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Module II: Interference


Part II: Interference by division of amplitude
Date of Issue: Last date of submission:

Uniform Thickness Film


1. Calculate the thickness of a soap film (µ=1.463) resulting in a bright band in the reflected
light if the light of 600 nm wavelength is thrown normally on the film.
2. Light of wavelength 632.8 nm is reflected at normal incidence from a soap film of
refractive index 1.4. Calculate the minimum thickness of the film that will appear bright
and dark.
3. A parallel beam of sodium light (λ=5890 Å) strikes a film of oil floating on water. When
viewed at an angle of 300 from the normal, 8th dark band is seen. Determine the thickness
of the film. (Refractive index of oil = 1.46).

4. A soap film (n = 1.33) is 375 nm thick and is surrounded on both sides by air. Sunlight
(wavelength range 380 nm to 750 nm) strikes the film nearly perpendicularly. For which
wavelength(s) in this range does constructive interference cause the film to look bright in
reflected light?
Wedge Shaped Film
5. What is the main difference you have studied in the kind of interference patterns obtained
from a uniform thickness film and a wedge shaped film.
6. A wedge-shaped film formed at an angle of 30” (30 sec) is illuminated by light of
wavelength 589.3 nm. Find the separation between two consecutive fringes.
7. Two flat glass plates are brought in contact along an edge are separated at the opposite
edge by a thin wire. If 10 interference fringes can be observed between those edges in
He-Ne light (λ=632.8 nm) at normal incidence, then what will be the wire’s thickness?
(Draw a rough diagram also)

8. Two plane glass plates are placed on top of one another and on one side a paper is
introduced to form a thin wedge of air. Assuming that a beam of wavelength 600 nm is
incident normally, and that there are 100 interference fringes per cm, calculate the wedge
angle.
9. Interference fringes are formed from a wedge shaped thin film of refractive index 1.4 and
of angle 10’’. On viewing the film, normally, the distance between two successive fringes
is found to be 0.50 cm, calculate the wavelength of light.
Newton’s Rings
10. In a Newton’s ring experiment, the radius of 10 th and 20th rings is 0.2 and 0.3 cm,
respectively. Calculate the wavelength of light if the focal length of the plano-convex
lens used is 80 cm.
11. In Newton’s ring experiment, what is the order of the ring, whose diameter is double of
the diameter of the 25th ring?
12. A thin planoconvex lens of focal length 1.8 m and of refractive index 1.6 is used to obtain
the Newton’s rings. The wavelength of light used is 589 nm. Calculate the radius of 10 th
dark ring in, (a) reflection, (b) transmission mode.
13. In a Newton’s ring experiment, the diameter of 5 th dark ring changes from 1.40 cm to
1.21 cm when a liquid if introduced between the lens and plate. Calculate the refractive
index of that liquid.
14. In Newton’s ring experiment, the diameters of the 4 th and 12th dark rings are respectively
0.420 and 0.726 cm. If the radius of curvature of the plano-convex lens is 225 cm, (a)
what is the wavelength of the light used? (b) What will be the diameter of 20 th ring? (c)
What will be the radius of the fourth dark ring obtained with the same wavelength while
the medium between the plano-convex lens and the glass plate is water (µ=1.33)?

15. In a Newton’s ring arrangement, light consisting of wavelengths λ 1 and λ 2 incidents


normally on a plane convex lens of radius of curvature R resting on a glass plate. If the

nth dark ring due to λ 1 coincides with (n+1)th dark ring due to λ 2 , then show that the

√
λ 1 λ2 R

radius of the nth dark ring of λ 1 is given by ( λ1 −λ 2 ) .


Michelson’s Interferometer
16. In Michelson Interferometer 100 fringes cross the field of view when the movable mirror
is displaced through 0.02945 mm. Calculate the wavelength of the light source used.
17. A Michelson’s interferometer is set to form circular fringes with light of wavelength 500
nm. By changing path length of movable mirror slowly 50 fringes cross the centre of
view. How much path length has been changed?
18. In laser Michelson’s interferometer, when a transparent thin glass plate of refractive
index 1.5 is introduced in the path of one of the beams, 100 fringes cross the field of view
at given point. If the wavelength of laser used is 6328 Å, find the thickness of the plate.

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