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The velocity of star is 10 m s-1 and frequency of emitted light is 4.5×1014 Hz. If the star is moving away, then apparent frequency will be.

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Important Questions on Wave Optics

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At what speed should a galaxy move with respect to earth so that the sodium light at 589 nm is observed at 589.6 nm?

 

 

 

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The wavelength of light coming from a star shifts towards the violet end of the spectrum. This shows that star is
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A galaxy is moving away from the earth at a speed of 286 km s-1. The shift in the wavelength of a red line at 630 nm is x×10-10 m. The value of x, to the nearest integer, is ___ .

[Take the value of the speed of the light c, as 3×108 m s-1]

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Under what conditions Doppler effect is called (i) red shift and (ii) blue shift.
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With what speed should a galaxy move outward with respect to earth so that the sodium-D line at wavelength 5890 A is observed at 5896 A?
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Define Doppler Effect in light. Explain Red shift, Blue shift. What is its importance?
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For a specific wavelength 670 nm of light coming from a galaxy moving with velocity v, the observed wavelength is 670.7 nm. The value of v is
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What is Doppler effect? Mention the two applications of Doppler effect.
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A star emitting light of wavelength 5896 Ao is moving away from the earth with a speed of 3600 km/s. The wavelength of the light observed on the earth will
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If a star emitting orange light moves away from the earth, its colour
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Write short notes on any two of the following:

(i) Diffraction.

(ii)Doppler effect

(III) Polarisation of wave

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A sound source S is moving along a straight track with speed v, and is emitting sound of frequency v0.An observer is standing at a finite distance, at the point O, from the track. The time variation of frequency heard by observer is best represented by : (to represents the instant when the distance between the source and observer is minimum)
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If a star emitting orange light moves away from the Earth, its colour will
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A galaxy moves with respect to the earth so that Sodium line of 589.0 nm is observed at 589.6 nm. The speed of the galaxy is
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Due to Doppler's effect the shift in wavelength observed is 0.1 Å for a star producing wavelength 6000 Å. Velocity of recession of the star will be
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The wavelength of Hα line in the hydrogen spectrum is found to be 6563  in the laboratory. If the velocity of the Milky way is 1.05×106 m s-1, then the wavelength of Hα line in the spectrum of Milky way will be
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Which of the following explain that all galaxies are receding from us?
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If the wavelength of light coming from a distant galaxy is found to be 0.5% more than that coming from a source on earth. Then the velocity of the galaxy will be
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A star emitting radiations of wavelength 5000  is approaching earth with a velocity of 1.5×106 ms-1 . Change in wavelength of radiations as received on the earth is
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Doppler's effect is sound in addition of relative velocity between source and observe, also depends while source and observer or both are moving. Doppler effect in light depend only on the relative velocity of source and observer. The reason of this is