When light from a monochromatic source is incident on a single narrow slit, it gets diffracted and a pattern of alternate bright and dark fringes is obtained on screen, called "Diffraction Pattern" of single slit. In diffraction pattern of single slit, it is found that
(I) Central bright fringe is ·of maximum intensity and the intensity of any secondary bright fringe decreases with increase in its order.
(II) Central bright fringe is twice as wide as any other secondary bright or dark fringe .

(i) A single slit of width 0.1 mm is illuminated by a parallel beam of light of wavelength 6000 A and diffraction bands are observed on a screen 0.5 m from the slit. The distance of the third dark band from the central bright band is

(ii) In Fraunhofer diffraction pattern, slit width is 0.2 mm and screen is at 2 m away from the lens. If wavelength of light used is 5000 \(\lambda\) then the distance between the first minimum on either side the central maximum is

(iii) Light of wavelength 600 nm is incident normally on a slit of width 0.2 mm. The angular width of central maxima in the diffraction pattern is (measured from minimum to minimum)

(iv) A diffraction pattern is obtained by using a beam of red light. What will happen, if the red light is replaced by the blue light?

(v) To observe diffraction, the size of the obstacle

A narrow tube is bent in the form of a circle of radius R, as shown in figure. Two small holes S and D are made in the tube at the positions at right angle to each other. A source placed at S generates a wave of intensity Io which is equally divided into two parts: one part travels along the longer path, while the other travels along the shorter path. Both the waves meet at point D where a detector is placed.

(i) If a maxima is formed at a detector, then the magnitude of wavelength \(\lambda\) of the wave produced is given by

(ii) If the intensity ratio of two coherent sources used in Young's double slit experiment is 49 : 1, then the ratio between the maximum and minimum intensities in the interference pattern is

(iii) The maximum intensity produced at D is given by

(iv) In a Young's double slit experiment, the intensity at a point where the path difference is \(\lambda\)/6 (\(\lambda\) - wavelength of the light) is I. If I₀ denotes the maximum intensity, then I/I₀ is equal to

(v) Two identical light waves, propagating in the same direction, have a phase difference d. After they superpose the intensity of the resulting wave will be proportional to

Wavefront is a locus of points which vibratic in same phase. A ray of light is perpendicular to the wavefront. According to Huygens principle, each point of the wavefront is the source of a secondary disturbance and the wavelets connecting from these points spread out in all directions with the speed of wave. The figure shows a surface XY separating two transparent media, medium-1 and medium-2. The lines ab and cd represent wavefronts of a light wave travelling in medium- 1 and incident on XY. The lines ef and gh represent wavefronts of the light wave in medium -2 after refraction.

(i) Light travels as a

(ii) The phases of the light wave at c, d, e and f are \(\phi_{c}, \phi_{d}, \phi_{e}\) and \( \phi_{f}\) respectively. It is given that \(\phi_{c} \neq \phi_{f}\)

(iii) Wavefront is the locus of all points, where the particles of the medium vibrate with the same

(iv) A point source that emits waves uniformly in all directions, produces wavefronts that are

(v) What are the types of wavefronts ?

Huygen's principle is the basis of wave theory of light. Each point on a wavefront acts as a fresh source of new disturbance, called secondary waves or wavelets. The secondary wavelets spread out in all directions with the speed light in the given medium.An initially parallel cylindrical beam travels in a medium of refractive index \(\mu(I)=\mu_{0}+\mu_{2} I\), where \(\mu_{0} \text { and } \mu_{2}\)are positive constants and I is the intensity of the light beam. The intensity of the beam is decreasing with increasing radius.

(i) The initial shape of the wavefront of the beam is

(ii) According to Huygens Principle, the surface of constant phase is

(iii) As the beam enters the medium, it will

(iv) Two plane wavefronts of ligbt, one incident on a thin convex lens and another on the refracting face of a thin prism. After refraction at them, the emerging wavefronts respectively become

(v) Which of the following phenomena support the wave theory of light?
1. Scattering
2. Interference
3. Diffraction
4. Velocity of light in a denser medium is less than the velocity of light in the rarer medium

Interference is based on the superposition principle. According to this principle, at a particular point in the medium, the resultant displacement produced by a number of waves is the vector sum of the displacements produced by each of the waves. If two sodium lamps illuminate two pinholes S₁ and S₂. The intensities will add up and no interference fringes will be observed on the screen. Here the source undergoes abrupt phase change in times of the order of 10^-10 seconds.

(i) Two coherent sources of intensity 10 W/m² and 25 W/m² interfere to form fringes. Find the ratio of maximum intensity to minimum intensity

(ii) Which of the following does not show interference?

(iii) In a Young's double-slit experiment, the slit separation is doubled. To maintain the same fringe spacing on the screen, the screen-to-slit distance D must be changed to

(iv) The maximum number of possible interference maxima for slit separation equal to twice the wavelength in Young's double-slit experiment, is

(v) The resultant amplitude of a vibrating particle by the superposition of the two waves \(y_{1}=a \sin \left[\omega t+\frac{\pi}{3}\right] \text { and } y_{2}=a \sin \omega t \text { is }\)