Light and Optics – NDA Previous Year Questions (2020–2023)

All 37 NDA previous-year questions from Light and Optics (General Knowledge (Physics)), 2020–2023, taken from 6 papers. Practise them together in one test with the official marking and answer key, then review every answer.

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Sample questions

• NDA 2023 (I) Paper II GAT
  Arectangle ABCD is kept in front of a concave mirror of focal length with its corners A and being respectively at distances and from the mirror with AB along the…
• NDA 2023 (I) Paper II GAT
  Shown in the figure are two plane mirrors XY and YZ XY YZ joined at their edge Also shown is a light ray falling on one of the mirrors and reflected back parallel to…
• NDA 2023 (I) Paper II GAT
  In the dispersion of white light by a common glass prism which one among the following is correct a Red light deviates the most because red light has highest speed in…
• NDA 2023 (I) Paper II GAT
  Which one of the following telescopes contains only mirrors a Galilean telescope Keplerian telescope Newtonian telescope Schmidt telescope

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