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When a proton is accelerated through 1 V, then it kinetic energy will be 1 V.

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Important Questions on Wave Optics and Interference

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Discuss Huygens' principle. Prove the laws of reflection of light using this principle.
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What is the geometrical shape of the wavefront for light emerging out of a convex lens when a point-source is placed at the focus of the lens?
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On a hot summer night, the refractive index of air is the smallest near the ground and increases with a height from the ground. When a light beam is directed horizontally, the Huygens' principle leads us to conclude that as it travels, the light beam,

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Which of the following generates a plane wave front?
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Figure shows plane waves refracted from air to water using Huygen's principle and a, b, c, d and e are lengths on the diagram. The refractive index of air with respect to water is in the ratio:
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A wavefront is represented by the plane y=3-x. The propagation of wave takes place at
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A wave front is represented by the plane y=3-x. The propagation of wave takes place at
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Which of the following relates to photons both as wave motion and as a stream of particles? 
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Statement (S): Using Huygen's eye-piece measurements can be taken but are not correct.

Reason (R): The cross wires, scale and final image are not magnified proportionately because the image of the objects is magnified by two lenses, whereas the cross wire scale is magnified by one lens only.

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When a ray of light is incident normally on a surface, then
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Spherical wavefronts shown in figure, strike a plane mirror. Reflected wavefronts will be as shown in
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The figure shows a surface XY separating two transparent media, medium-I and medium-II. The lines ab and cd represents wave fronts of a light wave travelling in medium-I and incident on XY. The lines ef and gh represent wave fronts of light wave in medium-II after refraction the


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The phase of the light wave at c, d, e and f are ϕc, ϕd, ϕe, ϕf respectively. It is given that ϕcϕf , then
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Figure, shows wave fronts in still water, moving in the direction of the arrow towards the interface PQ between a shallow region and a deep (denser) region. Which of the lines shown may represent one of the wave fronts in the deep region?

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The shape of the wavefront of a wave with respect to the wave motion is
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Wave front of a wave has direction with wave motion
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Two particles A and B are in motion. If the wavelength associated with particle A is 8×10-7m, Calculate the wavelength associated with particle B if its momentum is 1/4 times A.
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The wave theory of light, in its original form, was first postulated by :
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In which of the following cases we obtain a plane wavefront ?
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A monochromatic plane wave of speed c and wavelength λ  is diffracted at a small aperture. The diagram illustrates successive wavefronts (vibrating in the same phase). After what time will some portion of the wavefront XY reach P?

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