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Refraction of Refraction — Science STD 10 — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 10ScienceRefraction of Refraction5 Marks
Question
A student did an experiment with a convex lens. He put an object at different distances 25cm, 30cm, 40cm, 60cm and 120cm from the lens. In each case he measured the distance of the image from the lens. His results were 100cm, 24cm, 60cm, 30cm and 40cm, respectively. Unfortunately his results are written in wrong order:
  1. Rewrite the image distances in the correct order.
  2. What would be the image distance if the object distance was 90cm?
  3. Which of the object distances gives the biggest image?
  4. What is the focal length of this lens?
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Answer

  1. Since the focal length is a constant quantity, we have to pair the object distance (u) and the image distance (v) such that the focal length always comes out to be the same. From the above argument, we get the correct order of the image distance as 100, 60, 40, 30 and 24. The reason being, as the object is carried far from a convex lens, the image is formed closer to the lens.
  2. Lens formula is given by,

$\frac{1}{\text{f}}=\frac{1}{\text{v}}-\frac{1}{\text{u}}$

$\Rightarrow\frac{1}{20}=\frac{1}{\text{v}}-\frac{1}{-90}$

$\Rightarrow\frac{1}{20}=\frac{1}{\text{v}}+\frac{1}{90}$

$\Rightarrow\frac{1}{\text{v}}=\frac{1}{20}-\frac{1}{90}$

$\Rightarrow\frac{1}{\text{v}}=\frac{9-2}{180}$

$\Rightarrow\frac{1}{\text{v}}=\frac{7}{180}$

$\Rightarrow{\text{u}}=\frac{180}{7}$

$\Rightarrow{\text{u}}=25.7\text{cm}$

The image distance will be 25.7cm if the object distance is 90cm.

  1. The object distance of 25 gives the biggest image because at this position, the object is between f and 2f. We know that when an object is placed between f and 2f of a convex lens, we get a real, inverted and magnified image.
  2. The image of an object at 2f is formed at 2f. This means that the pair of u and v that is equal in value gives us the value of 2f, which is 40. Hence, the value of f (focal length) is $\frac{40}{2}$

$\therefore\ \text{f}=20\text{cm}$

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