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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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In Young's double-slit experiment, in an interference pattern, the second minimum is observed exactly in front of one slit. The distance between the slits is d and the distance between source and screen is D. The wavelength of the light source used is
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In a double-slit experiment, the two slits are 1 mm apart and the screen is placed 1 m away. A monochromatic light of wavelength 500 nm is used. What will be the width of each slit for obtaining ten maxima of double-slit within the central maxima of a single-slit pattern?
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In a Young's double slit experiment, slits are separated by 0.5 mm, and the screen is placed 150 cm away. A beam of light consisting of two wavelengths, 650 nm and 520 nm, is used to obtain interference fringes on the screen. The least distance from the common central maximum to the point where the bright fringes due to both the wavelengths coincide is:
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In a Young's double slit experiment, the slit separation d is 0.3 mm and the screen distance D is 1 m. A parallel beam of light of wavelength 600 nm is incident on the slits at angle α as shown in figure. On the screen, the point O is equidistant from the slits and distance PO is 11.0 mm. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

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A light source, which emits two wavelengths λ1=400 nm and λ2=600 nm , is used in a Young's double slit experiment. If recorded fringe widths for λ1 and λ2 are β1 and β2 and the number of fringes for them within a distance y on one side of the central maximum are m1 and m2 , respectively, then
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Young's double slit experiment is first performed in air and then in a medium other than air. It is found that 8th bright fringe in the medium lies where 5th dark fringe lies in air. The refractive index of the medium is nearly
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Electrons accelerated from rest by an electrostatic potential are collimated and sent through a Young's double slit experiment. The fringe width is ω. If the accelerating potential is doubled, then the width is now close to:
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In a double – slit experiment, at a certain point on the screen the path difference between the two interfering waves is 18th of a wavelength. The ratio of the intensity of light at that point to that at the center of a bright fringe is:
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Consider a Young's double slit experiment as shown in figure. What should be the slit separation d in terms of wavelength λ such that the first minima occurs directly in front of the slit (S1) ?

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In a Young's double slit experiment slit separation 0.1 mm, one observes a bright fringe at angle 140 rad by using light of wavelength λ1. When the light of wavelength λ2 is used a bright fringe is seen at the same angle in the same set up. Given that λ1 and λ2 are in visible range 380 nm to 740 nm, their values are:
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Using monochromatic light of wavelength λ , an experimentalist sets up the Young's double slit experiment in three ways as shown.
If she observes that y = β , the wavelength of light used is :

 

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A double slit setup is shown in the figure. One of the slits is in medium 2 of refractive index n2. The other slit is at the interface of this medium with another medium 1 of refractive index n1n2. The line joining the slits is perpendicular to the interface and the distance between the slits is d. The slit widths are much smaller than d. A monochromatic parallel beam of light is incident on the slits from medium 1. A detector is placed in medium 2 at a large distance from the slits, and at an angle θ from the line joining them, so that θ equals the angle of refraction of the beam. Consider two approximately parallel rays from the slits received by the detector.

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Which of the following statement(s) is(are) correct?

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In Young’s double-slit experiment, the distance between the two identical slits is 6.1 times larger than the slit width. Then the number of intensity maxima observed within the central maximum of the single-slit diffraction pattern is :
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In the Young's double slit experiment using a monochromatic light of wavelength λ , the path difference ( in terms of an integer n ) corresponding to any point having half the peak intensity is
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Light of wavelength λ is incident on a single slit of width a and the distance between slit and screen D. In diffraction pattern, if slit width is equal to the width of the central maximum then D is equal to
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In Young's double slit experiment using monochromatic light of wavelength λ, the intensity of light at a point on the screen where path different is λ is K units. The intensity of light at a point where path difference is λ3 is
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In a Young’s double slit experiment, the separation between the slits is 0.15 mm . In the experiment, a source of light of wavelength 589 nm is used and the interference pattern is observed on a screen kept 1.5 m away. The separation between the successive bright fringes on the screen is:
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The distance between two coherent sources is 1 mm. The screen is placed at a distance of 1 m from the sources. If the distance of the third bright fringe is 1.2 mm from the central fringe, the wavelength of light used is
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In Young's double slit experiment, the two slits are illuminated by light of wavelength 5890  and the angular distance between the fringes obtained on the screen is 0.2o. If the whole apparatus is immersed in water then the angular fringe width will be, if the refractive index of water is 43.
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While conducting the Young's double slit experiment, a student replaced the two slits with a large opaque plate in the x-y plane containing two small holes that act as two coherent point sources S1, S2 emitting light of wavelength 600 nm. The student mistakenly placed the screen parallel to the x-z plane (for z>0) at a distance D=3 m from the mid-point of S1, S2 , as shown schematically in the figure. The distance between the sources d=0.6003 mm. The origin O is at the intersection of the screen and the line joining S1, S2 . Which of the following is (are) true of the intensity pattern on the screen?