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What is interference?

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Interference of light is defined as the modification in the intensity of light (larger at some places and smaller at some places) produced by the superposition of two or more light waves.

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अध्याय 7: Wave Optics - Long Answer

संबंधित प्रश्न

Laser light of wavelength 630 nm is incident on a pair of slits which are separated by 1.8 mm. If the screen is kept 80 cm away from the two slits, calculate:

1) fringe separation i.e. fringe width.

2) distance of 10th bright fringe from the centre of the interference pattern


When a drop of oil is spread on a water surface, it displays beautiful colours in daylight because of ______________ .


Four light waves are represented by

(i) \[y =  a_1   \sin  \omega t\]

(ii) \[y =  a_2   \sin  \left( \omega t + \epsilon \right)\]

(iii) \[y =  a_1   \sin  2\omega t\]

(iv) \[y =  a_2   \sin  2\left( \omega t + \epsilon \right).\]

Interference fringes may be observed due to superposition of

(a) (i) and (ii)

(b) (i) and (iii)

(c) (ii) and (iv)

(d) (iii) and (iv)


Answer in brief:

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.


A double-slit arrangement produces interference fringes for sodium light (λ = 589 nm) that are 0.20° apart. What is the angular fringe separation if the entire arrangement is immersed in water (n = 1.33)?


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?


What are coherent sources of light? 


Explain constructive and destructive interference with the help of a diagram?


What is interference of light?


Obtain the relation between phase difference and path difference.


How does wavefront division provide coherent sources?


Obtain the equation for resultant intensity due to interference of light.


The ratio of maximum and minimum intensities in an interference pattern is 36 : 1. What is the ratio of the amplitudes of the two interfering waves?


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 ______.


The light waves from two independent monochromatic light sources are given by, y1 = 2 sin ωt and y2 = 3 cos ωt. Then the correct statement is ____________.


In Young's experiment for the interference of light, the separation between the silts is d and the distance of the screen from the slits is D. If D is increased by 0.6% and d is decreased by 0.2%, then for the light of a given wavelength, which one of the following is true?

"The fringe width  ____________."


In Young's experiment, the distance between the slits is doubled and the distance between the slit and screen is reduced to half, then the fringe width ____________.


In a double slit experiment, the two slits are 2 mm apart and the screen is placed 1 m away. A monochromatic light of wavelength 500 nm is used. What will be the width of each slit for obtaining ten maxima of double slit within the central maxima of single slit pattern?


In a Young's experiment, two coherent sources are placed 0.60 mm apart and the fringes are observed one metre away. If it produces the second dark fringe at a distance of 1 mm from the central fringe, the wavelength of monochromatic light used would be ____________.


In a biprism experiment, red light of wavelength 6500 Å was used. It was then replaced by green light of wavelength 5200 Å. The value of n for which (n + 1)th green bright band would coincide with nth red bright band for the same setting is ______.


In a biprism experiment, monochromatic light of wavelength (λ) is used. The distance between two coherent sources is kept constant. If the distance between slit and eyepiece (D) is varied as D1, D2, D3, and D4, the corresponding measured fringe widths are z1, z2, z3, and z4 then ______ 


In the biprism experiment, a source of monochromatic light is used for a certain distance between slit and eyepiece. When the distance between two virtual sources is changed from dA to dB, then the fringe width is changed from ZA to ZB. The ratio ZA to ZB is ______


Light waves from two coherent sources arrive at two points on a screen with a path difference of zero and λ/2. The ratio of the intensities at the points is ______ 


A beam of electrons is used in Young's double-slit experiment. If the speed of electrons is increased then the fringe width will ______.


A ray of light AO in a vacuum is incident on a glass slab at an angle of 60° and refracted at an angle of 30° along OB as shown in the figure. The optical path length of the light ray from A to B is ______.


In a double-slit experiment, the optical path difference between the waves coming from two coherent sources at a point P on one side of the central bright is 7.5 µm and that at a point Q on the other side of the central bright fringe and 1.8 µm. How many bright and dark fringes are observed between points P and Q if the wavelength of light used is 600 nm?


Describe Young's double-slit interference experiment.


With a neat labelled ray diagram explain the use of Fresnel's biprism to obtain two coherent sources.


In biprism experiment, the distance of 20th bright band from the central bright band is 1.2 cm. Without changing the experimental set-up, the distance of 30th bright band from the central bright band will be ______.


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