Wave Optics

EXERCISE-1
PART- 1: SUBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION, PATH DIFFERENCE, WAVEFRONTS, AND COHERENCE
1. Two sources of intensity  & 4 are used in an interference experiment. Find the intensity at points
where the waves from the two sources superimpose with a phase difference of

(a) zero (b) & (c) They meet at phase difference of .
2
2. An electromagnetic wave travelling through a transparent medium is given by
 y 
E x ( y, t )  E ox sin 2  7
 3  1014 t  in S units. Then what is the refractive index of the medium ?
 5  10 

YDSE WITH MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT

3. What is the effect on the the fringe width of interference fringes in a Young's double slit experiment
due to each of the following operations.
(a) The screen is moved away from the plane of the slits.
(b) the (monochromatic) source is replaced by another (monochromatic) source of shorter
wavelength.
(c) The separation between the two slits is increased.
(d) The width of two slits are slightly increased.
[In each operation, take all parameters, other than the one specified to remain unchanged]

4. 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. Find the distance
between the third dark fringe and the fifth bright fringe on the same side of the central maxima.

5. In a Young’s double slit experiment, the fringe width is found to be 0.4 mm. If the whole apparatus is
immersed in water of refractive index (4/3), without disturbing the geometrical arrangement, what is
the new fringe width?

6. Find the angular fringe width in a Young’s double slits experiment with blue-green light of wavelength 6000
Å. The separation between the slits is 3.0 × 10–3 m.

YDSE WITH POLYCHROMATIC LIGHT

7. A source emitting two light waves of wavelengths 580 nm and 700 nm is used in a young's double slit
interference experiment. The separation between the slits is 0.20 mm and the interference is observed on
a screen placed at 150 cm from the slits. Find the linear separation between the first maximum (next to the
central maximum) corresponding to the two wavelengths.

YDSE WITH GLASS SLAB, OPTICAL PATH.

8. A flint glass and a crown glass are fitted on the two slits of a double slit apparatus. The thickness of the
strips is 0.40 mm and the separation between the slits is 0.12 cm. The refractive index of flint glass and
crown glass are 1.62 and 1.52 respectively for the light of wavelength 480 nm which is used in the experiment.
The interference is observed on a screen a distance one meter away. (a) What would be the fringe-width?
(b) At what distance from the geometrical centre will the nearest maximum be located?

9. Find the thickness of a plate which will produce a change in optical path equal to one fourth of the wavelength
 of the light passing through it normally. The refractive index of the plate is µ.

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YDSE WITH OBLIQUE INCIDENCE.
10. A parallel beam of monochromatic light of wavelength  is used in a Young’s double slit experiment. The
siits are separated by a distance d and the screen is placed parallel to the plane of the slits. The incident
  
beam makes an angle  = sin–1   with the normal to the plane of the slits. A transparent sheet of
 2d 


refractive index. '' and thickness t = is introduced infront of one of the slit. find the intensity at
2(  1)
the geometrical centre .

THIN FILM INTERFERENCE

11. A soap film of thickness 0.3 m appears dark when seen by the refracted light of wavelength 580 nm.
What is the index of refraction of the soap solution, if it is known to be between 1.3 and 1.5?

12. A parallel beam of light of wavelength 560 nm falls on a thin film of oil (refractive index = 1.4). What
should be the minimum thickness of the film so that it weakly transmits the light?

FOR IIT-JEE MAIN

13. A slit of width ‘a’ is illuminated by light of wavelength 6000 A0 FOR What value of ‘a will the :-
(i) First maximum fall at an angle of diffraction of 300 ?
(ii) First minimum fall at an angle of diffraction 300 ?

PART- 2: OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION, PATH DIFFERENCE, WAVEFRONTS, AND COHERENCE

1. Ratio of intensities of two light waves is given by 4 : 1. The ratio of the amplitudes of the waves is :
(A) 2 : 1 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 4 : 1 (D) 1 : 4

2. Two coherent monochromatic light beams of intensities I and 4I are superposed; the maximum and
minimum possible intensities in the resulting beam are :
(A) 5 and  (B) 5 and 3 (C) 9 and  (D) 9 and 3

YDSE WITH MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT

3. If one of the two slits of a Young’s double slit experiment is painted over so that it transmits half the light
intensity as compared to that of the other, then
(A) The fringe system would disappear
(B) The bright fringes will be more bright & dark fringes will be more dark
(C) The dark fringes would be less dark and bright fringes would be less bright
(D) Bright as well as dark fringes would be darker.

4. The contrast in the fringes in any interference pattern depends on :

(A) Fringe width (B) Wavelength
(C) Intensity ratio of the sources (D) Distance between the sources

5. Yellow light emitted by sodium lamp in Young’s double slit experiment is replaced by monochromatic
blue light of the same intensity :
(A) fringe width will decrease. (B) fringe width will increase.
(C) fringe width will remain unchanged. (D) fringes will become less intense.

6. In a YDSE: D = 1 m, d = 1 mm and  = 500 n m. The distance of 1000th maxima from the central maxima is:
(A) 0.5 m (B) 0.577 m (C) 0.495 m (D) does not exist

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7. In Young’s double slit experiment the 5th maximum with wavelength 1 is at a distance d1 from the centre
of the fringe pattern and that with wavelength  2 at a distance d2 , then the ratio d1 / d2 is
(A)  2 / 1 (B) 1 /  2 (C)  22 / 12 (D) 12 /  22 .
8. In a Young's double slit experiment, d = 1 mm,  = 6000 Å & D = 1 m. The slits produce same intensity on
the screen. The minimum distance between two points on the screen having 75 % intensity of the maximum
intensity is:
(A) 0.45 mm (B) 0.40 mm (C) 0.30 mm (D) 0.20mm

9. Two coherent light sources each of wavelength  are separated by a distance 3 . The total number of
minima formed on line AB which runs from -  to + is:

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8

YDSE WITH POLYCHROMATIC LIGHT

10. In the figure shown if a parallel beam of white light is incident on the
plane of the slits then the distance of the nearest white spot on the
screen from O is: [assume d << D,  << d ]
(A) 0
(B) d/2
(C) d/3
(D) d/6

11. The Young’s double slit experiment is performed with blue and with green light of wavelengths 4360
Å and 5460 Å respectively. If X is the distance of 4th maximum from the central one, then :
(A) X(blue) = X(green) (B) X(blue) > X(green)
X(blue) 5460
(C) X(blue) < X(green) (D) X(green )  4360

12. White light is used to illuminate the two silts in a Young’s double slit experiment. The separation between
the slits is b and the screen is at a distance d (> > b) from the slits. At a point on the screen directly in
front of one of the slits, certain wavelengths are missing. one of these missing wavelengths is :
2 2
b2 2 b2 b 2b
(A)  = (B)  = (C)  = (D)  =
2d d 3 d 3d
YDSE WITH GLASS SLAB, OPTICAL PATH
13. A two slit Young’s interference experiment is done with monochromatic light of wavelength 6000 Å.
The slits are 2 mm apart. The fringes are observed on a screen placed 10 cm away from the slits.
Now a transparent plate of thickness 0.5 mm is placed in front of one of the slits and it is found that
the interference pattern shifts by 5 mm. The refractive index of the transparent plate is :
(A)1.2 (B) 0.6 (C) 2.4 (D) 1.5

14. In YDSE , films of thickness t1 and t 2 and refractive indices 1 and  2 are placed in the path of the two
interfering beams of light. If 1t1   2 t 2 , then the central maximum will shift by

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t1 ~ t 2 t1  t 2
(A) fringes (B) fringes
 2
1t1   2 t 2
(C) fringes (D)none of these.


15. In a YDSE both slits produce equal intensities on the screen. A 100 % transparent thin film is placed in front
of one of the slits. Now the intensity of the geometrical centre of system on the screen becomes 75 % of
the previous intensity. The wavelength of the light is 6000Å and glass = 1.5. The thickness of the film
cannot be:
(A) 0.2  m (B) 1.0  m (C) 1.4  m (D) 1.6  m

16. Interference fringes are obtained in Young’s double slit experiment on a screen. Which of the following
statements will not be correct about the effect of a thin transparent plate when placed in the path of one
of the two interfering beams?
(A) The separation between fringes remains unaffected.
(B) The entire fringe system shifts towards the side on which the plate is placed.

(C) The condition for maxima and minima are reversed i.e., maxima for odd multiple of and minima for
2

even multiple of .
2
(D) The shape of the fringe also remains unaffected.

THIN FILM INTERFERENCE

17. White light is incident normally on a glass plate (in air) of thickness 500 nm and refractive index of 1.5. The
wavelength (in nm) in the visible region (400 nm - 700nm) that is strongly reflected by the plate is:
(A) 450 (B) 600 (C) 400 D) 500

FOR IIT (MAIN)

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18. A slit of size 0.15 cm is placed at 2.1 m from a screen. On illuminated it by a light of wavelength 5 x 10
cm. The width of diffraction pattern will be:-
(A) 70 mm (B) 0.14 mm (C) 1.4 cm (D) 0.14 cm

EXERCISE-2
EXERCISE-
PREVIOUS
2 PREVIOUS
YEAR’S JEE
YEARS'
(MAIN)
JEE&(MAIN)
AIEEE PROBLEMS
& AIEEE PROBLEMS
1. Wavelength of light used in an optical instrument are 1= 4000 Å and 2= 5000 Å, then ratio of their
respective resolving powers (corresponding to and 2) is - [AIEEE - 2002]
(1) 16 : 25 (2) 9 : 1 (3) 4 : 5 (4) 5 : 4

2. Electromagnetic waves are transverse in nature is evident by [AIEEE-2002]

(1) polarization (2) interference (3) reflection (4) diffraction

3. To demonstrate the phenomenon of interference we require two sources which emit radiation of
[AIEEE-2003]
(1) nearly the same frequency (2) the same frequency
(3) different wavelength (4) the same frequency and having a definite phase relationship

4. The maximum number of possible interference maxima for slit-separation equal to twice the wavelength in
Young's double-slit experiment is [AIEEE - 2004]
(1) infinite (2) five (3) three (4) zero

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5. A young's double slit experiment uses a monochromatic source. The shape of the interference fringes
formed on a screen is [AIEEE - 2005]
(1) Straight line (2) Parabola (3) Hyperbola (4) Circle

6. If 0 is the intensity of the principal maximum in the single slit diffraction pattern, then what will be its
intensity when the slit width is doubled ? [AIEEE - 2005]
(1) 0  (2) 0 /2 (3) 20 (4) 40

7. When an unpolarized light of intensity 0 is incident on a polarizing sheet, the intensity of the light which
does not get transmitted is [AIEEE - 2005]
1 1
(1) zero (2) 0 (3)  (4) 
2 0 4 0

8. In a Young's double slit experiment the intensity at a point where the path difference is ( being the
6
wavelength of the light used) is I. If 0 denotes the maximum intensity, I/0 is equal to:[AIEEE - 2007]
1
(1) 3 1 3
2 (2) (3) (4)
2 2 4

Direction : Questions number (9 - 11) are based on the following paragraph.

An initially parallel cylindrical beam travels in a medium of refractive index () = 0 + 2, where 0 and
2 are positive constants and  is the intensity of the light beam. The intensity of the beam is decreasing
with increasing radius. [AIEEE-2010]

9. As the beam enters the medium, it will

(1) diverge
(2) converge
(3) diverge near the axis and converge near the periphery
(4) travel as a cylindrical beam

10. The initial shape of the wavefront of the beam is :

(1) convex
(2) concave
(3) convex near the axis and concave near the periphery
(4) planar

11. The speed of light in the medium is

(1) minimum on the axis of the beam (2) the same everywhere in the beam
(3) directly proportional to the intensity  (4) maximum on the axis of the beam

12. At two points P and Q on a screen in Young’s double slit experiment, waves from slits S1 and S2 have a path

difference of 0 and respectively. The ratio of intensities at P and Q will be : [AIEEE - 2011]
4
(1) 2 : 1 (2) 2 :1 (3) 4 : 1 (4) 3 : 2

13. In a Young’s double slit experiment, the two slits act as coherent sources of waves of equal amplitude A
and wavelength . In another experiment with the same arrangement the two slits are made to act as
incoherent sources of waves of same amplitude and wavelength. If the intensity at the middle point of the
1
screen in the first case is 1 and in the second case is 2 , then the ratio  is : [AIEEE - 2011]
2

(1) 2 (2) 1 (3) 0.5 (4) 4

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14. Statement - 1 :
On viewing the clear blue portion of the sky through a Calcite Crystal, the intensity of transmitted light
varies as the crystal is rotated.
Statement - 2:
The light coming from the sky is polarized due to scattering of sun light by particles in the atmosphere. The
scattering is largest for blue light [AIEEE - 2011]
(1) Statement-1 is true, statement-2 is false.
(2) Statement-1 is true, statement-2 is true, statement-2 is the correct explanation of statment-1
(3) Statement-1 is true, statement-2 is true, statement-2 is not the correct explanation of statement-1
(4) Statement-1 is false, statement-2 is true.

15. Direction :
The question has a paragraph followed by two statements, Statement –1 and Statement –2. Of the given
four alternatives after the statements, choose the one that describes the statements.
A thin air film is formed by putting the convex surface of a plane-convex lens over a plane glass plate. With
monochromatic light, this film gives an interference pattern due to light reflected from the top (convex)
surface and the bottom (glass plate) surface of the film.
Statement –1 :
When light reflects from the air-glass plate interface, the reflected wave suffers a phase change of 
Statement –2 :
The centre of the interference pattern is dark.
(1) Statement –1 is true, statement –2 is false.
(2) Statement –1 is true, Statement –2 is true, Statement –2 is the correct explanation of Statement –1
(3) Statement –1 is true, Statement –2 is true, Statement –2 is not the correct explanation of Statement–1
(4) Statement–1 is false, Statement –2 is true

16. Two coherent point sources S1 and S2 are separated by a small distance 'd' as shown. The fringes obtained
on the screen will be : [JEE Mains - 2013]

(1) points (2) straight lines (3) semi-circles (4) concentric circles
17. Two beams, A and B, of plane polarized light with mutually perpendicular planes of polarization are seen
through a polaroid. From the position when the beam A has maximum intensity (and beam B has zero
intensity), a rotation of polaroid through 30º makes the two beams appear equally bright. If the initial
IA
intensities of the two beams are IA and IB respectively, then I equals [JEE Mains - 2014]
B

2 1
(1) 3 (2) (3)1 (4)
3 3
18. On a hot summer night, the refractive index of air is smallest near the ground and increases with 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 : [JEE Main - 2015]
(1) becomes narrower (2) goes horizontally without any deflection
(3) bends downwards (4) bends upwards
19. Assuming human pupil to have a radius of 0.25 cm and a comfortable viewing distance of 25 cm, the
minimum separation between two objects that human eye can resolve at 500 nm wavelength is :
[JEE Main - 2015]
(1) 1 m (2) 30 m (3) 100 m (4) 300 m

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20. The box of a pin hole camera, of length L, has a hole of radius a. It is assumed that when the hole is
illuminated by a parallel beam of light of wavelength  the spread of the spot
(obtained on the opposite wall of the camera) is the sum of its geometrical spread and the spread due to
diffraction. The spot would then have its minimum size (say bmin) when :- [JEE Main - 2016]

2 2  2 2 
(1) a  and bmin = 4 L (2) a  and bmin =  
L L  L 

 2 2 
(3) a   L and bmin =   (4) a   L and bmin = 4 L
 L 

21. A single slit of width b is illuminated by a coherent monochromatic light of wavelength . If the second and
fourth minima in the diffraction pattern at a distance 1 m from the slit are at 3 cm and 6 cm respectively
from the central maximum, what is the width of the central maximum ? (i.e. distance between first minimum
on either side of the central maximum) [JEE Main - 2017]
(1) 1.5 cm (2) 3.0 cm (3) 4.5 cm (4) 6.0 cm

22. A single slit of width 0.1 mm is illuminated by a parallel beam of light of wavelength 6000 Å and diffraction
bands are observed on a screen 0.5 m from the slit. The distance of the third dark band from the central
bright band is : [JEE Main - 2017]
(1) 3 mm (2) 9 mm (3) 4.5 mm (4) 1.5 mm

23. In a 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 common central maximum to the point where the bright fringes due
to both the wavelengths coincide is : [JEE Main - 2017]
(1) 1.56 mm (2) 7.8 mm (3) 9.75 mm (4) 15.6 mm

24. The angular width of the central maximum in a single slit diffraction pattern is 600. The width of the slit is 1
m. The slit is illuminated by monochromatic plane waves. If another slit of same width is made near it,
Yong’s fringes can be observed on a screen placed at a distance 50 cm from the slits. If the observed fringe
width is 1 cm, what is slit separation distance ?
(i.e. distance between the centres of each slit.) [JEE Main - 2018]
(1) 25 m (2) 50 m (3) 75m (4) 100 m

25. Light of wavelength 550 nm falls normally on a slit of width 22.0 × 10-5 cm. The angular position of the
second minima from the central maximum will be (in radians) : [JEE Main - 2018]
π π π π
(1) (2) (3) (4)
12 8 6 4

26. Unpolarized light of intensity I is incident on a system of two polarizers, A followed by B. The intensity of
emergent light is I/2. If a third polarizer C is placed between A and B, the intensity of emergent light is
reduced to I/3. The angle between the polarizers A and C is . Then : [JEE Main - 2018]
1/2 1/4
2 2
(1) cos     (2) cos    
3 3
1/2 1/4
1 1
(3) cos     (4) cos    
 3  3

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EXERCISE-3
PART-1: PREVIOUS YEAR’S IIT-JEE (ADVANCED) PROBLEMS
Single option correct type
1. In the ideal double-slit experiment, when a glass-plate (refractive index 1.5) of thickness t is introduced
in the path of one of the interfering beams (wavelength ), the intensity at the position where the
central maximum occurred previously remains unchanged. The minimum thickness of the glass-plate
is: [JEE - 2002]
(A) 2  (B) 2 /3 (C) /3 (D) 

2. A parallel beam of light of wavelength  is incident on a plane mirror

at an angle  as shown in the figure. With maximum intensity at
point P,
which of the following relation is correct. [JEE 2003]
 
(A) cos   sec  = (B) cos  =
4d 4d

 
(C) cos  sin  = (D) cos  =
d 2d

3. In a YDSE arrangement composite lights of different wavelengths  1 = 560 nm and

2 = 400 nm are used.If D = 1m, d = 0.1 mm. Then the distance between two completely dark regions is
[JEE - 2004]
(A) 4 mn (B) 5.6 mm (C) 14 mm (D) 28 mm

4. In Young’s double slit experiment an electron beam is used to form a fringe pattern instead of light. If speed
of the electrons is increased then the fringe width will : [JEE - 2005 ]
(A) increase (B) decrease
(C) remains same (D) no fringe pattern will be formed

5. In Young’s double slit experiment maximum intensity is  than the angular position where the intensity

becomes is : [JEE - 2005]
4

         
(A) sin–1  d  (B) sin–1  3d  (C) sin–1  2d  (D) sin–1  4d 
       

6. Young’s double slit experiment is carried out by using green, red and blue light, one color at time. The fringe
widths recorded are G, R and B, respectively. Then [JEE-2012]

(A) G > B > R (B)B > G > R (C)R > B > G (D)R > G > B

7. In the Young's double slit experiment using a monochromatic light of wavelength , the path difference (in
terms of an integer n) corresponding to any point having half the peak intensity is :
[JEE Adv. - 2013]
   
(A) 2n  1 (B) 2n  1 (C) 2n  1 (D) 2n  1
2 4 8 16

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8. Using the expression 2d sin  = , one calculates the values of d by measuring the corresponding angles 
in the range 0 to 90º. The wavelength  is exactly knowns and the error in  is constant for all values of .
As  increases from 0º : [JEE Adv. - 2013]

(A) the absolute error in d remains constant. (B) the absolute error in d increases.
(C) the fractional error in d remains constant. (D) the fractional error in d decreases.

PART-2: PRACTICE PROBLEMS (JEE MAIN)

1. Diameter of human eye lens is 2 mm., What will be the minimum distance between two points to resolve
them, which are situated at a distance of 50 meter from eye. The wavelength of light is 5000 Å :-
(1) 2.32 m (2) 4.28 mm (3) 1.25 cm (4) 12.48 cm

2. A double slit experiment is performed with light of wavelength 500 nm. A thin film of thickness 2 mm and
refractive index 1.5 in introduced in the path of the upper beam. The location of the central maximum will
(1) Remain unshifted (2) Shift downward by nearly two fringes
(3) Shift upward by nearly two fringes (4) Shift downward by 10 fringes

3. What happens to the fringe pattern when the Young’s double slit experiment is performed in water instead
or air then fringe width
(1) Shrinks (2) Disappear (3) Unchanged (4) Enlarged

4. Which one of the following statement is true ?

(1) Both light and sound waves in air are transverse
(2) The sound waves in air are longitudinal while the light waves are transvers
(3) Both light and sound waves in air are longitudinal
(4) Both light and sound waves can travel in vacuum

5. Two waves have equations :

y1 = a sin (t  1 ); y 2  a sin(t  2 ). If the amplitude of the resultant wave is equal to the amplitude of
each of superimposing waves, then what will be the phase differences between them?
 2 
(1) (2) (3)  (4)
3 3 6
6. Two periodic waves of intensities I1 and I2 pass through a region at the same time in the same direction.
The sum of the maximum and minimum intensities is
(1) I1 + I2 (2) ( 1   2 )2 (3) ( 1 –  2 )2 (4) 2(1   2 )

7. Two points are located at a distance of 10 m and 15 m from the source of oscillation. The period of
oscillation is 0.05 s and the velocity of the wave is 300 m/s. What is the phase difference between the
oscillations of two points?
 2 
(1) (2) (3)  (4)
3 3 6

Comprehensin For (Q. 8 to Q. 10)

In a Young's double slit arrangement, a source of wavelength 6000 Å is used. The screen is placed 1
m from the slits. Fringes formed on the screen, are observed by a student sitting close to the slits.
The student's eye can distinguish two neighbouring fringes if they subtend an angle more than 1
minute of arc.

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8. The maximum distance between the slits so that the fringes are clearly visible will be :
3 6 4.5 6.48
(1) mm (2) mm (3) mm (4) mm
   
9. The position of the 3rd bright fringe from the centre of the screen will be :
   
(1) mm (2) mm (3) mm (4) mm
0.036 36 3.6 0.06
10. The position of the 5th dark fringe from the centre of the screen will be :
   
(1) mm (2) mm (3) mm (4) mm
24 0.024 2 .4 0.06
11. An unpolarised light of intensity 0 falls on a polaroid whose optic axis is inclined at 45° to the incident light.
Then the intensity of light emerging from the polaroid is :
0 0
(1) 0 (2) (3) (4) Zero
2 4

12. If a mica sheet of thickness t and refractive index  is placed in the path of one of interfering beam in a
double slit experiment then displacement of fringes will be :

D D D D 2
(1) t (2) (  1)t (3) (  1)t (4) (  1)t
d d d d

13. If in a Young's double slit experiment, the slit distance is 3 cm, the separation between slits and screen is
70cm and wavelength of light is 1000 Å , then fringe width will be
(1) 2 × 10–5 m (2) 2 × 10–3 m (3) 0.2 × 10–3 m (4) none of these

14. Maximum and minimum intensities obtained by two sources having intensities 4 and  are :
(1) 5, –3 (2) 9,  (3) 9, – (4) 5, 3

15. Seperation between slits is halved and between screen and slits is doubled. Final fringe width if
original is w :
(1) w (2) 9w (3) 4w (4) 2w

16. The distance between two successive atomic planes of a calcite crystal is 0.3 nm. The minimum angle for
Brag scattering of 0.3 Å X-rays will be
(1) 1.43° (2) 1.56° (3) 2.86° (4) 30°

17. In single slit diffraction pattern :

(1) central fringe has negligible width than others
(2) all fringes are of same width
(3) central fringe does not exist
(4) none of the above

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18. The maxium number of possible interference maxima for slit – separation equal to twice the wavelength in
Young’ s double slit experiment is
(1) infinite (2) five (3) three (4) zero

19. To demonstrate the phenometion of interference we require two sources which emit radiations of
(1) nearly the same frequency
(2) the same frequency
(3) different wavelegth
(4) the same frequency and having a defnite phase relationship

20. n a biprism experiment by using light of wavelength 5000 Å, 5 mm wide fringes are obtained on a screen
1.0 m away from the coherent sources. The separation between the two current sources is
(1) 1.0 mm (2) 0.1 mm (3) 0.05 mm (4) 0.01 mm
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21. Monochromatic light of frequency 5 × 10 Hz travelling in vacuum enters medium of refractive index 1.5.
Its wavelength in the medium is
(1) 4000 Å (2) 5000 Å (3) 6000 Å (4) 5500 Å

22. Two coherent light sources emit light of the :

(1) same intensity (2) same pitch
(3) constant but different wavelengths (4) same frequency having constant phase difference

23. If in Fraunhofer diffraction due to a single slit, the slit width is increased, the width of the central maximum
will
(1) increase (2) decrease
(3) not change (4) change depending upon the wave length of light used

24. In Young’s double slit experiment, the slits are 2 mm apart and are illuminated by photons of two
wavelength  1 = 12000 Å and  2 = 10000 Å. 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 ?
(1) 6 mm (2) 4 mm (3) 3 mm (4) 8 mm

25. A parallel beam of fast moving electrons is incident normally on a narrow slit. A fluorescent screen is
placed at a large distance from the slit. If the speed of the electrons is increased, which of the following
statements is correct ?
(1) The angular width of the central maximum of the diffraction pattern will increase.
(2) The angular width of the central maximum will decrease.
(3) The angular width of the central maximum will be unaffected.
(4) Diffraction pattern is not observed on the screen in the case of electrons.

26. A single-slit diffraction pattern is obtained using a beam of red light. if the red light is replaced by blue light
which one of the following observations is true ?
(1) no change in diffraction pattern
(2) diffraction fringes become narrower and crowded together
(3) diffraction fringes become broader and further apat
(4) diffraction pattern disappears

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27. Two coherent sources S1 and S2 having same phase, emit light of wavelength  . The separation between
S1 and S2 is 2. The light of collected on a screen placed at a distance D > >  from slit S1 as shown in
figure. Find the minimum distance so that the intensity at P is equal to intensity at O.

D D
(1) (2) 2D (3) (4) D 3
2 3
28. In Young’s experiment, monochromatic parallel beam of light is used to illuminate the two slits A and
B. Interference fringes are observed on a screen placed in front of the slits. Now if a thin glass plate
is placed normally in the path of the beam coming from the slit A, then

(1) the fringe will disappear

(2) the fringe width will increase
(3) the fringe width will decrease
(4) there will be no change in fringe width
29. In a certain double slit experimental arrangement, interference fringes of width 1.0 mm each are
observed when light of wavelength 5000 Å is used. Keeping the set-up unaltered if the source is
replaced by another of wavelength 6000 Å, the fringe width will be :
(1) 0.5 mm (2) 1.00 mm (3) 1.2 mm (4) 1.5 mm
30. The distance between two slits in a Young's double slit experiment is 3 mm. The distance of the screen
from the slits is 1 m. Microwaves of wavelength 1 mm are incident on the plane of the slits normally. The
distance of the first maxima on the screen from the central maxima will be:
(1) 33.33 cm (2) 35.35 cm (3) 17.7 cm (4) 18 cm

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