Colorimetry Multiple Choice questions

 B.Sc. Second year Undergraduate degree course (CBCS Pattern)

Semester Third

Physical Chemistry (CHE-312)

Chapter – Colorimetry

Multiple Choice questions:

1. Beer’s law states that the intensity of light decreases with respect to ___________

a) Concentration

b) Distance

c) Composition

d) Volume

Answer: (a)

2. Lambert’s law states that the intensity of light decreases with respect to __________

a) Concentration

b) Distance

c) Composition

d) Volume

Answer: (b)

3. Beer Lambert’s law gives the relation between which of the following?

a) Reflected radiation and concentration

b) Scattered radiation and concentration

c) Energy absorption and concentration

d) Energy absorption and reflected radiation

Answer :( c)

4. The representation of Beer Lambert’s law is given as A = ЄCl. If ‘l’ represents distance, ‘C’ represents concentration and ‘A’ represents absorption, what does ‘Є’ represent?

a) Intensity

b) Transmittance

c) Absorptivity

d) Admittance

Answer: (c)

5. Which of the following is not a limitation of Beer Lambert’s law, which gives the relation between absorption, thickness and concentration?

a) Concentration must be lower

b) Radiation must have higher bandwidth

c) Radiation source must be monochromatic

d) Does not consider factors other than thickness and concentration that affect absorbance

Answer:  (b)

6. Which of the following is not a property or parameter of electromagnetic radiation?

a) Wavelength

b) Voltage

c) Wave number

d) Amplitude

Answer: (b)

7. In which of the following ways, absorption is related to transmittance?

a) Absorption is the logarithm of transmittance

b) Absorption is the reciprocal of transmittance

c) Absorption is the negative logarithm of transmittance

d) Absorption is a multiple of transmittance

Answer: (c)

8. Absorbance is a…….

 a) Extensive property

b) Additive property

c)  Intensive property

d) Constitutive property

Answer: (b)

9. When a beam of monochromatic radiation is passed through a transparent absorbing medium, the decrease in the intensity of radiation is directly proportional to the concentration

a) Beers Law

b) Lamberts Law

c) Lamberts Beers law

d) None of these

Answer: (c)

10. Molar absorptivity is denoted by letter

a)  Î»

b) 

c) β

d) Є

Answer: (d)

11. The absorbance is given by

a) A = Cl

b) A = Cl

c) A= ECl

d) M=Cl

Answer: (b)

12. Molar absorptivity is given by…….

a) A = Cl

b) Є= A/Cl

c) Є= E/Cl

d) M=Cl

Answer: (b)

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