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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 midpoint of the slit is:

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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The two slits in Young's experiment have widths in a ratio 25:1. The ratio of light intensity at the maxima and minima in the interference pattern is 9:x. Find x.
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The width of central fringe of a diffraction pattern is 5.8 mm on a screen at a distance of 2 m. If light source has wavelength 5800 A, then the slit width is,
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The interference pattern shifts downward by 4 mm when a polystyrene sheet of refractive index 1.8 is placed in front of the lower slit. If wavelength used is λ=683 nm, the separation between slits is 2 mm and separation between slits and screen is 10 cm, then thickness of sheet is,
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The reflected ray is completely polarized when a ray is incident at a medium of refractive index 1.73, then the value of angle of refraction ?
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If the intensity of central fringe in interference pattern is 0.01 W m-2, then find intensity at a point having path difference λ3 on a screen from the centre (in W m-2).
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In a diffraction pattern due to a single slit of width a the first minimum is observed at an angle 30o when light of wavelength 5000  is incident on the slit. The first secondary maximum is observed at an angle of:
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The intensity at the maximum in a Young’s double- slit experiment is I0. Distance between two slits is d=5λ, where λ is the wavelength of light used in the experiment. What will be the intensity in front of one of the slits on the screen placed at a distance D=10 d?
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The interference pattern is obtained with two coherent light sources of intensity ratio n. In the interference pattern, the ratio $\frac{I_{\max }-I_{\min }}{I_{\max }+I_{\min }}$ will be