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Different Cases in Young's Double Slit Experiment

SINGLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE
1. The Young’s experiment is performed with the lights of blue ( = 4360 Å) and green colour ( = 5460 Å). If
the distance of the 4th fringe from the centre is x, then
(A) x (Blue) = x (Green) (B) x (Blue) > x (Green).
x(Blue) 5460
(C) x (Blue) < x (Green) (D) 
x(Green) 4360
2. Two ideal slits S1 and S2 are at a distance d apart and illuminated by light of
wavelength  passing through an ideal source slit S placed on the line through S2 as
shown. The distance between the planes of slits and the source slit is D. A screen is
held at a distance D from the plane of the slits. The minimum value of d for which
there is darkness at O is
3D D
(A) (B) D (C) (D) 3D
2 2
3. A beam with wavelength  falls on a stack of partially reflecting planes with separation
d. The angle  that the beam should make with the planes so that the beams reflected
from successive planes may interfere constructively is
(where n = 1, 2, ......)

 n   n   n   n 
(A) sin 1   (B) tan 1   (C) sin 1   (D) cos 1  
 d   d   2d   2d 
4. White light may be considered to be a mixture of waves with  ranging between 3900 Å and 7800 Å. An oil
film of thickness 10,000 Å is examined normally by reflected light. If  = 1.4, then the film appears bright for
(A) 4308 Å, 5091 Å, 6222 Å (B) 4000 Å, 5091 Å, 5600 Å
(C) 4667 Å, 6222 Å, 7000 Å (D) 4000 Å, 4667 Å, 5600 Å, 7000 Å
5. A light of wavelength 5890 Å falls normally on a thin air film. The minimum thickness of the film such that
the film appears dark in reflected light
(A) 2.945  l0– 7 m (B) 3.945  l0– 7 m (C) 4.95  10–7 m (D) 1.945  10–7 m
6. What is the effect on Fresnel’s biprism experiment when the use of white light is made?
(A) Fringes are affected (B) Diffraction pattern is spread more
(C) Central fringe is white and all are coloured (D) None of these
7. In a biprism experiment, by using light of wavelength 5000 Å, 5 mm wide fringes are obtained on a screen 1.0
m away from the coherent sources. The separation between the two coherent sources is
(A) 1.0 mm (B) 0.1 mm (C) 0.05 mm (D) 0.01 mm
8. In Fresnel’s biprism ( = 1.5) experiment, the distance between source and biprism is 0.3 m and that between
biprism and screen is 0.7 m and angle of prism is 1°. The fringe width with light of wavelength 6000 Å will be
(A) 3 cm (B) 0.011 cm (C) 2 cm (D) 4 cm
MATCHING COLUMN TYPE
9. In Young’s double slit experiment, two slits are illuminated with separation between them as b. The screen is
at a distance d (>> b) from slits. At a point P on the screen directly in front of one of the slits, certain
wavelengths are missing. Match the options of the columns.
Column I Column II
(A) At P, wavelength (b2/d) is (P) missing
(B) At P, wavelength (b2/5d) is (Q) not missing
(C) Wavelength (2b2/3d) is missing at a point Q on screen which is at a distance (R) X1 = b
X, from central maxima
(D) The wavelength (2b2/3d) at a point on screen at some other distance (b/3) (S) 3b
X1 =
from central maxima. 4
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COMPREHENSION TYPE

For Problems 10-12

A point source S emits light of wavelength 600 nm. It is placed at a very small distance from a
flat reflecting mirror AB. Interface fringes as observed on the screen placed parallel to
reflecting surface at very large distance D from it. The ratio of minimum to maximum
intensities in the interference fringes formed near the point P is 1/6

10. What is the shape of interference fringes on the screen?

(A) elliptical (B) paraboloid (C) circular (D) none of these

11. What is the percentage intensity of the reflected light to the intensity of the reflected light to the intensity of
incident light?
(A) 49% (B) 64% (C) 81% (D) 36%

12. If the intensity of P corresponds to a maximum, calculate the minimum distance through which the reflecting
surface AB should be shifted so that intensity at P again becomes maximum.
(A) 150 nm (B) 300 nm (C) 450 nm (D) 575 nm

For Problems 13-15

In YDSE’s experiment performed in a medium of refractive index (4/3), a light of 60 nm

wavelength is falling on the slits having 0.45 mm separation. The lower slit S2 is covered by a
thin glass sheet of thickness 10.4 m and refractive index 1.5. The interference pattern is
observed on a screen placed 1.5 m from the slits as shown in the figure. Ignore dispersion.

13. Find the location of central maxima on y-axis.

(A) 5.37 mm (B) 4.33 mm (C) 3.78 mm (D) 3.15 mm

14. Find the light intensity of point O relative to maximum fringe intensity.
(A) 0.6 Imax (B) 0.75 Imax (C) 0.8 Imax (D) 0.9 Imax

15. If white light of range 400-700 nm has replaced 600 nm light, one of the wavelengths of light that forms
maxima exactly at point O will be:
(A) 650 nm (B) 625 nm (C) 550 nm (D) 605 nm

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ANSWER KEY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
C C C A A C B B - C D B B B A
9. (A)  P; (B)  P; (C)  R; (D)  P

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