Assignment 7

Wave Optics

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. State path difference between two waves for destructive interference.
2. How does the intensity of polarized light vary with angle between polarizer and
analyzer.
3. What are coherent sources of light?
4. What is the condition of first minima in case of diffraction due to single slit?
5. When the light incident at an angle of 600 on an interface with reflected ray is found
to be completely polarized. Find angle of polarization and refractive index of
medium.
6. The rays of light are converging to a point. What is shape of wave front?
7. In Young's double slit experiment the slits are 1.5 m from the screen. The width of
the fringes observed with a light of wavelength 6000 Ao is 1 mm. What is the
separation of the slits?
8. Consider interference between two sources of intensities I and 4I. Obtain intensity at
a point when the phase difference between two sources is (1) / 2 (2) (3) / 4.
9. Define wave front. Verify laws of reflection / refraction on the basis of Huygens
principle.
10. Explain single slit experiment with ray diagram.
11. The rays of light are converging to a point. What is shape of wave front?
12. Draw intensity variation curve w.r.t. path difference in case of interference and
diffraction. Give two differences between interference and diffraction of light?
13. Why no interference pattern is observed when two coherent sources are (1) infinitely
close to each other (2) far apart from each other?
14. A slit of width 'd' is illuminated by a light of wavelength 6500 A0. For what value of
'd' will the (1) first minimum fall at an angle of diffraction of 300 (2) first maximum
fall at an angle of diffraction of 300.
Ans: 13 x 10-7m and 19.5x 10-7m
15. In single slit experiment, how is the angular width of central bright maximum
changed, when (1) the slit width is decreased (2) the distance between the slit and
screen is increased (3) the light of smaller wavelength is used.
16. Two coherent sources of intensity ratio 81:1 produce interference fringes. Calculate
the ratio of intensity of maxima and minima in the fringes system.
17. What is the effect on the interference fringes in a Young's double slit experiment due
to each of following operations Give reason for your answer.
(1) White light is used in place of monochromatic light (2) separation between two
slits is increased (3) width of one slit is double than other (4) the path difference
of /2 is introduced between two wave initially (5) one of the slit is closed.
18. State Brewsters law. Draw relation between the angle of incidence and angle of
refraction.
19. Why is difficult to obtain interference in case of light waves?
20. Draw the refracted wave front if the parallel rays of light are allowed to fall on (i)
glass slab (ii) convex lens (iii) concave lens?