Fresnel Biprism

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Fresnel Biprism: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Fresnel's Biprism, Angles of Biprism, Conjugate Foci Method to Determine the Distance between the Virtual Coherent Sources & Process of Measurement of Wavelength by Biprism Experiment etc.

Important Questions on Fresnel Biprism

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With a monochromatic light, the fringe width using a glass prism setup in air is 2 mm. Given μga=32, μwa=43. The whole setup is immersed in water, then the new fringe width is

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Estimate the distance for which ray optics is good approximation for an aperture of 5 mm and wavelength 500 nm?

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The refracting angle of bi-prism is :

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Fresnel biprism a thin double prism placed base to base and have very small refracting angle of :

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Which of the following is the correct expression to find screen distance in biprism?

Given  λis the wavelength of the monochromatic light, D is the distance between the light sources and the screen and d is the distance between the two sources of light and β being the fringe width.

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The eccentricity of the hyperbola length of whose conjugate axis is equal to half of the distance between the foci is 

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Find the equation of the hyperbola whose conjugate axis is 55 and the distance between the foci is 13.

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In the hyperbola the distance between the foci is equal to distance between one focus to one end of conjugate axis then its eccentricity

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If Fresnel's bi prism experiment as held in water in spite of air,  what will be the effect on the fringe width?

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In Fresnel's Bi-prism on increasing the prism angle the fringe width will.

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The wavelength of light used in a biprism experiment is 6000 Ao and I0 is the intensity of central maximum. If distance between two slits is 0.25 cm and the distance of the screen from slits is 120 cm then at what distance (in μm ) from the central maxima, the intensity will be I02? 

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A lens inserted between the Fresnel biprism and eye-piece which are 1 m apart gives two images of the slit in two positions. In first case, the images of the slit are 9×10-3 m and in the second position the images are 4×10-3 m apart. The distance between the interference fringes is found to be1×10-M m when sodium light of wavelength 6000×10-10 m is used. What is the value of M? (Take π=3.14 )

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What will be the actual distance of separation in a Fresnel biprism experiment if it is given that two positions of lens give separation between the slits as 16 cm and 9 cm respectively?

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In Fresnel's biprism experiment a mica sheet of refraction index 1.5 is placed in the path of one of the interfering beams. This results in shifting of central fringe through 5 fringe width. If wavelength of light used is 6000  , then thickness of the sheet will be

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In a Biprism experiment, distance between sources and screen is 1.0 m. Fringes of width 5 mm are obtained when wavelength of light is 5000  . Separation of two coherent sources is

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In a Fresnel biprism experiment, two positions of the lens give separation between the slits as 16 cm and 9 cm respectively. Actual distance of separation is

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In a bi-prism experiment light of wavelength 5000  is being used. On a screen 1.0 m away from the coherent source, 5 mm wide fringes are observed. Then distance between two coherent sources is

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In Fresnel's biprism experiment, the distance between biprism and screen is 4m. The angle of prism is 2×10-3 radian the refractive index of glass of biprism is 1.5. The fringe width observed on the screen is 15×10-4 m . Find the number of fringes on the screen

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The distance between the slits and the screen in a biprism experiment is D and d is separation between the two slits. For the two positions of a convex lens placed between the biprism and the screen, the separation between the images are d1 and d2 respectively. Then what is the value of  d1-d2 
At first position lens is at u distance from source slit

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 When monochromatic light is replaced by white light in Fresnel's biprism arrangement, the central fringe is