INTERFERENCE

1. For Young’s double slit experiment, two statements are given below:
Statement I: If screen is moved away from the plane of slits, angular
separation of the fringes remains constant.
Statement II: If the monochromatic source is replaced by another
monochromatic source of larger wavelength, the angular separation of fringes
decreases.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the
options given below:
1) Both statement I and statement II are true
2) Both statement I and statement II are false
*3) Statement I is true but statement II is false
4) Statement I is false but statement II is true
2. In a Young’s double slit experiment, a student of screen when a
monochromatic light of 600nm wavelength is used. If the wavelength of light
is changed to 400nm, then the number of fringes he would observe in the
same region of the screen is
1) 8 2) 9 *3) 12 4) 6
3. In Young’s double slit experiment, if the separation between coherent
sources is halved and the distance of the screen from the coherent sources is
doubled, then the fringe width becomes
*1) Four times 2) One-fourth 3) Double 4) Half
4. In a double slit experiment, when light of wavelength 400nm was used, the
angular width of the first minima formed on a screen placed 1m away, was
found to be 0.20 . What will be the angular width of the first minima, if the
entire experimental apparatus is immersed in water? (  water  4 / 3 )
1) 0.2660 *2) 0.150 3) 0.050 4) 0.10
5. Young’s double slit experiment is first performed in air and then in a medium
other than air. It is found that 8th bright fringe in the medium lies where 5th
dark fringe lies in air. The refractive index of the medium is nearly
1) 1.59 2) 1.69 *3) 1.78 4) 1.28
6. In Young’s double slit experiment the separation d between the slits is 2mm,
the wavelength  of the light used is 5896A0 and distance D between the
screen and slits is 100cm. It is found that the angular width of the fringes is
0.20 0 (with same  and D) the separation between the slits needs to be
changed to
1) 1.8mm *2) 1.9mm 3) 2.1mm 4) 1.7mm
7. The intensity at the maximum in a Young’s double slit experiment is I 0 .
Distance between two slits is d  5 , where,  is the wavelength of light used in
the experiment. What will be the intensity in front of one of the slits on the
screen placed at a distance, D  10d
I 3 I
1) 0 2) I 0 *3) 0 4) I 0
4 4 2
8. The interference pattern is obtained with two coherent light sources of
I I
intensity ratio n. In the interference pattern, the ratio max min will be
I max  I min
n 2 n n 2 n
1) *2) 3) 4)
n 1 n 1 (n  1) 2
(n  1)2
9. In a double slit experiment, the two slits are 1mm apart and the screen is
placed 1m away. A monochromatic light of wavelength 500nm is used. What
will be the width of each slit for obtaining ten maxima of double slit within
the central maxima of single slit pattern?
1) 0.5mm 2) 0.02mm *3) 0.2mm 4) 0.1mm
10. Two slits in the Young’s experiment have widths in the ratio 1:25. The ratio
I
of intensity at the maxima and minima in the interference pattern, max is
I min
4 9 212 49
1) *2) 3) 4)
9 4 49 121
11. In Young’s double slit experiment, the slits are 2mm apart and are
illuminated by photons of two wavelengths 1  12000 A0 and 2  10000 A0 . At what
minimum distance from the common central bright fringe from one
interference pattern coincide with a bright fringe from the other?
1) 8mm *2) 6mm 3) 4mm 4) 3mm
12. A beam of light of wavelength 600nm from a distance source falls on a single
slit 1mm wide and the resulting diffraction pattern is observed on a screen
2m away. The distance between the first dark fringes on either side of the
central bright fringe is
1) 2.4mm 2) 1.2mm *3) 2.4cm 4)1.2cm
13. In Young’s double slit experiment, the two slits act as coherent sources of
equal amplitude ‘a’ and of wavelength  . In other experiment with the same
set up, the two slits are sources of equal amplitude ‘a’ and wavelength I, but
are incoherent. The ratio of intensities of light at the midpoint of the screen
in the first case to that in second case is
*1) 2:1 2) 1:2 3) 3:4 4) 4:3
7
14. Two coherent sources of wavelength 6.2  10 m produce interference. The
path difference corresponding to 10th order maximum will be?
*1) 6.2  106 m 2) 3.1  10 6 m 3) 1.5  10 6 m 4) 12.4  10 6 m
15. In Young’s double slit experiment, white light is used. The separation
between the slits is b. The screen is at a distance d(d>>b) from the slits.
Some wavelengths are missing exactly in front of one slit. These wavelength
are?
b2 2b 2 b2 2b 2
A) B) C) D)
d d 3d 3d
1) A, B and C are correct 2) A and B are correct
3) B and D are correct *4) A and C are correct
16. Two sources of intensity 2I and 8I are used in an interference experiment.
The intensity at a point where the waves from two sources superimpose with
a phase difference of
a) zero b)  / 2 c)  is
I
*1) 18I,10I,2I 2) 5I,4I,I 3) 2I,I, 4) 2I,10I,18I
2
17. In Young’s double slit experiment, 5th dark fringe is obtained at a point. If a
thin transparent film is placed in the path of one of waves, then 7th bright
fringe is obtained at the same point. The thickness of the film in terms of
wavelength  and refractive index  will be
1.5 2.5
1) 2) 1.5(   1) 3) 2.5(   1) *4)
(   1) (   1)
18. The maximum 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. In Young’s double slit experiment the fringe pattern is observed on a screen
placed at a distance D. The slits are illuminated by light of wavelength  . The
distance from the central point where the intensity falls to half the
maximum is
D D D D
1) 2) 3) *4)
3d 2d d 4d
20. In a Young’s double slit experiment, 12 fringes are observed to be formed in a
certain region of the screen when light of wavelength 600nm is used. If the
light of wavelength 400nm is used, the number of fringes observed in the
same region of the screen will be
1) 12 *2) 18 3) 24 4) 8