Appeared in: 2025 (3 sets)
(a) (i) Draw a ray diagram of a reflecting telescope (Cassegrain) and explain the formation of image. State two important advantages that a reflecting telescope has over a refracting telescope.
(ii) In a refracting telescope, the focal length of the objective is $50$ times the focal length of the eyepiece. When the final image is formed at infinity, the length of the tube is $102 \text{ cm}$. Find the focal lengths of the two lenses.
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(b) (i) Write any two advantages of a compound microscope over a simple microscope. Draw a ray diagram for the image formation at the near point by a compound microscope and explain it.
(ii) A thin planoconcave lens with its curved face of radius of curvature $R$ is made of glass of refractive index $n_1$. It is placed coaxially in contact with a thin equiconvex lens of same radius of curvature of refractive index $n_2$. Obtain the power of the combination lens.