Physics

The Human Eye and The Colourful World

Question:

Which phenomenon of vision is made use of in cinematography? Explain briefly how it is used.

Answer:

Persistence of vision is made use of in cinematography. It is the ability of an eye to continue to see the image of an object for a very short duration even after the removal of the object. We are able to see the movie pictures in a cinema due to the persistence of vision.
The still pictures taken by a movie camera are projected on the screen at a rate of about 24 pictures per second. Under these conditions, the image of one picture persists on the retina till the image of next picture falls on the screen and so on.
Due to this, the slightly different images of the successive pictures present on the film merge smoothly into one another and give us the feeling of moving images. Thus the principle of persistence of vision is made use of, in the motion picture projection in cinematography.

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The Human Eye and The Colourful World

Q 1.

Is the position of a star as seen by us its true position? Justify your answer.

Q 2.

Why does the sky appear dark of blue to an astronaut?

Q 3.

Why does the objective lens of an astronomical telescope have a large light gathering power?

Q 4.

What is short sight? How can it be corrected?

Q 5.

Why do stars twinkle?

Q 6.

How is the terrestrial telescope different from the astronomical telescope?

Q 7.

How does the eye adjust its focal length?

Q 8.

Give the condition required to achieve a larger magnification of a small object by a compound microscope ?

Q 9.

Why do stars twinkle?

Q 10.

A lens used as a simple magnifier gives magnification of 6. What is its focal length?

Q 11.

What is dispersion?

Q 12.

Which of the two, objective or eye-piece, of a telescope has a large aperture? Give reason for your answer.

Q 13.

How is the length of the telescope tube related to the distance between the objective and the eyepiece of the telescope? How can the magnification of the telescope be increased?

Q 14.

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?

Q 15.

Explain clearly the working of a human eye?

Q 16.

Where should an object be placed in front of a convex lens so as to use it as a simple microscope?

Q 17.

What is meant by power of accommodation of the eye?

Q 18.

Define the term “accommodation of the eye”.

Q 19.

Why is the colour of the clear sky blue?

Q 20.

A person having a myopic eye used the concave lens of focal length 50cm. What is the power of the lens?

Q 21.

Write the names of colours got from the word VIBGYOR.

Q 22.

Explain presbyopia and astigmatism.

Q 23.

Explain why the planets do not twinkle ?

Q 24.

How does the eye adjust itself to deal with light of varying intensity?

Q 25.

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?

Q 26.

A compound microscope has an objective of focal length 1.0 cm and an eyepiece of focal length 4.0 cm. If the length of the tube is 20 cm, find the magnification of the compound microscope.

Q 27.

What is optic axis?

Q 28.

When is a person said to have developed cataract in his eye? How is the vision of a person having cataract restored?

Q 29.

How will you distinguish between a compound microscope and a telescope.

Q 30.

Why does the sun appear reddish early in the morning?

Q 31.

If we need magnification of 375 from a microscope of tube length 15 cm and objective of focal length 0.5 cm, what focal length of eye-piece should we use?

Q 32.

What property of the eye is the principle of motion, pictures?

Q 33.

How will you use two identical prisms so that a narrow beam of white light incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw the diagram.

Q 34.

What is the far point and near point of the human eye with normal vision ?

Q 35.

A person needs a lens of power −5.5 dioptres for correcting his distant vision. For correcting his near vision he needs a lens of power +1.5 dioptre. What is the focal length of the lens required for correcting (i) distant vision, and (ii) near vision?

Q 36.

Draw a diagram of a simple microscope.

Q 37.

A telescope has an objective of focal length 140.0 cm and an eyepiece of focal length 5.0 cm. Find
(i) the magnification of the telescope for viewing distant objects for normal adjustment
(ii) separation between the objective lens and the eyepiece.

Q 38.

What is spectrum?

Q 39.

What is phorias?

Q 40.

What is visual axis?

Q 41.

A person needs a lens of power – 4.5 D for correction of her vision.
(a) What kind of defect in vision is she suffering from?
(b) What is the focal length of the corrective lens?
(c) What is the nature of the corrective lens?

Q 42.

Why is the colour of the clear sky blue?

Q 43.

How are we able to see nearby as well as the distant objects clearly?

Q 44.

A 52-year old near-sighted person wears eye-glass with a power of –5.5 dioptres for distance viewing. His doctor prescribes a correction of +1.5 dioptres in the near-vision section of his bi-focals. This is measured relative to the main part of the lens (i) What is the focal length of his distance-viewing part of the lens? (ii) What is the focal length of the near-vision section of the lens?

Q 45.

A student sitting at the back of the classroom cannot read clearly the letters written on the blackboard. What advice will a doctor give to her? Draw ray diagram for the correction of this defect.

Q 46.

Make a diagram to show how hypermetropia is corrected. The near point of a hypermetropic eye ¡s 1 m. What ¡s the power of a lens required to correct this defect? Assume that near point of the normal eye is 25 cm.

Q 47.

If focal length of the objective and eye-piece of a telescope are 10 cm and 4 cm respectively, what will be its magnifying power in
(i) normal adjustments,
(ii) adjustment where image of distance object is formed at D? Given D = 25 cm.

Q 48.

What are the common defects of vision that can be corrected by the use of suitable eyeglasses or spectacles?

Q 49.

A person uses convex lens spectacles. What vision defect does he have? Draw a diagram
(i) to show the defective eye
(ii) to show the correction with the lens.

Q 50.

Why is eye lens of telescope smaller than objective lens?