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Newton S Ring

Newton's ring is an interference pattern created between two surfaces - a spherical lens surface and an adjacent flat glass plate. Light from a monochromatic source is reflected between the two surfaces, creating a set of concentric bright and dark rings when viewed under a microscope. The construction involves using a lens and glass plate separated by a thin air film. The principle is that the reflected light rays from the two surfaces interfere and combine, resulting in the ring pattern. Applications include using the ring radii to determine the wavelength of light or refractive index of liquids.

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Newton S Ring

Newton's ring is an interference pattern created between two surfaces - a spherical lens surface and an adjacent flat glass plate. Light from a monochromatic source is reflected between the two surfaces, creating a set of concentric bright and dark rings when viewed under a microscope. The construction involves using a lens and glass plate separated by a thin air film. The principle is that the reflected light rays from the two surfaces interfere and combine, resulting in the ring pattern. Applications include using the ring radii to determine the wavelength of light or refractive index of liquids.

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NEWTON’S RING

• Construction,
• Working principle
• Its applications

Presented By-
ANIRUDH SRIVASTAVA
.
NEWTON’S RING :

It is phenomenon in which an interference


pattern is created by reflection of light between
two surfaces –
1. a spherical surface (plano-convex lens)
2. an adjacent touching flat surface
(glass plate).
CONSTRUCTION:
 A Monochromatic source of light S is kept
at the focus of lens L1.
 The parallel beam of light emerging from
L1 falls on the glass plate G kept at 45°.
 The glass plate reflects a part of the
incident light vertically downwards
normally on the thin air film enclosed by
the plano-convex lens L and plane glass
plate P.
 The reflected beam from the air film is
viewed in microscope. Alternate bright and
dark circular rings with dark spots at the
centre can be seen.
Newton’s ring experimental setup
Experimental set-up:
Principle Of Newton’s Ring:
 Division of amplitude
 Light ray AB from monochromatic source incident on the system and reflects
from both the lower surface of the plano convex lens and the upper surface of
the optical flat glass plate as ray 1 and 2.
 The reflected rays combine and superpose.
 These rings are concentric.
Newton’s Ring as observed under the
Microscope
Applications :
 Using the method of Newton’s rings, the wavelength of a given
monochromatic source of light can be determined.
The radius of nth dark ring and (n+m)the dark ring are given by
rn2 = nRλ and r2n+m = (n+m) Rλ
rn+m2 – rn2 = mRλ
so, λ = [rn+m2 – rn2] / mr
 Using Newton’s rings, the refractive index of a liquid can be
calculated. Let λa and λm represent the wavelength of light in air and
in medium (liquid). If rn is the radius of the nth dark ring in the air and
if rn is the radius of the nth dark ring in liquid, then
rn2 = nRλa
r`n2 = nRλm = nRλa/μ

so,

μ = rn2/ r`n2
THANK YOU

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