Wave Optics
Wave Optics
Wave Optics
2. In the Young's double slit experiment, for which colour the fringe width is least ?
(1) Red (2) Green (3) Blue (4) Yellow
3. In a Young's double slit experiment with sodium light, slits are 0.589 m apart. The angular separation
of the third maximum from the central maximum will be (given = 589 nm) :
(1) sin –1 (0.33 × 108 ) (2) sin –1 (0.33 × 10–6 )
(3) sin –1 (3 × 10–8 ) (4) sin –1 (3 × 10–6 )
5. In an interference experiment, third bright fringe is obtained at a point on the screen with a light of
700 nm. What should be the wavelength of the light in order to obtain 5th bright fringe at the same
point ?
(1) 500 nm (2) 630 nm (3) 750 nm (4) 420 nm
6. In the Young's double slit experiment the intensity of central maxima is observed to be I0. If one of
the slits is covered, then intensity at the central maxima will become
(1) I0 / 2 (2) I0 / 2 (3) I0 / 4 (4) I0
7. In a double slit experiment if light of wavelength 5000 Å is used then fringe width of 1 mm is obtained.
If now light of wavelength 6000 Å is used without altering the system then new fringe width will be:
(1) 1 mm (2) 0·5 mm (3) 1·2 mm (4) 1·5 mm
8. Bichromatic light of wavelength 1 = 3000 Å and 2 = 5000 Å is used in YDSE. It is found the n1
bright fringe of 1 overlap with n2 Bright fringe of 2. If D = 1 m and d = 1 mm then find distance
of overlapping point from center.
(1) 2.5 mm (2) 0.9 mm (3) 1.5 mm (4) 2 mm
9. Two identical coherent sources produces a zero order bright fringe on a screen. If is the fringe width,
then find the minimum distance between two points on either side of the bright fringe where the intensity
is half that of maximum intensity.
(1) (2) /4 (3) /2 (4) 3 /4
11. In YDSE distance between slits and screen is 1.5 m . When light of wavelength 500 nm is used then
second bright fringe is obtained on a screen at a distance of 10 mm from central bright fringe. What
will be the shift in position of second bright fringe if light of wavelength 550 nm is used.
(1) 1 mm (2) 0. mm (3) 2 mm (4) 4 mm
12. Find the maximum number of possible interference maxima for slit separation equal to 2.5 times the
wavelength in YDSE.
(1) 7 (2) 5 (3) 3 (4) 6
13. White light is used to illuminate the two slits in a Young's double slit experiment. The separation between
slits is b and the screen is at a distance d (>>b) from the slits. At a point on the screen directly infront
of one of the slits, certain wavelengths are missing. Some of these missing wavelengths are :-
(1) = b2/d (2) = 2b2/d (3) = b2/2d (4) = 2b2/3d
14. If two coherent sources are placed at a distance 3 from each other symmetric to the centre of the
circle shown in the figure, then number of maxima shown on the screen placed along the circumference
is :-
S1 S2
15. If Young's experiment is performed using two separate identical sources of light instead of using two
slits and one light source then the :-
(1) Interference fringes will be darker
(2) Interference fringes will be brighter
(3) Fringes will not be obtained
(4) Contrast between bright and dark fringes increases
16. The central fringe of the interference pattern produced by light of wavelength 6000 Å is found to shift
to the position of 4th bright fringe after a glass plate of refractive index 1.5 is introduced in front of
one slit in Young's experiment. The thickness of the glass plate will be :-
(1) 4.8 µm (2) 8.23 µm (3) 14.98 µm (4) 3.78 µm
18. In double slit experiment, the angular width of the fringes is 0.20° for the sodium light ( = 5890Å).
In order to increase the angular width of the fringes by 10%, the necessary change in the wavelength
is :
(1) Increase of 589Å (2) Decrease of 589Å
(3) Increase of 6479Å (4) Zero
19. In a Young's double slit experiment if there is no initial phase difference between the light from the
two slits, a point on the screen corresponding to the fifth minimum has path difference.
20. Young's double slit experment 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 :-
(1) 1.59 (2) 1.69 (3) 1.78 (4) 1.25
2. If the light is polarised by reflection, then the angle between reflected and refracted light is :-
(1) (2) /2 (3) 2 (4) /4
3. If light beam is incident at polarising angle (56.3°) on air-glass interface, then what is the angle of
refraction in glass ?
(1) 37.3° (2) 33.7° (3) 56.3° (4) None of the above
4. The angle of polarisation for any medium is 60° what will be the critical angle for this medium at air
interface
1 1 1 1
(1) sin (4) tan
1 1
(2) sin 3 (3) cos 3
3 3
5. When the angle of incidence on a material is 60°, the reflected light is completely polarized. The velocity
of the refracted ray inside the material is (in ms–1 ) :
3
(1) 3 × 108 (2) × 108 (3) 3 × 10
8
(4) 0.5 × 108
2
6. A polaroid is placed at 45° to an incoming light of intensity I0. Now the intensity of light passing through
polaroid after polarisation would be:
(1) I0 (2) I0/2 (3) I0/4 (4) Zero
7. Two Nicols are oriented with their principal planes making an angle of 60°. The percentage of incident
unpolarized light which passes through the system is :
(1) 50% (2) 100% (3) 12.5% (4) 37.5%
8. When light ray incident at 53° on a medium from air then reflected and refracted rays become
perpendicular to each other. Then find critical angle for the medium.
4 1 3 1 5 1 3
(2) sin (3) sin (4) sin
1
(1) sin
3 4 3 5
1 4 1 3
(1) 53° (2) 37° (3) sin (4) sin
3 4
10. Unpolarised light of intensity I0 is made to incident on a system of two crossed Polaroids. Now a third
Polaroid is placed between those two Polaroids such that it's transmission axis makes 30° angle with
that of first one , then find the finally transmitted intensity.
2I 0 3I 0 I0 3I 0
(1) (2) (3) (4)
32 32 32 16
11. The ratio of resolving powers of an optical microscope for two wavelengths 1 = 4000 Å and
2 = 6000 Å is :-
(1) 9 : 4 (2) 3 : 2 (3) 16 : 81 (4) 8 : 27
12. A beam of light of = 600 nm from a distant source falls on a single slit 1 mm wide and the resulting
diffraction pattern is observed on a screen 2 m away. The distance between first dark fringes on either
side of the central bright fringe is :-
(1) 1.2 cm (2) 1.2 mm (3) 2.4 cm (4) 2.4 mm
13. At the first minimum adjacent to the central maximum of a single-slit diffraction pattern the phase
difference between the Huygen's wavelet from the edge of the slit and the wavelet from the mid point
of the slit is :-
14. In a diffraction pattern due to a single slit of width 'a', the first minimum is observed at an angle 30°
when light of wavelength 5000 Å is incident on the slit. The first secondary maximum is observed
at an angle of :
1 2 1 3
(1) sin–1 4 (2) sin–1 3 (3) sin–1 2 (4) sin–1 4
15. If a is equal to 100 . What we will get at angular position 30°, if screen distance is x.
(1) 100 th dark (2) 50th bright (3) 50th dark (4) 25th dark
16. If central width is 5 mm, of light is 500 nm. What is the slit width if screen is at a distance of 50 cm.
(1) 100 m (2) .01 m (3) 0.1 m (4) 2 m
18. At a given position in single slit diffraction pattern for = 4000Å we are getting first secondary maxima.
Find the wavelength of light for which we will get first minima at the same place.
8000
(1) 3000 Å (2) 6000 Å (3) Å (4) 5000 Å
3
19. Light of = 560 nm passes through a pinhole of diameter 0.20 mm and fall on a wall at a distance
of 2.0 m. What will be the radius of airy disc?
(1) 6.83 mm (2) 6.72 mm (3) 13.44 mm (4) 13.66 mm
20. The aperture of telescope is 5 cm, distance between moon and earth is 4 × 105 km. Find the minimum
separation between the object on the surface of moon which can be resolved is, if = 5000Å
(1) 4.88 km (2) 2.44 km (3) 1.22 km (4) 1 km
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