Analytical Treatment of Interference Bands

Author:Umakant Kondapure, Collin Fernandes, Nipun Bhatia, Vikram Bathula & Ketki Deshpande
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A thin plastic sheet of refractive index 1.6 is used to cover one of the slits of a double-slit arrangement. The central point on the screen is now occupied by what would have been the 7 bright fringe before the plastic was used. If the wavelength of light is 600 nm, what is the thickness (in μm) of the plastic? 

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A thin mica sheet of thickness 2×10-6 m and refractive index (μ=1.5) is introduced in the path of the first wave. The wavelength of the wave used is 5000 A. The central bright maximum will shift

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Two interfering waves are arriving at a point on a screen with a path difference of 120λ. The path difference is 72μm. The wavelength of light is _____. Is the point dark or bright? 

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The optical path difference between the two identical waves arriving at a point is 0.05 cm. If the wavelength of light used is 5000 A, then the number of dark fringes passing through that point will be

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In Young's double-slit experiment, two wavelengths λ1=780 nm and λ2=520 nm are used to obtain interference fringes. If the nth bright band due to λ1 coincides with (n+1)th bright band due to λ2, then the value of n is 

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In Young's double-slit experiment, the slits are 2 mm apart and are illuminated by photons of two wavelengths λ1=12000 A and λ1=10000 A. At what minimum distance from the common central bright fringe on the screen 2 m from the slit will a bright fringe from one interference pattern coincide with a bright fringe from the other? 

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In Young's double-slit experiment, slits are separated by 0.5 mm and the screen is placed 150 cm away. A beam of light consisting of two wavelengths 650 nm and 520 nm, is used to obtain interference fringes on the screen. The least distance from the bright fringes due to both the wavelengths coincide is

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The two slits are 1 mm apart from each other and illuminated with a light of wavelength 5×10-7 m. If the distance of the screen is 1 m from the slits, then the distance between the third dark fringe and the fifth bright fringe is

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In the double-slit experiment, the angular width of the fringes is 0.20° for the sodium light (λ=5890 A). In order to increase the angular width of the fringes by 10 %, the necessary change in the wavelength is 

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In Young's experiment, two coherent sources are placed 0.90 mm apart and the fringes are observed one metre away. If it produces the second dark fringe at a distance of 1 mm from the central fringe, the wavelength of monochromatic light used would be

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The maximum intensity in Young's double slit experiment is I0. Distance between the slits is d=2λ, where λ is the wavelength of monochromatic light used in experiment. What will be the intensity of light in front of one of the slits on a screen at a distance D=6 d ?

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In a Young's double slit experimental arrangement shown here, if a mica sheet of thickness t and refractive index $\mu$ is placed in front of the slit $\mathrm{S}_{1},$ then the path difference S1P-S2P

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In Young's double-slit experiment, an interference pattern is obtained on a screen by a light of wavelength 6000 Å coming from the coherent sources $\mathrm{S}_{1}$ and $\mathrm{S}_{2}$. At certain point $P$ on the screen, third dark fringe is formed. Then the path difference $S_{1} P-S_{2} P$ in microns is

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Two slits separated by a distance of 1 mm are illuminated with red light of wavelength 6.5×10-7 m. The interference fringes are observed on a screen placed 1 m from the slits. The distance between third bright fringe and the fifth dark fringe on the same side is equal to

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In the double-slit experiment, the distance of the second dark fringe from the central line is 3 mm. The distance of the fourth bright fringe from the central line is

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Two sources of light 0.5 mm apart are placed at a distance of 1.2 m and wavelength of light is 5000 Å. The phase difference between the two light waves interfering on the screen at a point at a distance 3 mm from central bright band is

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Two wavelengths of light λ1 and λ2 are sent through Young's double slit apparatus simultaneously. If 3rd order bright fringe of λ1 coincide with the fourth order bright fringe for λ2, then λ1λ2=

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If a thin transparent plate is introduced in the path of interfering waves, then entire fringe