JEE Main & Advanced Physics Ray Optics Question Bank Critical Thinking

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    A plano-convex lens when silvered in the plane side behaves like a concave mirror of focal length 30cm. However, when silvered on the convex side it behaves like a concave mirror of focal length 10 cm. Then the refractive index of its material will be                                                 [BHU 1997; UPSEAT 1995]

    A)            3.0 

    B)            2.0

    C)            2.5 

    D)            1.5

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                       Here \[\frac{1}{F}=\frac{2}{f}+\frac{1}{{{f}_{m}}}\]            Plano-convex lens silvered on plane side has \[{{f}_{m}}=\infty \].            \[\therefore \] \[\frac{1}{F}=\frac{2}{f}+\frac{1}{\infty }\Rightarrow \frac{1}{30}=\frac{2}{f}\Rightarrow f=60\,\,cm\]            Plano-convex lens silvered on convex side has \[{{f}_{m}}=\frac{R}{2}\]            \[\therefore \]\[\frac{1}{F}=\frac{2}{f}+\frac{2}{R}\Rightarrow \frac{1}{10}=\frac{2}{60}+\frac{2}{R}\Rightarrow R=30\,cm\]            Now using \[\frac{1}{f}=(\mu -1)\left( \frac{1}{R} \right)\], we get \[\mu =1.5\]


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