Physics

The Human Eye and The Colourful World

Question:

What is meant by power of accommodation of the eye?

Answer:

The power Of accommodation of the eye is the ability of the eye to observe the distinct objects clearly which are situated at a large distance from the eye. The ciliary muscles are responsible to change the focal length Of the eye lens. The value of the power of accommodation Of the normal human eye is (d = 25 cm) = 100/f = 100/d = 100/25 = 4 dioptres. The value of power of accommodation Of human eye is about 4D

 

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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.

How does the eye adjust its focal length?

Q 5.

What is short sight? How can it be corrected?

Q 6.

How is the terrestrial telescope different from the astronomical telescope?

Q 7.

Why do stars twinkle?

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.

What is dispersion?

Q 11.

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

Q 12.

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 13.

Explain clearly the working of a human eye?

Q 14.

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

Q 15.

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

Q 16.

Define the term “accommodation of the eye”.

Q 17.

What is meant by power of accommodation of the eye?

Q 18.

Why is the colour of the clear sky blue?

Q 19.

What is optic axis?

Q 20.

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

Q 21.

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

Q 22.

Explain why the planets do not twinkle ?

Q 23.

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

Q 24.

Why does the sun appear reddish early in the morning?

Q 25.

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 26.

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 27.

Explain presbyopia and astigmatism.

Q 28.

What is phorias?

Q 29.

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 30.

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 31.

Why is the colour of the clear sky blue?

Q 32.

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 33.

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

Q 34.

What is visual axis?

Q 35.

What are coaxial lenses and where are they used?

Q 36.

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 37.

Define “least distance of distinct vision”.

Q 38.

How do we see colours?

Q 39.

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 40.

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 41.

What is Astigmatism?

Q 42.

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

Q 43.

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

Q 44.

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 45.

What is spectrum?

Q 46.

Why is eye lens of telescope smaller than objective lens?

Q 47.

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

Q 48.

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 49.

Explain the angle of prism.

Q 50.

Which part of human eye helps in the perception of colours?