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Grade 12 Physics Revision Worksheet: Waves and Diffraction

This document is a physics revision worksheet covering waves and diffraction. It contains 11 questions about key concepts such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude, velocity of waves, diffraction gratings, and the diffraction and interference of light. Students are tasked with defining terms, calculating values like wavelength and velocity given other parameters of waves, and analyzing how changing various aspects of experimental setups would affect diffraction and interference patterns.

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Grade 12 Physics Revision Worksheet: Waves and Diffraction

This document is a physics revision worksheet covering waves and diffraction. It contains 11 questions about key concepts such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude, velocity of waves, diffraction gratings, and the diffraction and interference of light. Students are tasked with defining terms, calculating values like wavelength and velocity given other parameters of waves, and analyzing how changing various aspects of experimental setups would affect diffraction and interference patterns.

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Grade 12 Physics revision worksheet

Waves and diffraction:

1- Define the following terms:


a. Progressive waves
b. Transverse wave
c. Longitudinal wave
d. Displacement
e. Amplitude
f. Phase difference
g. Period
h. Frequency
i. Wavelength
j. Diffraction
k. Diffraction grating

2- What is the velocity of a wave with wavelength 300mm and frequency 16 Hz?
3- A wave has a velocity of 2.5 m\s. Seven waves are observed to pass a fixed point in 40ms.
Find:
a. the period of the wave
b. the wavelength of the wave
4- determine the wavelength and amplitude
5- A cello string vibrates with a frequency of 64 Hz. Calculate the speed of the transverse
waves on the cello string given that the wavelength is 140 cm.
6- An oscillator is used to send a transverse wave along a stretched string. The wavelength of
the wave is 5.0 cm when the frequency of the oscillator is 30 Hz. For this wave, calculate
its speed
7- Monochromatic light is incident normally on a diffraction grating having 300 lines mm-1.
The angle between the zeroth-and first-order maxima is measured to be 10.0°. Calculate
the wavelength of the incident light.
8- For the case described in question number 7 , with λ = 580 nm, calculate the angle for the
second-order maximum.
b Repeat the calculation of 8 for n = 3, 4.
9- Consider the equation d sin = n.A. State and explain how the interference pattern would
change when:
a. the wavelength of the incident light is increased for the same grating
b. the grating is changed for one with more lines per cm for the same incident light.
10- One of the spectral lines from a hydrogen discharge lamp has a wavelength 656 nm.
This light is incident normally at diffraction grating with 5000 lines \cm.
11- A student is trying to make an accurate measurement of the wavelength of green light
from a mercury lamp. The wavelength λ of this light is 546 nm. Using a double-slit of
separation 0.50 mm, the student can see 10 clear bright fringes on a screen at a distance of
0.80 m from the slits. The student can measure their overall width to within ±1 mm using
a ruler. The student then tries an alternative experiment using a diffraction grating with
3000 lines cm-1. The angle between the two second-order maxima can be measured to
within ±0.1°. Determine the angle of the second-order maximum that the student can
measure in the second experiment.

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