
Two coherent sources and are separated by a distance four times the wavelength of the source. The sources lie along -axis whereas, a detector moves along axis. Leaving the origin and far off points, the number of points where maxima are observed is,

Important Questions on Optics





Two coherent sources of sound, and produce sound waves of the same wavelength are in phase. and are placed apart (see fig). A listener, located at , directly in front of , finds that the intensity is at a minimum when he is away from . The listener moves away from , keeping the distance from fixed. The adjacent maximum of intensity is observed when the listener is at a distance from . Then is :



In a Young's double slit experiment with light of wavelength the separation of slits is and distance of screen is such that . If the Fringe width is , the distance from point of maximum intensity to the point where intensity falls to half of the maximum intensity on either side is:



Two coherent point sources and are separated by a small distance as shown in the figure. The fringes obtained on the screen will be



Two point sources and separated by a distance emit light waves of wavelength in phase. A circular wire of radius is placed around the sources as shown in figure, then ( is the centre of the circle and )




The Young's double slit experiment is performed with blue light and green light of wavelengths and respectively. If is the distance of maxima from the central one, then


