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School/ Department: SOET Tutorial sheet no:1
Class: B.Tech First Year (ECE,CSE &CV) Semester: First
Subject Name:Engineering Physics
Subject Code: PYL150
Unit/ Title: Interference
Learning Objectives: To make students understand the important concept of Optics: Interference and its technological
applications.
Learning Outcome: Students will have in-depth knowledge of interference through theory and experiments for research and
technological innovations.
EXERCISE
1. What is Interference of light?
2. Is there any conservation of energy in the phenomenon of Interference? Explain.
3. What are the conditions to get a good interference pattern?
4. Explain why two independent sources can never be coherent?
5. What are the conditions for minima and maxima in an interference pattern?
6. Name two broad methods for production of coherent sources.
7. What is a Fresnel Biprism? How will you determine wavelength of light using Fresnel biprism method.
8. What is the effect on interference pattern when monochromatic light in Fresnel biprism is replaced by white light?
9. Why does the center of Newton’s ring appear dark in reflected light?
10. What change would you expect in interference pattern of Newton’s rings, if a plane mirror replaces the transparent plate
below the lens?
11. Explain the terms: fringes of equal thickness and fringes of equal inclination.
12. Describe Newton’s ring experiment for measuring the wavelength of monochromatic light and give the necessary theory.
What will happen if a little water is introduced between the lens and the plate?
13. What are Newton’s rings? Describe and explain the formation of Newton’s rings in reflected monochromatic light.
14. What are the applications of high reflection and anti-reflection coatings?
15. What is the purpose of glass plate incline at 450 in Newtons ring experiment?
16. Find the ratio of intensity at the center of a bright fringe in an interference pattern to the intensity at a point one-quarter of the
distance between two fringes from the center.
17. Two coherent sources whose intensity ratio is 81: 1 produce interference fringes. Deduce the ratio of maximum to minimum
intensity of the fringe system.
18. In an interference pattern at a point we observe the 12th order maximum for 1=600 nm. What order wills visible here if the
source were replaced by the light of wavelength 2=480 nm?
19. A thin soap film =1.33 seen by sodium light (= 5893 Å) by normal reflection appears dark. Find the minimum thickness of
the film.
20. Fresnel’s biprism fringes are produced with homogeneous light of wavelength 610-5 cm. A thin glass film (=1.5) is
interposed in the path of one of the interfering beams. The central bright band is shifted to the position previously occupied
by the fifth bright fringe. Find the thickness of the film.
21. If fringe width with wavelength of light 5.8910-5 cm is 0.431 mm. and shift of white central fringe on introducing a mica
sheet in one path is 1.89 mm, calculate the thickness of the mica sheet. (=1.591)
22. Newton’s rings arrangement the diameter of nth and (n+1) th rings are 4.2 mm and 7 mm respectively. Radius of curvature of
plano-convex lens is 1 m. Calculate the wavelength of light.
23. In an arrangement of Newton’s Rings, the diameter with two different media between the glass surfaces, the nth rings have
diameter as 10:7. Find the ratio of the refractive indices of two media.
24. In a Newton’s Rings experiment the diameter of 5 th dark ring is reduced to half of its value after introducing a liquid below
the convex surface. Calculate the refractive index of liquid.
25. In a Michelson’s Interferometer 200 fringes cross the field of view when the movable mirror is displaced through 0.0589 mm.
Calculate the wavelength of monochromatic light used.
26. A source of light emits two wavelengths 1=5896Å and 2=5890Å. Interference fringes are observed with a certain
arrangement when the path of interfering beams is exactly equal. How much will the path difference have to be increased so
that a bright fringe for 1 coincides with a dark fringe for 2.
27. A transparent film of glass of refractive index 1.50 is introduced normally in the path of one of the interfering beams of a
Michelson’s Interferometer which is illuminated with a light of wavelength 4800 Å. This causes 500 dark fringes to sweep
across the field. Determine the thickness of the film.
28. Explain principle of antireflection coatings? What is the difference between high reflection and anti reflection coatings? What
are the applications of antireflection coatings?
29. Calculate the thickness of antireflection coatings of a material with refractive index 1.3 on a glass (n = 1.5) in air for
wavelength 6000.
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30. Two beams of coherent light travel different paths arriving at point P.  If the maximum constructive interference is to occur at
point P, the two beams must
          a.   arrive 180ø out of phase.  b.   arrive 90ø out of phase.  c.   travel paths that differ by a whole number of
wavelengths.  d.   travel paths that differ by an odd number of half-wavelengths.
31. A film is said to be thin if its thickness is
a. Much smaller than wavelength of light. b. Comparable to one wavelength of light
c. of the order of nanometer(10-9m) d. of the order of picometer(10-10m).
32. Interference in thin film is mainly because of
a. Division of amplitude b. division of wavefront
c. addition of amplitude d. addition of wavefront
Newtons ring experiment is performed and radius of the ring is calculated. Now planoconvex lens is replaced with another
planoconvex lens of greater radius of curvature. What will be the effect on the radius of the rings?

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