Answers and Explanations

1. (c)Sound waves are

longitudinal and cannot
6. (d)
travel through vacuum. Light waves are transverse
Speed of light in glass plate, D =
and can travel through vacuum.
Time taken light to traverse thickness t of the
2.Huygens' construction of wavefront glass
cannot plate,
explain origin of spectra which can be explained on the
basis of quantum theory.
c/ C
3. () Velocity of light in the medium,
medv=2 x 10x 5000x10 =10 ms 7. (c) 3x 10
H3/2
H vac-3x108
1 0 83 . 2x10 ms
med
t 4x10-3
4(b) When light travels from air into water, only its 2x10 108
requency remains unchanged.
5. = 2x1 0 1 s .
(d) Frequency n remains same

o r med 8. (a) 2:1.

med a2
9. (C) Interference is
med
=
possible both in light and
med Sound waves.
 18. (b) In Fresnel biprism experiment, the actual
10. (b) r =
distance of separation between the two slits,

d= 4,4,=v169-12 cm.
19. (a) Colours appear on a thin soap filrn and sra
max. = 9:4.
bubbles due to the phenomenon of interterence.
min
observed if the wave.
20. (c) The particle can be best
is of the order of its size.
11. () Path difference à implies a maximum, so length of the em wave used
may k So the required frequency,

(1 27 31010 Hz.
I= Imax cos5=kcos|T4)
21. (c)
v310
For first minimum, asin6 =i
= k cos
:(
12. (d) Refractive index of air (1.00029) is slightly
sin = S00010 =05
10
0.001x

evacuated chamber, or 30°.

greater than that of vacuum (1). In
So fringe 22. (d) Linear width of central maximum
the wavelength light slightly increases.
of
D2_2D
width will increase slightly, because B o
Dx Angular width
=

13. (a) Fringe width, Bc7. difference

23. (d)For first minimum, the path
difference between 4
As blue yellow between A and C is , so the path
difference is z
and B is ./2. Hence, the phase
So Pblueyellow
0.4 mm
0.3 mnm.
14.(a)F 4/3
Ar
15. (d) For nth dark fringe,
D Br
(2n-1) 2d
1xa
cp=
103 (2x2-x0.9x 10
order dark fringes
24. (d) Distance between the first
or = 6x10m 6x 10 cm.
= Width of centraB maximum
16. (c) For 4th bright fringe, 2D2x2 x600x10
m

X=4 ie, a 1x10

24 x10m 2.4 mm.

As (blue) <à (green) maximum in double siit
25. (d) Angular width of a

r{blue) <x (green).

pattern
17. (b) -
D
slt
Angular width of central maximum in single
For constant x, d andD; n,' = n22 pattern
1 ' 2 120006 23 a
10000 5

-5x12000x 10-10x2 Given, 10x=24

" 2x 1073
d

6x 10m =6 mm.
 h
26. (c) For electrons, 2 =-" ad 5000x 10-x 50
x =
D 2x103
Angular width of central maximum, - 12.5x 10m = 1.25 cm.

e22h de
1.22
mva 29. (c)
D
As v increases, 0 decreases. 1.22x 5000 x 10-10
27. (c) If x is the distance between two objects and d 0.10

is the distance between the telescope and the two 6.1x 10* rad » 10 rad.
objects, then 30. (d) Sound waves, being longitudinal cannot be
polarised. Light waves can be polarised because they
de= 1.22
d0 D are transverse.
31. (a) According to Snell's law
1.22 d
or
D sinsin sin(90°-)_cosr =

sini sinr sinr tanr

1.22 x 5000 x 10x1000
m =r,T+r =909
0.10 1
Also,
= 6.1x 107 m»5 mm.
sin
28. (c) Limit of resolution of the eyelens is sini, tanr

d D or isintan(r).