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Calculate the resolving power of astronomical telescope, assuming the diameter of the objective lens to be 6 cm and wavelength of light used to be 540 mm.

Important Questions on Wave Optics

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In a Young's double slit arrangement one of the slit is covered by a transparent sheet of thickness 1.8×10-5 m and refractive index of the material of the sheet is 1.6. If wavelength of light used is 600 nm, find the number of fringes shifted as a result of the introduction of the sheet.
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In Young's experiment, the source is red light of wavelength 7×10-7 m. When a thin glass plate of refractive index 1.5 at this wavelength is put in the path of one of the interfering beams, the central bright fringe shifts by 10-3 m to the position previously occupied by the 5 the  bright fringe. Find the thickness of the plate. When the source is now changed to green light of wavelength 5×10-7 m, the central fringe shifts to a position initially occupied by the 6 th bright fringe due to red light. Find the refractive index of glass for green light. Also estimate the change in fringe width due to the change in wavelength.
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A coherent parallel beam of microwaves of wavelength λ=0.5 mm  falls on Young's double slit apparatus. The separation between the slits is 1.00 mm. The intensity of microwaves in measured on a screen placed parallel to the plane of the slits at a distance of 1.0 m from it, as shown in the figure, Fig. 17.60

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(a) The incident beam falls normally on the double slit apparatus. Find the y-coordinates of all the interference minima on the screen.

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According to Newton's corpuscular theory, the speed of light is
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In Huygens' wave theory, the locus of all points in the same state of vibration is called
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The rectilinear propagation of light in a medium is due to
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At two points P and Q on screen is Young's double slit experiment, waves from slit S1 and S2 have a path-difference of 0 and λ4, respectively. The ratio of intensities at P and Q will be
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In a Young's double slit experiment, the two slits act as coherent sources of waves of equal amplitude A and wavelength λ In another experiment with the same arrangement the two slits are made to act as incoherent sources of waves of same amplitude and wavelength. If the intensity at the middle point of the screen in the first case is l1 and in the second case is I2, then the ratio I1/I2 is: