Wave Optics

This topic covers concepts, such as Result of Foucault's Experiments of Light, and Fizeau’s Method to Determine Speed of Light.

This topic covers concepts, such as Wave Fronts of Light Wave, Wave Optics, Wave Surface of a Light Wave, Plane Wavefront, Spherical Wavefront, Wavefront and Concave Mirror, Reflection and Transmission of Wavefronts, Wavefront and Prism, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Spatial Coherence, Methods to Introduce Path Difference, Monochromatic Light Waves, Interference Pattern Produced by White Light, Standard Interference Patterns, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Conditions for YDSE, Additional Path Difference, Fringe Width in YDSE, Importance of Screen Distance in YDSE, Central Maximum and Numbering of Fringes, Results of YDSE, Angular Fringe Width, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Conjugate Foci Method to Determine the Distance between the Virtual Coherent Sources, Ray Diagram of Biprism Experiment, Screen Distance in Biprism, Fresnel's Biprism, Biprism Experimental Arrangement, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Newton's Corpuscular Theory, Geometrical Optics, Speed of Light, Nature of Image, Position of Image, Marginal Rays, Extended Object, Optics, Ray Diagrams, Ray of Light, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Explanation of Diffraction Using Huygens Principle, Diffraction of Sound Waves and Its Importance in Daily Life, Diffraction at Single Slit, Wavelength and Size of Aperture, Diffraction from Aperture, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Intensity of Diffraction Pattern in Fraunhofer's diffraction, Fraunhofer Shape of Incident or Diffracted Wavefront, Position of Secondary Maximum in Fraunhofer Diffraction, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Condition For Validity of Ray Optics, Fresnel Diffraction, Fresnel Distance, Fresnel Shape of Incident or Diffracted Wavefront, Comparison between Interference and Diffraction, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Resolving Power, Resolving Power of Microscope, Resolving Limit of Microscope, Types of Resolution, Resolving Limit of Telescope, Resolving Limit, Resolving Power of Telescope, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Plane of Polarisation, Plane of Vibration, Terms in Polarisation, Unpolarised Light Wave, and Polarisation of Light Waves.

This topic covers concepts, such as Polaroids, Detection of Plane Polarised Light, Polarisation by Reflection, Working of Polaroid, Production of Polarised Light, Law of Malus, Production of Partially Polarised Light, Pass-Axis of a Polaroid, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Drawbacks of Nicol Prism, Nicol Prism and Plane Polarised Light, Uses of Nicol Prism, Polarisation by Scattering, Polarisation by Dichroism, Polarisation of Light by Nicol Prism, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Radar, Light Source Moving towards Stationary Observer, Light Source Moving away from Stationary Observer, Sonar, Application of Doppler's Effect, Doppler Broadening, Doppler's Effect in Light Waves, etc.