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What is a diffraction grating?

Important Questions on Optics

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Light travels in a straight line because
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Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion A : An electron microscope can achieve better resolving power than an optical microscope.

Reason R : The de Broglie's wavelength of the electrons emitted from an electron gun is much less than wavelength of visible light.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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The speed of electrons in a scanning electron microscope is 1×107 ms-1. If the protons having the same speed are used instead of electrons, then the resolving power of scanning proton microscope will be changed by a factor of:
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Two poles are separated by a distance of 3.14 m The resolving power of human eye is 1minute of an arc. The maximum distance from which he can identify the two poles distinctly is
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Wave property of electrons implies that they will show diffraction effects. Davisson and Germer demonstrated this by diffracting electrons from crystals. The law governing the diffraction from a crystal is obtained by requiring that electron waves reflected from the planes of atoms in a crystal interfere constructively (see figure).

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In an experiment, electrons are made to pass through a narrow slit of width d comparable to their de Broglie wavelength. They are detected on a screen at a distance D from the slit.


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Which of the following graphs can be expected to represent the number of electrons N detected as a function of the detector position y ( y = 0 corresponds to the middle of the slit)?

 

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The resolving power of an electron microscope is higher than that of an optical microscope because the wavelength of electron is _____________ as/than the wavelength of visible light.
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A slit 5 cm wide when irradiated by waves of wavelength 10 mm results in the angular spread of the central maxima on either side of incident light by about
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Distance between two slits is 0.03 cm. A screen is placed at a distance of 1.5 m. Interference pattern shows that fourth bright fringe is at 1 cm from the central maximum. Wavelength of light used is
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The head lights of a jeep are 1.2 m apart. If the pupil of the eye of an observer has a diameter of 2mm and light of wavelength 5896 Å is used, what should be the maximum distance of the jeep from the observer if the two head lights are just separated?
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Two point white dots are 1 mm apart on a black paper. They are viewed by eye of pupil diameter 3 mm. Approximately, what is the maximum distance at which these dots can be resolved by the eye? [ Take wavelength of light = 500 mm ]
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The diameter of the objective lens of microscope makes an angle β at the focus of the microscope. Further, the medium between the object and the lens is an oil of refractive index n. Then the resolving power of the microscope.
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With the help of a telescope that has an objective of diameter 200 cm, it is proved that light of wavelengths of the order of 6400 coming from a star be easily resolved. Then the limit of resolution is
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Yellow light is used in a single slit diffraction experiment with slit width of 0.6 mm. If yellow light is replaced by X-rays, then the observed pattern will reveal,
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In Fraunhoffer diffraction for single slit central maxima is bright on the both side of it, maxima & minima occurs symmetrically.

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For Diffraction Maxima: a sinθ=2n+1λ2
For Diffraction Minima:  a sin θ = n λ

Light of wavelength λ  passes through a single slit of width W and forms a diffraction pattern on a viewing screen. If this light is then replaced by light of wavelength 2 λ , the original diffraction pattern is exactly reproduced if the width of the slit is changed to

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Two points monochromatic and coherent sources of light of wavelength λ  each are placed as shown in diagram. The initial phase difference between the sources is zero O. (D >> d). Mark the correct statements(s)


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If the aperture of a telescope is decreased the resolving power will
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Two spectral lines are just resolved if the central maximum of first line coincides with
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The diameter of an eye-lens is 2.5×10-3 m and the refractive index of the eye fluid is 1.44. The resolve power of the eye for light of wavelength 5000  will be
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Fresnel diffraction is produced due to light rays falling on a small obstacle. The intensity of light at a point on a screen beyond an obstacle depends on
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Two white dots are 1 mm apart on a black paper. They are viewed by the pupil of the eye of diameter 3 mm. Approximately, what is the maximum distance at which these dots can be resolved by the eye? [Take wavelength of light = 500 nm]