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Assignment 3 - Interference and Diffraction

The document contains an assignment for Engineering Physics (NAS 102) for B. Tech. first semester students at the University of Lucknow. It includes short questions on topics such as interference, diffraction, and the properties of light, as well as long questions and numerical problems related to these concepts. Additionally, there are very long questions that delve deeper into the phenomena of light interference and diffraction.

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Assignment 3 - Interference and Diffraction

The document contains an assignment for Engineering Physics (NAS 102) for B. Tech. first semester students at the University of Lucknow. It includes short questions on topics such as interference, diffraction, and the properties of light, as well as long questions and numerical problems related to these concepts. Additionally, there are very long questions that delve deeper into the phenomena of light interference and diffraction.

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Faculty of Engineering, University of Lucknow

ASSIGNMENT - III
Engineering Physics- NAS 102
B. Tech. First Semester

SHORT QUESTIONS
1. Two independent sources could not produce interference, why?
2. Why does a soap bubble appear colored in sunlight?
3. Why the center of Newton’s ring is dark in reflected light?
4. In Newton’s ring experiment fringe width decreases with increase in order of the fringe. Explain
why?
5. Differentiate between Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction.
6. What will be the effect on intensity of principal maximum of diffraction pattern when single slit
is replaced by double slit?
7. What is grating element?
8. What is meant by missing order spectra? Under what situations certain orders in grating spectra
are missing?
9. What do you mean by dispersive power of a plane diffraction grating?
10. Define the limit of resolution and resolving power.
11. What is Rayleigh’s criterion of resolution?

LONG QUESTIONS/NUMERICALS
1. Discuss the interference in thin film due to reflected light. What happens when film is
excessively thin?
2. Newton’s rings are observed by keeping a spherical surface of 100 cm radius on a plane glass
plate. If the diameter of the 15th bright ring is 0.590 cm and the diameter of 5th ring is 0.336
cm, what is the wavelength of light used?
3. A parallel beam of sodium light λ = 5890 Å strikes a film of oil floating on water. When
viewed at an angle from the normal, 8th dark band is seen. Determine the thickness of
the film. mm
4. Explain briefly how the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern is modified when single slit is replaced
by a double slit arrangement (Derivation not required). A diffraction grating used at normal
incidence gives a yellow line (λ = 6000 Å) in a certain spectral order superimposed on a blue
line (λ = 4800 Å) of next higher order. If the angle of diffraction is calculate the
grating element.
5. A diffraction grating is just able to resolve two lines of wavelengths 5140.34 Å and 5140.85 Å
in the first order. Will it resolve the lines 8037.2 Å and 8037.5 Å in second order?

VERY LONG QUESTIONS


1. Discuss the phenomena of interference of light due to thin film. Show that the interference
patterns of reflected and transmitted monochromatic light are complementary.
2. What are Newton’s rings? Prove that in reflected light diameters of the bright rings are
proportional to the square root of odd natural numbers.
3. Discuss the phenomena of Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit and show that the relative
intensities of successive maxima are nearly

4. Give Rayleigh Criterion for just resolution. Find an expression for resolving power of plane
diffraction grating.

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