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Assertion: Fraunhofer diffraction occurs when all the rays passing through a narrow slit are approximately parallel to one another.

Reason: Fraunhofer diffraction pattern can be achieved by placing the screen far from the slit.

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Important Questions on Interference and Diffraction of Light

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Assertion: In Young's double-slit experiment, often both the phenomena interference and diffraction are present.

Reason: Diffraction results due to the superposition of wavelets from different points of some wavefront.

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Assertion: In the diffraction phenomenon, different maxima have different intensities.

Reason: In interference, different maxima have the same intensities.

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A light source, which emits two wavelengths λ1400 nm and λ2600 nm, is used 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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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
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The diagram below shows, two sources A and B, vibrating in phase, in the same uniform medium and producing circular wave fronts.

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Which phenomenon occurs at point P?

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Two coherent monochromatic beams of intensities I and 4I respectively are superposed. The maximum and minimum intensities in the resulting pattern are
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A fringe width of a certain interference pattern is β=0.002 cm. What is the distance of 5th dark fringe from centre?
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The diameter of the objective of a telescope is 200 cm. What is the resolving power of a telescope? (Take, the wavelength of light = 500 Ao)