Deck 36: Image Formation

Question 1

A concave mirror has a radius of curvature of 1.0 m. An object is placed 2.0 m in front of the mirror. Determine the location of the image (in cm).

A) 130
B) 83
C) 67
D) 150
E) 200

Answer 1

67

Question 2

An object is placed 15 cm in front of a concave mirror with a focal length of 30 cm. What is the magnification?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 1/2
D) 1/4
E) −2

Answer 2

2

Question 3

The actual depth of a shallow pool 1.00 m deep is not the same as the apparent depth seen when you look straight down at the pool from above. How deep (in cm) will it appear to be? (n_water = 1.33.)

A) 133
B) 75.2
C) 90.6
D) 117
E) 100

Answer 3

75.2

Question 4

An object is placed 10 cm in front of a concave mirror with a 20-cm focal length. Determine the image location (in cm).

A) −20
B) −15
C) −10
D) −5
E) 6.7

Question 5

Bottles of perfume sometimes have thick glass (n = 1.5) walls which give the impression the volume is larger than it really is. Assume a cylindrical bottle with an inner radius of 1.0 cm and an outer radius of 2.0 cm. What percentage of the apparent volume is the real volume?

A) 95%
B) 60%
C) 80%
D) 64%
E) 75%

Question 6

Bottles of perfume sometimes have thick glass (n = 1.5) walls which give the impression the volume is larger than it is. Assume a cylindrical bottle has an inner radius of 1.0 cm and an outer radius of 2.0 cm. How thick (in cm) would the wall appear if you could see a mark on the inside surface?

A) 0.80
B) 0.51
C) 0.72
D) 80
E) 12

Question 7

An object 4 cm high is placed 15 cm in front of a convex mirror with a focal length of −10 cm. What is the image position (in cm)?

A) −8
B) −4
C) −2
D) −6
E) 30

Question 8

A concave mirror has a focal length of 20 cm. What is the magnification if the object's distance is 100 cm?

A) 1/2
B) 1/4
C) −2
D) 4
E) −1/4

Question 9

A concave mirror has a focal length of 20 cm. What is the position (in cm) of the object if the image is upright and is two times larger than the object?

A) 30
B) 20
C) 10
D) 40
E) 60

Question 10

A dentist uses a concave mirror (focal length 2 cm) to examine some teeth. If the distance from the object to the mirror is 1 cm, what is the magnification of the tooth?

A) 6
B) 1
C) 4
D) 2
E) 1.5

Question 11

A convex mirror has a focal length of −20 cm. What is the position of the resulting image (in cm) if the image is upright and four times smaller than the object?

A) −100
B) −25
C) −50
D) −15
E) −10

Question 12

A convex mirror has a focal length of −20 cm. What is the object distance if the image distance is −10 cm?

A) 10 cm
B) 40 cm
C) 60 cm
D) 20 cm
E) 30 cm

Question 13

A clown 2 m tall looks at himself in a full-length mirror (floor-to-ceiling). Where in the mirror must he look to see his feet?

A) 1 m from the floor
B) 50 cm from the floor
C) 25 cm from the floor
D) at the bottom of the mirror
E) 1.5 m from the floor

Question 14

An object 50-cm high is placed 1.0 m in front of a converging lens whose focal length is 1.5 m. Determine the image height (in cm).

A) 77
B) 150
C) 52
D) 17
E) 83

Question 15

An object 20-cm high is placed 50.0 cm in front of a lens whose focal length is 5.00 cm. Where will the image be located (in cm)?

A) 5.13
B) 5.56
C) 5.72
D) 5.93
E) 4.55

Question 16

An object 15 cm high is placed 15 cm in front of a convex mirror with a focal length of −10 cm. What is the image height (in cm)?

A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8
E) 30

Question 17

An object is placed 15 cm in front of a diverging lens whose focal length is 12 cm. Where will the image be located (in cm)?

A) −6.7
B) −7.2
C) −0.15
D) −60
E) −5.0

Question 18

A concave mirror has a focal length of 20 cm. What is the magnification if the object and image distances are 10 cm and −20 cm respectively?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 1/2
D) 1/4
E) −1/2

Question 19

A plane convex lens is made of glass (n = 1.5) with one flat surface and the other having a radius of 20 cm. What is the focal length (in cm) of the lens?

A) 20
B) 30
C) 40
D) 10
E) 50

Question 20

A concave mirror has a focal length of 20 cm. What is the position (in cm) of the resulting image if the image is inverted and four times smaller than the object?

A) 15
B) 25
C) 50
D) 100
E) −15

Question 21

The purpose of prescription glasses for a near-sighted person is to bring the apparent positions of distant objects

A) to the far point of the eye
B) to the near point of the eye
C) to the retina of the eye
D) none of the above

Question 22

An object is placed 25 cm in front of a lens of focal length 20 cm. 60 cm past the first lens is a second lens of focal length 25 cm. How far past the 25 cm lens does the final image form?

A) 20 cm
B) 40 cm
C) 16 cm
D) 25 cm
E) 47 cm

Question 23

The object in a ray diagram is perpendicular to the principal axis but does not have one end lying on the principal axis. The minimum number of rays that must be drawn in this ray diagram in order to determine the position of the image is

A) 1.
B) 2.
C) 3.
D) 4.
E) 5.

Question 24

A far-sighted student has a near point of 1.0 m. Calculate the focal length (in cm) of the glasses needed so the near point will be normal (25 cm).

A) 72
B) 25
C) 33
D) 100
E) −33

Question 25

When you stand in front of a convex mirror, the image you see is

A) real and inverted.
B) real and upright.
C) virtual and inverted.
D) virtual and upright.
E) real and inverted if your distance from the mirror is greater than two focal lengths.

Question 26

If a convex lens were made out of very thin clear plastic filled with air, and were then placed underwater where n = 1.33 and where the lens would have an effective index of refraction n = 1, the lens would act in the same way

A) as a concave mirror in air.
B) as a concave lens in air.
C) as a convex lens in air.
D) as a flat refracting surface between water and air as seen from the water side.
E) as the glasses worn by a farsighted person.

Question 27

A contact lens is made of plastic with an index of refraction of 1.50. The lens has an outer radius of curvature of +2.0 cm and an inner radius of curvature of +2.5 cm. What are the focal length and the power of the lens?

Question 28

The image of an object beneath the surface of a medium of refractive index n > 1 is seen in air by a person looking down on the surface. This image, formed by light rays leaving the flat refractive surface, is

A) real and closer to the viewer than the object.
B) virtual and closer to the viewer than the object.
C) real and farther from the viewer than the object.
D) virtual and farther from the viewer than the object.
E) virtual and the same distance from the viewer as the object.

Question 29

A camera has a converging lens with a focal length of 56 mm. If the f-number is 2.8, what is the diameter of the lens (in mm)?

A) 10
B) 31
C) 0.50
D) 20
E) 50

Question 30

The inhabitants of a planet in another galaxy have their eyes at the exact center of their 4.0-m long bodies. How long must a plane mirror be for such a creature to be able to see all of its body in the mirror?

A) 1.0 m
B) 2.0 m
C) 2.5 m
D) 4.0 m
E) 8.0 m

Question 31

A compound microscope is made with an objective lens (f₀ = 0.900 cm) and an eyepiece (f_e = 1.10 cm). The lenses are separated by a distance of 10.0 cm. What is the angular magnification? (Assume the near point is 25.0 cm.)

A) −253
B) −450
C) −770
D) −980
E) −635

Question 32

A girl is sitting on the edge of a pier with her legs dangling over the water. Her soles are 80.0 cm above the surface of the water. A boy in the water looks up at her feet and wants to touch them with a reed. (n_water = 1.333.) He will see her soles as being

A) right at the water surface.
B) 53.3 cm above the water surface.
C) exactly 80.0 cm above the water surface.
D) 107 cm above the water surface.
E) an infinite distance above the water surface.

Question 33

Of the possible statements that parallel rays are brought to a focus by a 1)
Concave mirror,
2)
Convex mirror,
3)
Converging lens,
4)
Diverging lens,
The correct answer is

A) 1 and 2.
B) 3 and 4.
C) 1 and 3.
D) 2 and 3.
E) 2 and 4.

Question 34

An object is placed 25 cm in front of a lens of focal length 20 cm. 60 cm past the first lens is a second lens of focal length 25 cm. What is the resulting magnification of the object in this setup?

A)

B)

C)

D)

E)

Question 35

A magnifying glass has a convex lens of focal length 15 cm. At what distance from a postage stamp should you hold this lens to get a magnification of +2.0?

Question 36

A fish is 80 cm below the surface of a pond. What is the apparent depth (in cm) when viewed from a position almost directly above the fish? (For water, n = 1.33.)

A) 50
B) 60
C) 40
D) 70
E) 110

Question 37

A 10-cm focal length converging lens is used to magnify small newspaper print 2.0 mm high. Calculate the height of the image (in mm) for the maximum magnification for a normal eye.

A) 3.5
B) 7.0
C) 9.2
D) 12
E) 2.5

Question 38

A compound microscope is made with an objective lens ( = 0.90 cm) and an eyepiece ( = 1.1 cm). The lenses are separated by a distance of 10 cm. If an object is 1.0 cm in front of the objective lens, where will the final image of the eyepiece be located?

A) −30
B) −15
C) −23
D) −11
E) −9

Question 39

A telescope is constructed with two lenses separated by a distance of 25 cm. The focal length of the objective is 20 cm. The focal length of the eyepiece is 5 cm. Calculate the magnitude of the angular magnification of the telescope.

A) 6
B) 4
C) 8
D) 10
E) 5

Question 40

If you stand closer to a concave mirror than a distance of one focal length, the image you see is

A) real and inverted.
B) real and upright.
C) virtual and inverted.
D) virtual and upright.
E) none of the above because you do not get an image.

Question 41

Suppose an object is placed 6.0 cm in front of a lens that has a focal length of 4.0 cm. Where is the image located? What are the magnification and the character of the image?

Question 42

A concave mirror with a radius of curvature of 1.0 m is illuminated by a candle located on the symmetry axis 3.0 m from the mirror. Where is the image of the candle?

Question 43

A soda straw is stuck into water at an angle of 36° to the vertical. Looking straight down, what does the angle of the submerged portion of the straw to the vertical appear to be?