging lens of focal length 5.0 cm. [2023-specimen-paper-2]

Which statement about the image formed by the lens is correct?

A. The image is real and inverted. C. The image is virtual and inverted.
B. The image is real and upright. D. The image is virtual and upright.

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iv. Which diagram shows the formation of a real image of an object O placed in front of a converging lens?
[2023-specimen-paper-1]

D
v. A ray of light travels through transparent plastic to air. [2023-specimen-paper-2]

The ray of light enters the air travelling parallel to the surface of the plastic.
The refractive index of the plastic is 1.25.
What is angle θ?
A. 37° B. 39° C. 51° D. 53°
vi. An object is placed in front of a thin converging lens. [june-2021-question-paper-11]
The diagram shows the paths of two rays from the top of the object.

An image of the object is formed on a screen to the right of the lens.

How does this image compare with the object?
A. It is larger and inverted. C. It is smaller and inverted.
B. It is larger and the same way up. D. It is smaller and the same way up.

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vii. The diagram shows a narrow beam of light incident on a glass-air boundary. Some of the light emerges along the
surface of the glass and some is reflected back into the glass. [june-2021-question-paper-11]

Which row is correct?

A
viii. Light travelling at a speed of 3.0  10 m / s strikes the surface of a glass block and undergoes refraction as it
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enters the block.

The diagram shows a ray of this light before and after it enters the block.

What is the speed of light in the glass?

A. 1.8  108 m / s B. 2.0  108 m / s C. 4.5  108 m / s D. 5.0  108 m / s
ix. What is the name and shape of the lens used to correct short sight? [5054_w17_qp_11]

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x. A solid plastic cylinder is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1.4. Light travelling in the plastic cylinder strikes
the inside surface at an angle of incidence of 70°. The light undergoes total internal reflection.[5054_w17_qp_11]

What are the values of the critical angle in the plastic and the refractive index of the plastic?

C
xi. An object is placed in front of a converging lens. The lens forms a magnified image of the object on a screen.
Which statement is correct? [5054_w17_qp_11]
A. The distance between the object and the lens is greater than the focal length.
B. The image formed is a virtual image.
C. The image is the right way up.
D. The lens is acting as a magnifying glass.
xii. Which diagram shows reflection by a plane mirror? [5054_w17_qp_12]

A
xiii. Light is incident on a plastic block of refractive index 1.5. [5054_w17_qp_12]
The angle of incidence is 50°.
What is the angle of refraction?
A. 31° B. 33° C. 40° D. 75°

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xiv. The ray diagrams, X and Y, show two ways in which a thin converging lens produces an image that is larger than
the object. [5054_w17_qp_12]

Which devices use a lens as shown in diagram X and in diagram Y?

B
xv. The angle of incidence of ray OP on the plane mirror MN is 40°. [5054_w16_qp_11]

The mirror is rotated through 10°, as shown by the dashed line. The direction of the incident ray OP does not
change.
What is the new angle of incidence?
A. 30° B. 40° C. 50° D. 60°
xvi. A girl is long-sighted. [5054_w16_qp_12]
Which statement is correct?
A. She sees close objects less clearly than a person with normal vision.
B. She sees distant objects more clearly than a person with normal vision.
C. The fault is corrected with a diverging lens.
D. The image of a close object is formed in front of her retina.

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xvii. In the diagram, a convex lens forms an image I of an object O. The diagram is not drawn to scale.
[5054_w16_qp_11]

What is the focal length of the lens?

A. 16 cm B. 20 cm C. 36 cm D. 45 cm
xviii. A ray of light is incident on the surface of a glass block. The diagram is not drawn to scale.
The refractive index of the glass is 1.5. [5054_w16_qp_11]

The angle of refraction is r. The angle between the refracted ray and the path the light takes without the glass
block is d.
What are r and d?

C
xix. Which statement about red light and blue light is correct? [5054_w15_qp_11]
A. Red light has a higher frequency than blue light.
B. Red light has a longer wavelength than blue light.
C. Red light has the same speed in glass as blue light.
D. Red light is refracted by a glass prism more than blue light.

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xx. A lens is used to produce a magnified image, as shown in the scale diagram. [5054_w16_qp_11]

What is the linear magnification produced by the lens?

A. 0.33 B. 3.0 C. 4.0 D. 6.0
xxi. A ray of light in a transparent medium of refractive index 1.8 is incident on the surface as shown.
The light enters air. [5054_w15_qp_11]

What is the angle between the refracted ray and the normal in air?
A. 29° B. 33° C. 54° D. 64°
xxii. An object is viewed through a converging lens. [5054_w15_qp_12]
The diagram shows the paths of two rays from the top of the object to an eye.

How does the image compare with the object?

A. It is larger and inverted. C. It is smaller and inverted.
B. It is larger and upright. D. It is smaller and upright.

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2. (a) A ray of light refracts as it travels from air into glass, as shown in Fig. 8.1. [2023-specimen-paper-3]

State which angle w, x, y or z, is the angle of refraction.

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(b) Fig. 8.2 represents some wavefronts approaching a barrier with a narrow gap.

On Fig. 8.2, draw three wavefronts that have passed through the gap. [3]
3. (a) Fig. 6.1 shows a converging lens and its principal axis. The points F1 and F2 are each a principal focus
of the lens. [2023-specimen-paper-4]

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 An object O is placed between F1 and the lens.
(i) On Fig. 6.1, draw two rays from the top of the object O to locate the image. Label the image I. [3]
(ii) The object O is moved to the left along the principal axis so that it is further from the lens than F1.
Fig. 6.2 is a diagram of the new arrangement with the new image shown.

Underline three of the terms below that describe the image shown in Fig. 6.2.
diminished enlarged inverted real same size upright virtual [2]
(b) Fig. 6.3 shows yellow light passing through a glass prism.

Blue light enters the prism along the same path as the yellow light.
On Fig. 6.3, draw the path of the blue light as it enters, passes through and leaves the prism. [2]

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4. A narrow beam of white light enters a glass prism and splits into the colours of the visible spectrum, as
shown in Fig. 7.1. [june-2021-question-paper-31]

(a) The rays leaving the prism represent the seven main colours of the visible spectrum.
Complete the labelling on Fig. 7.1 by writing the colours of the visible spectrum in the table. [2]
(b) State the term used to describe:
(i) the bending of the light as it enters the prism.
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(ii) the different amounts of bending that produce the spectrum.
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(c) A student incorrectly writes some sentences about electromagnetic waves. His teacher circles a mistake
in each sentence.
In the table, write a suitable correction for each mistake. The first one has been done for you.

[2]

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5. Fig. 10.2 shows a ray of green light in air striking the side of a glass prism. [5054_w17_qp_21]

The refractive index of the glass for green light is 1.5.

On Fig. 10.2,
1. draw the normal for this ray,
2. mark the angle of incidence with a letter i. [1]
(b) This angle of incidence is 57°.
Calculate the angle of refraction in the glass.

angle of refraction = .......................................................... [2]

(c) State what happens, as the light enters the glass, to the light’s

1. frequency, ................................................................................................................................................

2. speed, .....................................................................................................................................................

3. wavelength. ........................................................................................................................................ [2]

(d) On Fig. 10.2, draw the path taken by the light as it passes through the glass and into the air. [2]
6. A lamp is positioned at the bottom of a small pool of water. The critical angle for light passing from water into
air is 49°. [5054_w16_qp_21]
(a) Explain what is meant by the term critical angle.

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(b) The lamp sends light towards the surface of the pool.
Fig. 4.1 shows three rays of light that are at 30°, 60° and 90° to the horizontal.

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 On Fig. 4.1, draw the path taken by each of the three rays after they strike the surface of the water. [3]
7. A laser produces a beam of red light. [5054_w16_qp_22]
(a) The red light from the laser has a frequency of 4.3 × 1014Hz.
(ii) State the speed of light in air.
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(iii) Calculate the wavelength of this red light in air.

wavelength = ...........................................................[2]
(b) Red light from the laser strikes one side of a glass prism at an angle of incidence i. The light refracts
towards the normal as it enters the prism.
Fig. 10.1 shows the prism, the light and a screen.

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 (i) State what happens to the speed of light as it enters the glass.

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(ii) The refractive index of the glass is 1.5.

The angle of refraction in the glass, where the light enters the prism, is 30°.
Calculate the angle of incidence i.

i = ........................................................... [2]
(iii) The light then passes back into the air and strikes the front of the white screen, as shown in Fig. 10.1.
Calculate θ, the angle between the ray in air and the side of the prism.

θ = ...........................................................[1]
(c) The laser in (b) is replaced with a filament lamp and a slit, as shown in Fig. 10.2.

A ray of white light now strikes the prism.

(i) On Fig. 10.2, draw what happens to the light as it passes through the prism and strikes the screen. [2]
(ii) Describe what is seen on the screen.

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8. A burning candle is placed close to a thin converging lens. The candle acts as the object.
A white, vertical screen is moved to a position on the other side of the lens from the candle.
Fig. 6.1 is a full-scale diagram, on graph paper, of the lens and the screen. [5054_w15_qp_21]

The focal length of the lens is 2.4 cm. The screen is 7.2 cm from the centre of the lens. A sharply focused,
inverted image of the candle is produced on the screen, as shown in Fig. 6.1.
(a) Define the term focal length.

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(b) (i) On Fig. 6.1, mark and label with an F, each of the two focal points (principal foci) of the lens. [1]
(ii) The point Y is the tip of the image.
On Fig. 6.1, draw a ray diagram to locate the position of the top of the object.
Label this point X. [3]
(iii) Using Fig. 6.1, determine the distance of the candle from the centre of the lens.

distance = ........................................................ [1]

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Prepared By: M. Kamran, Beaconhouse School System Boys, BMI-B, H-8/4, Islamabad
Prepared By: M. Kamran, Beaconhouse School System Boys, BMI-B, H-8/4, Islamabad