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Find the thickness of a soap film that gives constructive second order interference of reflected red light (λ=7000 Å). The index of refraction of the film is 1.33. Assume a parallel beam of incident light directed at 300 to the normal.

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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Two slits in Young's experiment have widths in the ratio 1 : 25. The ratio of intensity at the maxima and minima in the interference pattern, ImaxImin is:
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Consider a Young's double slit experiment as shown in figure. What should be the slit separation d in terms of wavelength λ such that the first minima occurs directly in front of the slit (S1) ?

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In a Young's double slit experiment, the slits are placed 0.320 mm apart. Light of wavelength λ=500 nm is incident on the slits. The total number of bright fringes that are observed in the angular range -30oθ30o is:
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In a Young's double slit experiment with light of wavelength λ, the separation of slits is d and distance of screen is D such that Ddλ . If the Fringe width is β , the distance from point of maximum intensity to the point where intensity falls to half of the maximum intensity on either side is:

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In Young's double-slit experiment, the intensity of light at a point on the screen where the path difference is λ is I, λ being the wavelength of light used. The intensity at a point where the path difference is λ4 will be
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The Young's double slit experiment is performed with blue light and green light of wavelengths 4360 Å and 5460 Å respectively. If X is the distance of 4th maxima from the central one, then

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In a Young's double slit experiment slit separation 0.1 mm, one observes a bright fringe at angle 140 rad by using light of wavelength λ1. When the light of wavelength λ2 is used a bright fringe is seen at the same angle in the same set up. Given that λ1 and λ2 are in visible range 380 nm to 740 nm, their values are:
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The interference pattern is obtained with two coherent light sources of intensity ratio, n. In the interference pattern, the ratio, ImaxIminImax+Imin will be
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Two light waves of intensities I1 and I2 having same frequency pass through the same medium at a time in the same direction and interfere. The sum of the minimum and maximum intensities is
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Two coherent sources produce waves of different intensities which interfere. After interference, the ratio of the maximum intensity to the minimum intensity is 16. The intensity of the waves are in the ratio:
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A parallel beam of light is incident on a tank filled with water up to a height of 61.5 mm as shown in the figure below. Ultrasonic waves of frequency 0.5 MHz are sent along the length of the water column using a transducer placed at the top, and they form longitudinal standing waves in the water. Which of the schematic plots below best describes the intensity distribution of the light as seen on the screen? Take the speed of sound in water to be 1,500 m s-1.
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In Young's double slit experiment intensity at a point is 14th of the maximum intensity. Angular position of this point is (separation between slits is d)
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The distance between two coherent sources is 1 mm. The screen is placed at a distance of 1 m from the sources. If the distance of the third bright fringe is 1.2 mm from the central fringe, the wavelength of light used is
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Two coherent point sources S1 and S2 are separated by a small distance d as shown in the figure. The fringes obtained on the screen will be

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In a double-slit experiment, the two slits are 1 mm apart and the screen is placed 1 m away. A monochromatic light of wavelength 500 nm is used. What will be the width of each slit for obtaining ten maxima of double-slit within the central maxima of a single-slit pattern?
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Electrons accelerated from rest by an electrostatic potential are collimated and sent through a Young's double slit experiment. The fringe width is ω. If the accelerating potential is doubled, then the width is now close to:
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A monochromatic light source S of wavelength 440 nm is placed slightly above a plane mirror M as shown below. Image of S in M can be used as a virtual source to produce interference fringes on the screen. The distance of source S from O is 20.0 cm and the distance of screen, from O is 100.0 cm (the figure is not to scale). If the angle θ=0.50×10-3 radians, then the width of the interference fringes observed on the screen is:
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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?
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In Young's double slit experiment, the two slits are illuminated by light of wavelength 5890  and the angular distance between the fringes obtained on the screen is 0.2o. If the whole apparatus is immersed in water then the angular fringe width will be, if the refractive index of water is 43.
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In Young's double slit experiment the separation d between the slits is 2 mm, the wavelength λ of the light used is 5896  and distance D between the screen and slits is 100 cm. It is found that the angular width of the fringes is 0.20°. To increase the fringe angular width to 0.21o (with same λ and D) the separation between the slits needs to be changed to