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Human Eye And Colorful World Assertion Reason Class 10 Science
A. Both assertion and reason are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
B. Both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
C. Assertion is true but reason is false.
D. Assertion is false and reason is true.
Question. Assertion (A): The twinkling of stars is due to the fact that refractive index of the earth’s atmosphere fluctuates.
Reason (R): In cold countries, the phenomenon of looming (i.e ship appears in the sky) takes place, because refractive index of air decreases with height.
Answer: B
Question. Assertion(A): A prism can split the incident white light into bands of different colours.
Reason(R): The different colours of light bend through different angles with respect to the incident rays.
Answer: A
Question. Assertion(A): Rainbow is formed in the sky due to the dispersion of sunlight by water droplets.
Reason(R): Light of shorter wavelength is scattered much more than the light of longer wavelength.
Answer: B
Question. Assertion(A): In case of rainbow, light at the inner surface of the water drop gets internally reflected.
Reason(R): The angle between the refracted ray and normal to the drop surface is greater than the critical angle.
Answer: A
Question. Assertion: Red light travels faster in glass than green light.
Reason: The refractive index of glass is less for green light.
Answer: C
Question. Assertion(A): The red light bends the least while the violet bends the most.
Reason(R): Red light has short wavelength whereas violet has long wavelength.
Answer: C
Question. Assertion: The colour of the scattered light does not depend on the size of the scattering particles.
Reason: Red light is used as a danger signal because it can travel longer distances through rain and fog.
Answer: C
Question. Assertion(A): The Sun appears flattened at sunrise and sunset.
Reason (R): The apparent flattering of the Sun’s disc at sunrise and sunset is due to atmospheric refraction.
Answer: A
Question. Assertion: The sky appears dark in outer space.
Reason : Scattering does not occur in outer space as there is no atmosphere.
Answer: A
Very Short Answers
Question. What is the colour of scattered sunlight when the size of the scattering particles is relatively large?
Answer: When white sunlight falls on relatively larger particles (like dust particles, etc.) present in the atmosphere, it is scattered as such so the scattered light appears blue.
Question. List the factors on which the angle of deviation through a prism depend?
Answer: Angle of deviation through a prism depends
• on the –A called – of prism;
• on the – of incidence;
• on the optical density of the material of the prism.
Question. Explain why the planets do not twinkle.
Answer: The planets are much closer to the earth. A planet can be considered as a collection of a large number of point-sized sources of light. So that total variation in the amount of light entering our eye from all the individual point-sized sources will average out to zero thereby nullifying the twinkling effect.
Question. Give an example of a phenomenon where Tyndall effect can be observed.
Answer: The scattering of light by particles of colloid or suspension in its path is called Tyndall effect. When sunlight passes through the canopy of a dense forest, the tiny water droplets in the mist scatter sunlight.
Question. Which phenomenon is responsible for making the path of light visible?
Answer: Tyndall effect is responsible for making the path of light visible.
Question. State one role of ciliary muscles in the human eye.
Answer: The focal length of eye-lens can be changed by changing its shape by the action of ciliary muscles.
Question. What happens to the image distance in the eye when we increase the distance of an object from the eye?
Answer: The image distance remains unchanged. As the distance of the object increases, the focal length of eye lens is adjusted by the ciliary muscles so that the image is always formed at the retina.
Question. State one function of iris in human eye.
Answer: Function of iris. Iris regulates the amount of light entering the eye by adjusting the size of the pupil.
Question. What will be the colour of the sky when it is observed from a place in the absence of any atmosphere?
Answer: The colour of sky will be black when it is observed from a place where atmosphere is absent as scattering of light does not take place when there is no atmosphere.
Question. The sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut. State its reason.
Answer: There is no atmosphere containing air in space to scatter sunlight. As there is no scattering of light in space, the scattered light does not reach the eyes and the sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut in outer space.
Question : What is meant by power of accommodation of the eye ?
Answer: The power of accommodation of the eye is the maximum variation of its power for focusing on near and far (distant) objects.
Question : A person with a myopic eye cannot see objects beyond 1.2 m distinctly. What should be the type of the corrective lens used to restore proper vision ?
Answer: Concave lens.
Question : What is the far point and near point of the human eye with normal vision ?
Answer: For a human eye with normal vision the far point is at infinity and near point is 25 cm from the eye.
Question : A student has difficulty reading the blackboard while sitting in the last row. What could be the defect the child is suffering from ? How can it be corrected?
Answer: The child is suffering from myopia. The child should use concave lens of suitable focal length.
Question : A student has difficulty reading the blackboard while sitting in the front row. What could be the defect the child is suffering from ? How can it be corrected?
Answer: The child is suffering from hypermetropia. The child should use convex lens of suitable focal length.
Short Answers
Question. A very thin narrow beam of white light is made incident on one face of rectangular glass slab and one face of the combination of two prisms, one up and one down in contact. Comment on the nature of the behaviour of the emergent beam in the above two cases.
Answer: Case 1: The emergent beam refracted through a rectangular glass slab emerges parallel to the incident ray and is shifted sideward slightly. No dispersion occurs.
Case 2: The emergent beam from the second inverted identical prism is again white light and emerges parallel to the incident beam and shifted sideward slightly. Overall no dispersion occurs due to the combination of two prisms placed inverted to each other.
Thus emergent ray in both the cases emerges from the opposite parallel faces and is parallel to the incident ray.
Question. The far point of a myopic person is 80 cm in front of the eye. What is the nature and power of the lens required to correct the problem?
Answer: The far point of this myopic person is 80 cm. (This means that this person can see a distant object kept at infinity clearly if the image of this object is formed at his far point.)
u = ∞, v = –80 cm, f = ?
Using Lens formula
1/v - 1/u = 1/f ∴ 1/-18 - 1/∞ = 1/f
⇒ 1/f = -1/80 - 0 = -1/80 ∴ f = –80 cm = –0.8 m
Negative sign indicates the lens is concave.
Power, P = 1/f = 1/- 0.8 m = –1.25 ∴ P = –1.25 D
A concave lens of power –1.25 D is required to correct the problem.
Question. What eye defect is myopia? Describe with a neat diagram how this defect of vision can be corrected by using a suitable lens.
Answer: Myopia is the defect of the eye vision due to which a person can see the near objects clearly, but he cannot see the far objects clearly.
Causes of myopia. Myopia is caused
— due to the elongation of the eye ball.
— due to decrease in the focal length of the eye lens. The eye lens becomes more convergent.
Myopia can be corrected by using a concave lens of suitable focal length in the spectacles of such a person.
Question. What is a spectrum? Why do different coloured rays deviate differently on passing through a glass prism?
Answer: Meaning of spectrum. When a beam of white light is passed through a prism, a band of seven colours is formed on a white screen. This is called spectrum of white light.
The dispersion of white light occurs because the angle of refraction or angle of bending of different components of the white light is different when passing through the glass prism. When white light consisting of seven colours falls on a prism, each colour is refracted or deviated by a different angle, with the result that the seven coloured band, i.e., spectrum is formed.
Question. What eye defect is hypermetropia? Describe with a ray diagram how this defect of vision can be corrected by using an appropriate lens.
Answer: Long sightedness is hypermetropia. Due to this defect, a person is not able to see the nearby objects clearly but can see the distant objects clearly.
Causes of long-sightedness. It is caused due to the following reasons:
— Normal increase in the focal length of the eye lens. The lens becomes less convergent.
— Shortening of the eyeball size.
Long sightedness can be corrected by using a convex lens of suitable focal length in the spectacles of such a person.
When a convex lens of suitable power is placed in front of the hypermetropic eye then the diverging rays of light coming from the nearby object are first converged by this convex lens. Due to this, the convex lens forms a virtual image of the nearby object at a point near to the hypermetropic eye. Then the hypermetropic eye can easily focus the image formed by convex lens on the retina.
Question. What is the colour of the clear sky during day-time? Give reason for it.
Answer: During day time the colour of the sky is blue.
Reason: The molecules of air and other fine particles in the atmosphere have a size smaller than the wavelength of visible light. So these particles scatter more effectively the light rays of shorter wavelength at the blue end than light of longer wavelengths at the red end. When the scattered blue light enters our eyes, it gives us the feeling of a blue sky.
Question. State the difference in colours of the Sun observed during sunrise/sunset and noon. Give explanation for each.
Answer: The Sun and surrounding sky appear red at sunrise and at sunset because at this time the Sun is near the horizon and sunlight has to travel the greatest distance through the atmosphere to reach us. Thus most of the blue colour present in sunlight has been scattered out and away from our line of sight, leaving behind mainly red colour in the direct sunlight beam that reaches our eyes. When the Sun is overhead (as at noon) then the light coming from the Sun has to travel a relatively shorter distance through the atmosphere to reach us. Thus only a little of blue colour of the white light is scattered. Since the light coming from the overhead Sun has almost all its component colours in the right proportion,
therefore the Sun in the sky overhead appears white.
Question. When and where do we see a rainbow? How is a rainbow formed? Draw a labelled diagram to illustrate the formation of a rainbow.
Answer: Rainbow is caused by dispersion of sunlight by tiny water droplets present in the atmosphere. The water droplets act like small prisms. They refract the incident sunlight and then reflect it internally and finally refract it again when it comes out of the rain-drop. A rainbow is always formed in the direction opposite to that of the Sun.
Question. Explain giving reason why the sky appears blue to an observer from the surface of the earth? What will the colour of the sky be for an astronaut staying in the international space station orbiting the earth?
Answer: Sky appears blue. The molecules of air and other fine particles in the atmosphere have a size smaller than the wavelength of visible light. So these particles scatter more effectively the light rays of shorter wavelength at the blue end than light of longer wavelengths at the red end. When the scattered blue light enters our eyes, it gives us the feeling of a blue sky. Colour of sky to an astronaut. There is no atmosphere containing air in space to scatter sunlight. As there is no scattering of light in space, the scattered light does not reach the eyes and the sky appears dark instead of blue to an astronaut in outer space.
Question. Explain with help of a labelled diagram, the cause of twinkling of stars.
Answer: Twinkling of Stars. The twinkling of a star is due to atmospheric refraction of star light. The atmospheric refraction occurs in a medium of gradually changing refractive index. Since the atmosphere bends star light towards the normal, the apparent position of the star is slightly different from the actual position.
This apparent position of the star is not stationary, but keeps on changing slightly as the physical conditions of the earth’s atmosphere are not stationary.
Since the stars are very distant, they act as point-sized sources of light. As the path of rays of light coming from the star goes on varying slightly, the apparent position of the star fluctuates and the amount of light entering the eye flickers—the star sometimes appears brighter and at other times appears fainter, which is the twinkling effect.
Question : What happens to the image distance in the eye when we increase the distance of an object from the eye ?
Answer: The eye lens of a normal eye forms the images of objects at various distances on the same retina. Therefore, the image distance in the eye remains the same.
Question : Why do stars twinkle?
Answer: Stars appear to twinkle due to atmospheric refraction. The light of star after the entry of light in earth’s atmosphere undergoes refraction continuously till it reaches the surface of the earth. Stars are far away. So, they are the point source of light. As the path of light coming from stars keep changing, thus the apparent position of stars keep changing and amount of light from stars entering the eye keeps twinkling. Due to which a star sometimes appear bright and sometimes dim, which is the effect of twinkling.
Question : Explain why the planets do not twinkle?
Answer: The planets are much nearer to the earth than stars and because of this they can be considered as large source of light. If a planet is considered to be a collection of a very large number of point sources of light, then the average value of change in the amount of light entering the eye from all point size light sources is zero. Due to this the effect of twinkling is nullified.
Question : Why does the sun appear reddish early in the morning?
Answer: The light coming from the sun passes through various denser layers of air in the earth’s atmosphere before reaching our eyes near the horizon. Most of the part of blue
light and light of small wavelength gets scattered by dust particles near the horizon. So, the light reaching our eyes is of large wavelength. Due to this the sun appears reddish at the time of sunrise and sunset.
Question : Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?
Answer: As an astronaut moves away from the atmosphere of earth, the atmosphere becomes thin. Due to the absence of molecules (or dust particles) in air, the scattering of light does not take place. Thus, sky appears dark in the absence of scattering.
Long Answers
Question. List three common refractive defects of vision. Suggest the way of correcting these defects.
Answer: The three defects of vision:
(i) Myopia. Myopia is the defect of the eye vision due to which a person can see the near objects clearly, but he can not see the far objects clearly.
Causes of myopia. Myopia is caused due to the elongation of the eye ball and due to decrease in the focal length of the eye lens. The eye lens becomes more convergent.
Correction. Myopia can be corrected by using a concave lens of suitable focal length in the spectacles of such a person.
(ii) Long-sightedness or hypermetropia. Due to this defect, a person is not able to see the nearby objects clearly but can see the distant objects clearly.
Causes of hypermetropia. It is caused due to the following reasons:
• Normal increase in the focal length of the eye lens. The lens becomes less convergent.
• Shortening of the eyeball size.
Correction. Long sightedness can be corrected by using a convex lens of suitable focal length in the spectacles of such a person.
When a convex lens of suitable power is placed in front of the hypermetropic eye then the diverging rays of light coming from the nearby object are first converged by this convex lens. Due to this, the convex lens forms a virtual image of the nearby object at a point near to the hypermetropic eye. Then the hypermetropic eye can easily focus the image formed by convex lens on the retina.
(iii) Presbyopia. The power of accommodation of the eye decreases with ageing. It occurs due to the gradual weakening of the ciliary muscles and decreasing flexibility of the crystalline lens. The near point of the eye increases with age. It may reach even 2 metres. This defect is called presbyopia.
Causes of presbyopia. It is mainly caused due to the weakening of the ciliary muscles of the eyes.
Such a person may suffer from myopia and hypermetropia.
Correction. This defect is then corrected by using bifocal lenses of suitable focal lengths. The upper part of the lens is a concave lens for correcting myopia to see the distant objects clearly, while the lower part of the lens has a convex lens to correct the hypermetropia to see the nearby objects clearly.
Question. Nalin and his four friends were sitting on his roof on a pleasant day. All of them were enjoying Ludo. Suddenly Ayush saw seven colours in the sky. He jumped with joy and shouted “Look, there is an Indradhanush in the sky”. Then Nalin explained all about the rainbow. After that every one clapped for him.
(a) What information is given by Nalin to his friends about a rainbow?
(b) Is it possible to obtain rainbow phenomenon on the earth?
(c) Which term is used for the seven colours of the rainbow?
(d) Which colour appears at the top and at the bottom of the rainbow?
Answer: (a) Rainbow is a natural phenomenon in which an arch of seven colours visible in the sky is produced by the dispersion of white sunlight by raindrops in the atmosphere. Each raindrop acts as a tiny glass prism splitting the sunlight into seven colours.
(b) Yes, in daily life, when white light of the Sun is passed through a glass prism, it splits into seven colours.
(c) The band of seven colours obtained by the splitting of white light is called spectrum.
(d) The red colour appears at the top of the rainbow whereas violet colour appears at its bottom.
Question. (a) List the parts of the human eye that control the amount of light entering into it. Explain how they perform this function.
(b) Write the function of retina in human eye.
Answer: (a) The iris and pupil control the amount of light entering the eyes. If the amount of light received by the eye is large (as during the day time), then the iris contracts the pupil (makes the pupil small) and reduces the amount of light entering the eye.
If the amount of light received by the eye is small (as in a dark room or during night), the iris expands the pupil (makes the pupil large) so that more light may enter the eyes.
(b) The screen on which the image is formed in the eye is called retina. Retina is a delicate membrane having a large number of light sensitive cells called ‘rods’ and ‘cones’ which respond to the ‘intensity of light’ and ‘colours of object’ respectively.
Question : Draw the sketch diagram of human eye. And explain about the different parts of eye.
Answer:
The human eye is the most sensitive part of the human body. By closing our eyes, we can sense some objects with their smell, taste, sound they make or by touching them but we cannot identify the colour without opening our eyes.
Parts of human eyes: -
•Cornea- the outermost part of the eye, light enters from this part.
• Eye lens- it is a convex lens its curvature is controlled by ciliary muscles.
•Iris- The part of the eye which controls the size of the pupil.
Pupil- The aperture of the pupil varies with the help of the iris. Pupil regulates and controls the amount of light entering the eye.
•Retina- The light-sensitive screen, where the image of any object is formed
Question : How can we see objects?
Answer: - First light enters in our eye from cornea. If the light is very bright, the iris contracts the
pupil to allow less light to enter the eye and in dim light the iris expends pupil to allow
more light in the eye. This light incident on the eye lens and image is formed at the
retina. The optic nerves transmit electrical impulses to the brain and we get
information about the object.
Question : What do you mean by the defect hypermetropia in human eye, how it can be corrected? Draw suitable ray diagrams.
Answer: -
(i) a person can’t see – nearby objects clearly a person can see –distant objects clearly
(ii) Defect arises due to -Focal length of eye lens increased (power decreased) - Shortening of eyeball
(iii) Defect correction by Using a convex lens of suitable power
Question : What do you mean by the defect myopia in human eye, how it can be corrected? Draw suitable ray diagrams.
(i) a person can see – nearby objects clearly a person can’t see –distant objects clearly
(ii) Defect arises due to -Focal length of eye lens decreased (power increased) -Elongation of eyeball
(iii) Defect correction by Using a concave lens of suitable power
Question : What is dispersion of light? Explain it with a suitable diagram. Draw the necessary diagram, and show the recombination of light by using glass prisms.
Answer: - Dispersion of light by a glass prism: - The splitting of light into its component colours is called dispersion of light. A prism can split the incident white light into a band of colours. The sequence of colours is Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red.
We remember it with “VIBGYOR”.
- The band of the coloured components of a light beam is called its spectrum.
- Red light bends least and violet most.
Recombination of spectrum: - Isaac Newton was the first to use a glass prism to obtain the spectrum of sunlight. By using one prism light splits in seven colours and by using another prism in inverted position with respect to the first prism, we found a beam of white light emerging from the other side of the second prism. So here first prism is splitting second is recombining.
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