Assignment (Ray Otics)
Assignment (Ray Otics)
Assignment (Ray Otics)
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ASSIGNMENT (WAVE OPTICS)
Q.1- Write three characteristic features to distinguish between the interference fringes in
Young’s double slit experiment and the diffraction pattern obtained due to a narrow single slit.
(b) A parallel beam of light of wavelength 500 nm falls on a narrow slit and the resulting
diffraction pattern is observed on a screen 1 m away. It is observed that the first minimum is a
distance of 2.5 mm away from the centre. Find the width of the slit.
Q.2- (i) Distinguish between unpolarized and linearly polarised light.
(ii) What does a Polaroid consist of? How does it produce a linearly polarised light?
(iii) Explain briefly how sunlight is polarised by scattering through atmospheric particles.
Q.3- (a) Show, with the help of a diagram, how unpolarized sunlight gets polarised due to
scattering.
(b) Two Polaroids P1 and P2 are placed with their pass axes perpendicular to each other.
Unpolarised light of intensity I0 is incident on P1. A third Polaroid P3 is kept in between P1 andP2
such that its pass axis makes an angle of 45° with that of P1. Determine the intensity of light
transmitted through P1, P2 and P3 .
Q.4 (a) In Young’s double slit experiment, describe briefly how bright and dark fringes are
obtained on the screen kept in front of a double slit. Hence obtain the expression for the fringe
width.
(b) The ratio of the intensities at minima to the maxima in the Young’s double slit experiment is
9 : 25. Find the ratio of the widths of the two slits.
Q.5- Describe briefly how a diffraction pattern is obtained on a screen due to a single narrow
slit illuminated by a monochromatic source of light. Hence obtain the conditions for the angular
width of secondary maxima and secondary minima.
Q.6- Two wavelengths of sodium light of 590 nm and 596 nm are used in turn to study the
diffraction taking place at a single slit of aperture 2 × 10–6 m. The distance between the slit and
the screen is 1.5 m. Calculate the separation between the positions of first maxima of the
diffraction pattern obtained in the two cases.
Q.7- (i) ‘Two independent monochromatic sources of light cannot produce a sustained
interference pattern’. Give reason.
(ii) Light waves each of amplitude “a” and frequency “𝜔”, emanating from two coherent
light sources superpose at a point. If the displacements due to these waves is given by
y1 = a cos 𝜔t and y2 = a cos (𝜔t + f) where f is the phase difference between the two,
obtain the expression for the resultant intensity at the point.
Q.8- In Young’s double slit experiment, the two slits 0×12 mm apart are illuminated by
monochromatic light of wavelength 420 nm. The screen is 1×0 m away from this slits.
(a) Find the distance of the second (i) bright fringe, (ii) dark fringe from the central maximum.
(b) How will the fringe pattern change if the screen is moved away from ths slits?