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Wave Optics One Mark Questions

The document provides a list of one, two, three, and five mark questions related to the topics of wave optics, including Young's double slit experiment, interference, diffraction, polarization, and more. Some questions ask students to sketch patterns, calculate values, explain concepts, or derive equations. Overall, the questions assess students' understanding of key principles and abilities to apply concepts in wave optics.

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Wave Optics One Mark Questions

The document provides a list of one, two, three, and five mark questions related to the topics of wave optics, including Young's double slit experiment, interference, diffraction, polarization, and more. Some questions ask students to sketch patterns, calculate values, explain concepts, or derive equations. Overall, the questions assess students' understanding of key principles and abilities to apply concepts in wave optics.

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WAVE OPTICS

ONE MARK QUESTIONS

1. Sketch the variation of intensity of interference pattern in Young’s double slit experiment.
2. What is the ratio of fringe width of bright and dark fringes in Young’s double slit experiment?
3. What is the effect on interference fringes in Young’s double slit experiment if one slit is covered?
4. Bubbles of a colourless soap solution appear colored in sun light. Why?
5. What happens to the energy at destructive interference in interference pattern?

TWO MARK QUESTIONS

6. What will be the effect on interference fringes in Young’s double slit experiment if (i)
Monochromatic source is replaced by white light; (ii) Screen is moved away from the slit. Justify
your answer.
7. In Young’s experiment the width of the fringes obtained with light of wavelength 6000 A0 is 2mm.
What will be the fringe width if the apparatus is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 4/3?
8. Show that the maximum intensity in interference pattern is four times the intensity due to each slit.
9. In a single slit diffraction experiment, the width of the slit is made double the original width. How
does this affect the size and intensity of central diffraction band?
10. Draw the wave-front for a beam of light (i) coming from a convex lens when a point source is placed
at its focus (ii) divergent radially from a point source.
11. Determine the angular separation between the central maximum, and first order maximum of
diffraction pattern due to a single slit of width 0.25mm.
12. State two conditions for sustained interference of light. Draw the variation of intensity with position
in Young’s double slit experiment.

THREE MARK QUESTIONS

13. State Huygens principle. For reflection of plane wavefront at a plane reflecting surface, construct the
corresponding reflected wavefront. Using this diagram prove that angle of incidence is equal to
angle of reflection.
14. Two independent sources of light cannot be coherent. Why? Two coherent sources have intensities
in the ratio 25:16. Find the ratios of the intensities of maxima to minima after interference.
15. In a single slit diffraction experiment width of the slit is made double the original width. How does it
affect the size and intensity of central diffraction band. Explain. Draw a graph showing variation of
intensity with angle in single slit diffraction.
16. State Huygens’s principle. Deduce the laws of refraction on the basis of Huygens’s principle.
17. When two narrow slits 2mm apart are illuminated by a light of wavelength 5000 A0 the third minima
is measured to be 0.5mm from the central maxima on a screen. What is the distance of the screen
from the slit?
18. In Young’s double slit experiment when a source of light of wavelength 5000 A0 is used the fringe
width obtained is 0.6cm. If the distance between slit and screen is reduced to half what would be the
wavelength of source to get a 0.003 m wide fringes.
19. State the essential condition for diffraction of light to occur. The light of wavelength 600nm is
incident normally on a slit if width 3mm. calculate the linear width of central maximum when the
screen is 3m away from the slit.
FIVE MARK QUESTIONS

20. Explain the phenomenon of diffraction of light at a single slit. Show graphically the variation of
intensity with angle in the diffraction pattern.
21. What do you understand by polarization of light? What are plane of polarization and plane of
vibration? Explain polarization (i) by scattering (ii) by reflection.
22. Explain Young’s double slit experiment of interference of light waves. Calculate t5he path
difference between interfering waves and give conditions for maxima and minima. . Get the
expression for dark and bright fringes

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