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How would the angular separation of interference fringes in Young's double slit experiment change when the distance of separation between the slits and the screen is doubled ?

Important Questions on Wave Optics and Interference

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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 7
Why is the interference pattern not detected, when two coherent sources are far apart ?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 8
No interference pattern is detected when two coherent sources are infinitely close to each other. Why ?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 1
What are the reasons to believe that light is a wave motion ?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 2
Explain and illustrate what you mean by plane wavefront.
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 3
How is the refractive index of a medium related to the velocity of light according to Huygens' Principle? What is the importance of this relation?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 4
When light waves from two coherent sources interfere, they produce darkness at some points. What becomes of the energy ?
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 5
Two tuning forks can produce interference; but two independent sources of light (like two candles) cannot produce interference - Explain.
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Bureau's Higher Secondary Physics Class 12>Chapter 14 - Wave Optics and Interference>MODEL QUESTIONS>Q 6
If a broad sources of light is used in place of the very narrow slit in the Young's experiment, how will the interference pattern be affected ? Explain.