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PHYSICS (P-OB)
Syllabus:Wave Optics
Choose the correct answer. (3) Statement A & B both are incorrect
1. Who gave the corpuscular model of light and (4) Statement A & B both are correct
derived Snell's law? 6. "At a particular point in the medium, the resultant
(1) Newton (2) Descartes displacement produced by a number of waves is
(3) Huygens (4) Thomas young the vector sum of the displacements produced by
2. Which of the following statement is correct about each of the waves".
wave front? Above statement is in accordance with the
(1) Wave front may be defined as a surface of (1) Law of conservation of energy
constant phase (2) Principle of superposition
(2) It is the locus of points which oscillates in (3) Concept of secondary wavelets
same phase (4) Snell's law
(3) The speed with which the wave front moves . For what distance is ray optics a good
outwards from the source is called the speed approximation when the aperture is 4mm wide
of the wave and the wavelength is 450 nm?
(4) All of the above (1) 68.7 m (2) 42.7 m

When a wave gets refracted in to a denser (3) 35.5 m (4) 58.8 m

3.
medium then which of the following property of 3. Consider the following two statements
Statement-A: A polaroid consists of long chain
wave remains unchanged?
(2) Wavelength molecules aligned in a particular
(1) Speed
(4) All of these direction which is known as pass
(3) Frequency
A. A galaxy is moving with speed v away from us so axis of the polaroid.
Statement-B: When unpolarised light falls on
that the light at 682 nm is observed at 682.4 nm.
Value of v is nearly equal to polaroid then electric field vectors,
(2) 523 km/s associated with the propagating
(1) 486 km/s
(4) 324 km/s light, along the pass axis gets
(3) 176 km/s
5. Consider the following two statements absorbed.
Statement A: In the wave picture of light, Which of the following option is true?
intensity of light is determined by (1) Statement A is correct while statement B is
the square of the amplitude of the incorect
wave. (2) Statement B is correct while statement A is
Statement B: For a given frequency, intensity of incorrect
(3) Statement A & B both are incorrect
light in the photon picture is
determined by the number of (4) Statement A & B both are correct
photons crossing a unit area per 9 In Young's double slit experiment using
unit time. monochromatic light of wavelengthAthe intensity
Which of the following option is correct? of light at a point on the screen where path
difference ishis y units.Intensity of light at a point
(1) Statement A is correct while statement B is
incorrect on screen where path difference is a/2 will be

(2) Statement B is correct while statement A is (1) y/2 unit (2) 2 y/3 unit
incorrect
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 (3) 3 y/2 unit (4) Zero unit
10. Unpolarised light is incident on a plane 16. Which of the following statement is correct?
transparent medium. If the reflected and (1) Shape of wave front for light diverging from a

refracted rays are perpendicular to each other, point source is spherical

then what should be the value of angle of (2) Shape of wave front for light emerging out of
incidence for this to happen? [uof medium = 7/5] a convex lens when a point source is placed

(1) 37 (2) 45 at its focus, is plane

(3) The portion of the wave front of light, from a
(3) 54.4 4) 30
11. Two polaroids P& P2are arranged in a line such distant star intercepted by the earth,
that their pass axis are at angle of 53° with each ishyperbolic
other. If unpolarised light of intensity lo is incident (4) Both (1) and (2)
on polarold P then intensity of light passing from 17. Consider the following two statements.
Statement-A: The principle of superposition of
polaroid P2 will be
waves does not apply when more
(1) (2) than two sources of light illuminate
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the same point.
(4) 9 Statement-B: Natural light e.g., from the sun is
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polarised.
12. In a Young's double slit experiment, the slits are Which of the following option is correct?
separated by 0.38 mm and the screen is placed A is correct while statement B is
(1) Statement
1.5 m away. The distance between the central
incorrect
bright fringe and the fourthorder bright fringe is
(2) Statement B is correct while statement A is
measured be 1.4 cm. Wavelength of the light incorrect
used in the experiment is
(1) 3355 A (2) 9977 A (3) Statement A & B both are incorrect
(4) Statement A & B both are correct
(3) 8866 A (4) 4466A 18. A light beam is viewed through a rotating
13. Assume that light of wavelength 7500 A is
coming from a star. What is the limit of resolution
analyser. One sees a maximum and a minimum
of intensity but not complete darkness. Incoming
of a telescope whose objective has a diameter of light beam should be
150 inch?(1 inch 2.54 cm) (1) Unpolarised light beam
(1) 0.8 x 10 rad (2) 2.4x 10 rad beam
(3) 3.2 x 10 rad (4) 1.8* 10 rad
(2) Completely plane polarised light
(3) Partially polarised light beam
14. Which of the following statement is correct? (4) Can't say with certainty
(1) Most interference and diffraction effects exist 19. In the expression for resolving limit of a
for longitudinal as well as transverse waves
(2) Polarisation phenomenon are special to microscope min 1.221
2usinB the product usinß is
transverse waves only
(3) Refraction define the limits of ray optics also called
(1) Objective aperture (2) Fresnel distance
(4) Both (1) and (2)
(3) Numerical aperture (4) Limiting width
15. Light of wavelength 6000 A falls ón a plane
20. Which of the following can make use of
reflecting surface in vacuum. Frequency and
wavelength of the reflected light will be polaroids?
(1) Sunglasses
(1) 6000 A& 6 x104 Hz
(2) Windowpanes
(2) 6000 A & 5 x10" Hz
(3) 5000A &6 *1o Hz (3) Photographiccamera
(4) All of the above
(4) 5000 A & 5 *101 Hz

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