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Department of Physics

J.S.S. Academy of Technical Education , Noida


Session-2024-25 (Odd Sem), (BAS 101)
(Wave optics-Interference)
C101.3- Relate physical optics with its application in optical devices.

Conceptual Questions
1. What are the conditions of sustained interference?
2. Why a broad or extended source of light is necessary for observing colors in thin films?
3. Explain, why an excessively thin film seen in reflected white light appears perfectly
black?
4. Why a thick film shows no color in reflected light?
5. Why Newton’s rings are circular? Why centre of Newton’s rings appear dark?
6. Explain what will happen if a drop of water is introduced b/w lens and glass plate
7. Why air wedge fringes are straight? Compare their shape with newton’s rings
8. What will happen if the lens in Newton’s rings experiment is placed on silver glass plate
or a mirror?
9. What happens to the rings when the lens is slowly lifted?
10. How do we define a thin film?
11. How is coherence length related to the number of oscillations in a wave packet? also how
is it related to the bandwidth?
12. Why is a monochromatic wave more coherent than a polychromatic wave?
13. During interference from a white light source in a parallel thin film why are some colours
which are visible from reflected light are absent due to transmitted light
14. In newton’s rings what is the requirement of a 45 degree glass plate?Why is sometimes
the centre bright in Newton’s rings? What can be added to the air film to make the centre
bright

Numerical Problems
1. Light of wavelength 5893A0 is reflected at nearly normal incidence from a soap film of
refractive index 1.42. What is the least thickness of the film that will appear (i) black, (ii)
bright?
2. White light falls perpendicularly upon a film of soapy water whose thickness is 5×10-5cm
and whose index of refraction is 1.33. Which wavelength in the visible region will be
reflected most strongly?
3. White light is incident on a soap film at an angle sin-14/5 and the reflected light is observed
with a spectroscope. It is found that two consecutive dark bands correspond to wavelengths
6.1×10-5cm and 6×10-5cm. If the refractive index of the film be 4/3, calculate its thickness.
4. A film of refractive index µ is illuminated by white light at an angle of incidence i. In
reflected light two consecutive bright fringes of wavelengths λ1 and λ2 are found overlapping.
Show that the thickness of the film is

5. Light of wavelength 6000A0 is incident normally on a wedge shaped film of µ=1.35. The
fringes are formed to be 2mm apart from each others. Calculate the angle of wedge.
6. Two plane glass surfaces in contact along one edge are separated at the opposite edge by a
thin wire. If 20 interference fringes are observed b/w these edges in sodium light at normal
incidence, what is the thickness of wire? (λsodium= 5893A0)
7. Newton’s rings are observed in reflected light of wavelength 6000A0. The diameter of 10th
dark ring is 0.5cm. Find the radius of curvature of the lens and the thickness of the
corresponding air film.
8. Newton’s rings are observed in reflected light of wavelength 6000A0 with a liquid b/w the
plane and curved surface. If the diameter of the 6th bright ring is 3.1mm and the radius of
curvature of the curved surface is 1m, calculate the refractive index of the liquid.

9. In an arrangement for observing Newton’s ring with two different media between the glass
surfaces, the nth rings have diameters as 10: 7. Find the ratio of the refractive indices of the
two media.

10. Newton’s rings are observed in reflected light using light of wavelength 5890Å. The
radius of the convex surface of the lens is 100 cm. A liquid is put between curved
surface of lens and plate. The diameter of 10th ring is 4.2 m.m. Calculate the
refractive index of liquid when (a) ring is dark, and (b) ring is bright.

11. Light containing two wavelengths λ1 and λ2 falls normally on a Plano convex lens of radius of
curvature R resting on a glass plate. If nth dark ring due to λ1 coincides with (n+1)th dark ring
due to λ2, prove that the radius of the nth dark ring of λ1 is

12. Two plano-convex lenses, each of radius of curvature 100cm, are placed with their curved
surfaces in contact with each other. Newton’s rings are formed by using a light of
wavelength 6x10-5 cm. Find the distance between10th and 20th rings
Long Questions:

1. Discuss the phenomenon of interference of light due to reflected light from a


parallel thin film and find the condition of maxima and minima. Show that
interference patterns of reflected and transmitted monochromatic light are
complementary.

2. Discuss the formation of interference fringes in a thin wedge shaped film. Find the
expression for fringes width.

3. Give the theory of formation of Newton’s ring by reflected mono-chromatic light


and prove that in the reflected light the diameters of dark rings are proportional to
square roots of natural numbers. Explain briefly why Newton’s rings are circular.

4. Explain how with the help of Newton’s rings, the wavelength of sodium light and
refractive index of liquid is determined.
5. Show that the diameter Dn of the nth Newton’s ring, when two surfaces of radii
R1 and R2 are placed in contact, is given by the relation

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