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Oil floating on water looks coloured due to interference of light. What should be the order of magnitude of the thickness of oil layer in order that this effect may be observed?

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When white light is incident normally on an oil film of thickness 10-4 cm and refractive index 1.4 then the wavelength which will not be seen in the reflected system of light is
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Imperfections in optical lenses can be observed with the help of
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Two light rays having the same wavelength λ in vacuum are in phase initially. Then, the first ray travels a path L1 through a medium of refractive index n1 while the second ray travels a path of length L2 through a medium of refractive index n2. The two waves are then combined to produce interference. The phase difference between the two waves is
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Two coherent sources of intensity ratio β interfere, then the value of Imax-IminImax+Imin is 
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In a double slit experiment to find the separation between slits by displacement method, the separations of images of slits were found to be 16 mm and 9 mm respectively. The actual separation between slits will be
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A double slit experiment is performed with light of wavelength 500 nm. A thin film of thickness 2 mm and refractive index 1.5 is introduced in the path of the upper beam. The location of the central maximum will
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To observe diffraction, the size of the obstacle 

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In Fraunhofer diffraction from a single slit, wave front incident on the slit is