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While conducting the Young's double-slit experiment, a student replaced 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 (z> 0) at a distance D= 3 m from the mid-point of S1S2, 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 S1S2. Which of the following is(are) true of the intensity pattern on the screen?

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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Two coherent monochromatic point sources S1 and S2 of wavelength λ= 600 nm are placed symmetrically on either side of the center of the circle as shown. The sources are separated by a distance d= 1.8 mm. This arrangement produces interference fringes visible as alternate bright and dark spots on the circumference of the circle. The angular separation between two consecutive bright spots is θ. Which of the following options is/are correct? 

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In a Young's double slit experiment the intensity at a point where the path-difference is λ6(λ being the wavelength of the light used) is I. If I0 denotes the maximum intensity, II0 is equal 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 I1 and in the second case I2, then the ratio I1I2 is
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Statement-1: On viewing the clear blue portion of the sky through a Calcite Crystal, the intensity of transmitted light varies as the crystal is rotated.
Statement-2: The light coming from the sky is polarized due to the scattering of sunlight by particles in the atmosphere. The scattering is largest for blue light.
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Direction: The question has a paragraph followed by two statements, Statement-1 and statement-2. Of the given four alternatives after the statements, choose the one that describes the statements. A thin air film is formed by putting the convex surface of a plane-convex lens over a plane glass plate. With monochromatic light, this film gives an interference pattern due to light reflected from the top (convex) surface and the bottom (glass plate) surface of the film.

Statement-1: When light reflects from the air-glass plate interface, the reflected wave suffers a phase change of π.

Statement-2: The centre of the interference pattern is dark. 

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Two coherent point sources S1 and S2 are separated by a small distance 'd' as shown. The fringes obtained on the screen will be:

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Two beams, A and B of plane polarised light with mutually perpendicular planes of polarisation are seen through a Polaroid. From the position when the beam A has maximum intensity (and beam B has zero intensity), a rotation of Polaroid through 30° makes the two beams appear equally bright. If the initial intensities of the two beams are IA and IB respectively, then IAIB equals