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प्रश्न
What is interference of light?
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उत्तर
The phenomenon of addition or superposition of two light waves which produces increase in intensity at some points and a decrease in intensity at some other points is called interference of light.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How does the angular separation between fringes in single-slit diffraction experiment change when the distance of separation between the slit screens is doubled?
A long narrow horizontal slit is paced 1 mm above a horizontal plane mirror. The interference between the light coming directly from the slit and that after reflection is seen on a screen 1.0 m away from the slit. Find the fringe-width if the light used has a wavelength of 700 nm.
Why are multiple colours observed over a thin film of oil floating on water? Explain with the help of a diagram.
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In Young's double-slit experiment what will we observe on the screen when white light is incident on the slits but one slit is covered with a red filter and the other with a violet filter? Give reasons for your answer.
The intensity of the light coming from one of the slits in Young's experiment is twice the intensity of the light coming from the other slit. What will be the approximate ratio of the intensities of the bright and dark fringes in the resulting interference pattern?
Draw a neat labelled ray diagram of the Fresnel Biprism experiment showing the region of interference.
Obtain the relation between phase difference and path difference.
How do source and images behave as coherent sources?
Light of wavelength 600 nm that falls on a pair of slits producing interference pattern on a screen in which the bright fringes are separated by 7.2 mm. What must be the wavelength of another light which produces bright fringes separated by 8.1 mm with the same apparatus?
In Young's double-slit experiment, if the width of the 2nd bright fringe is 4 x 10-2 cm, then the width of the 4th bright fringe will be ______ cm.
A metal rod has length, cross-sectional area and Young's modulus as L, A and Y, respectively. If the elongation in the rod produced is l, then work done is proportional to ______.
On a rainy day, a small oil film on water shows brilliant colours. This is due to ____________.
Two sources of light 0.5 mm apart are placed at a distance of 2.4 m and wavelength of light is 5000 Å. The phase difference between the two light waves interfering on the screen at a point at a distance 3 mm from central bright band is ____________.
In interference experiment, intensity at a point is `(1/4)^"th"` of the maximum intensity. The angular position of this point is at (sin30° = cos60° = 0.5, `lambda` = wavelength of light, d = slit width) ____________.
Two coherent light sources of intensity ratio 'n' are employed in an interference experiment. The ratio of the intensities of the maxima and minima in the interference pattern is (I1 > I2).
In biprism experiment, the 4th dark band is formed opposite to one of the slits. The wavelength of light used is ______.
In a biprism experiment, the slit separation is 1 mm. Using monochromatic light of wavelength 5000 Å, an interference pattern is obtained on the screen. Where should the screen be moved? so that the change in fringe width is 12.5 x 105 m?
A beam of electrons is used in Young's double-slit experiment. If the speed of electrons is increased then the fringe width will ______.
Describe Young's double-slit interference experiment.
