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Class: 12
Subject: Physics
Bank Worksheet Number: 12/Phy/10/QB1
Chapter: 10–Wave Optics

Section A
Each question carries 1 mark:
1. Define the term ‘wavefront’. What is the phase difference between two points on a wavefront?
2. What kind of wavefront is generated by candle light glowing in a dark room?
3. Sketch the variation of intensity of the interference pattern in Young’s double slit experiment.
4. What type of wavefront will emerge from (i) a point source and (ii) distant source of light?
5. Sketch the refracted wavefront emerging from a convex lens if a plane wavefront is incident
normally on it.
6. Give the ratio of velocities of light rays of wavelengths 4000 Ǻ and 8000Ǻ in vacuum.
7. A plane wavefront is incident on a prism. Sketch the emergent wavefront.
8. What happens to the fringe pattern when the Young’s double slit experiment is performed in water
instead of air?
9. What happens to the wavelength when light travels from rarer medium to denser medium?
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10. What is meant by coherent sources of light? Can two identical andsame almost
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12. What are coherent sources of cylinder
light? Draw the variation of intensity with position, in the interference
pattern of Young’s double slit experiment.
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in the interference pattern of Young’s double slit experiment.
Explain blue shift and red shift.
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15. Two identical coherent waves, each of intensity I, are producing an interference pattern. Write the
value of the resultant intensity at a point of (i) constructive interference and (ii) destructive
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16. Light of wavelength 6000 Ao in vacuum passes through glass 41 of refractive index 1.5. What will be
the wavelength of the light in glass.
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How would the angular separation of interference fringes in Young’s double slit experiment change
when the distance between the slits and screen is doubled?
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18. A parallel beam of monochromatic light is incident on a glass slab at an angle of 45o. Calculate the
ratio of width of wavefront in glass to that in air is ( = 1.5 for glass).
19. The ratio of intensity of maxima and minima in an interference pattern is 100:64, Calculate the ratio
of intensities of the coherent sources producing this pattern.

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Laser light of wavelength 630nm incident on a pair of slits produces an interference pattern in which
the bright fringes are separated by 8.1mm. A second light produces an interference pattern in which
fringes are separated by 7.2mm. Calculate the wavelength of the second light.
21. Find the ratio of intensities of two points P and Q on a screen in Young’s double slit experiment
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when waves from sources S1 and S2 have phase difference of (i) and (ii) respectively.
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22. A star is moving towards the earth with a speed of 9 x 106 m/s. if the wavelength of a particular
spectral line emitted by it is 6000Ao, then find the apparent wavelength.
23. The spectral line in the spectrum of light from a star is found to be shifted by 0.032% from its
normal position towards the red end of the spectrum. Compute the velocity of the star.
24. In Young’s experiment, two coherent sources are placed 0.90 mm apart and the fringes are observed
one meter away. If it produces the second dark fringe at a distance of 1mm from the central fringe,
what is the wavelength of the monochromatic light used?
25. What is the effect on the interference fringes in Young’s double slit experiment if (i) the separation
between the slits is halved, and (ii) the screen is moved closer to the double slit? Justify your
answer.
26. Two waves having amplitudes in the ratio 5 : 1 produce interference. Calculate the ratio of the
maximum to minimum intensity.
27. State the conditions for obtaining sustained interference of light from different sources. The ratio of
intensities of maxima and minima in an interference pattern is found to be 25 : 9. Calculate the ratio
of light intensities of the sources producing this pattern.
28. What are coherent sources? How does the width of interference fringes in young’s double slit
experiment change when
a) the distance between the slits and screen is decreased?
b) Frequency of the source in increased? Justify your answer in each case.
c) if the apparatus is immersed in water?
29. In Young’s double slit experiment, explain with reason what happens to the interference fringes
when i) width of the slit increased ii) monochromatic light source is replaced by a white source
and iii) one of the silt is closed.
30. State the postulates of Huygens’ wave theory. Sketch the wavefront that corresponds to a beam of
light (i) coming from a very far away source, and (ii) diverging radially from a point source.
31. In Young’s double slit experiment, the intensity of light at a point on the screen where the path
difference is  is K unit. The intensity at a point where the path difference is /4 will be?
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32. In Young’s experiment, interference fringes are observed on a screen, kept at D from the slits. If the
screen is moved towards the slits by 50 x 10-2m, the change in fringe width is found to be 3 x 10-5m.
If the separation between slits is 10-3m, calculate the wavelength of the light used.
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State two condition to obtain sustained interference of light. In Young’s double slit experiment,
using light of wavelength 400nm, interference fringes of width ‘X’ are obtained. The wavelength of
light is increased to 600 nm and the separation between the slits is halved. If one wants the observed
fringe width on the screen to be the same in the two cases, find the ratio of the distance between the
screen and the plane of the interfering sources in the two arrangements.
35. What is meant by interference of light? In a double slit experiment with monochromatic light,
fringes are obtained on a screen placed at some distance from the slits. If the screen is moved by
5x10-2 m towards the slits, the change in fringe width is 3 x 10-5m. if the distance between slits is 10-
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m. Calculate the wavelength of the light used.
36. Why is interference pattern not detected when two coherent sources are far apart? LB
In young’s double slit experiment the width of the fringes obtained with light of wavelength 6000A o
is 2 mm. Calculate the fringe width if the entire apparatus is immersed in a liquid medium of
refractive index 1.33.
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In young’s double slit experiment three lights of blue, yellow and red colour are used successively.
The fringe width will be maximum for which colour of light and why?
In young’s experiment two coherent sources are 1.5mm apart and fringes are obtained at a distance
of 2.5m from them. If the wavelength of the light is 600nm, find the number of fringes in the
interference pattern, which is 5 mm wide.
38. What are coherent sources of light? In Young’s double slit experiment, two slits are separated by

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3mm distance and illuminated by light of wavelength 480nm. The screen is at 2m from the plane of
the slits. Calculate the separation between the 8th bright fringe and the 3rd dark fringe observed with
respect to the central bright fringe.
39. In young’s double slit experiment, the two slits 0.12 mm apart are illuminated by monochromatic
light of wavelength 420 nm. The screen is 1 m away from the slits. i) find the distance of the second
a) bright fringe b) dark fringe from the central maximum. ii) how will the fringe pattern change if
the screen is moved away from the slits?
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of slits and produces an interference pattern in which two consecutive bright fringes are separated
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41. Explain, using Huygens’ principle, how is illuminated by a monochromatic light. Show that central
maximum is twice as wide as the other maxima and the pattern becomes narrower as the width of
the slit is increased.
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Two narrow slits are illuminated by a single monochromatic source. Name the pattern obtained on
the screen. One of the slits is now completely covered. What is the name of the pattern now obtained
on the screen? Draw intensity pattern obtained in two cases. Also write two differences between the
patterns obtained in the above two cases.
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Using Huygen’s principle, explain the refraction of a plane wave front at a plane surface. Hence
prove that Snell’s law.
44. What is wavefront? What is the geometrical shape of a wavefront of light emerging out of convex
lens, when point source is placed at its focus? Using Huygen’s principle show that for a parallel
beam incident on a reflecting surface, the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence.
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46. State Huygens’s principle. For reflection of a plane wavefront at a plane reflecting surface, construct
the corresponding reflected wavefront. Using this diagram, prove that angle of incidence is equal to
the angle of reflection.
47. Show graphically the intensity distribution of a single slit diffraction pattern. State with reason, how
would the linear width of central maximum change if (i) monochromatic yellow light is replaced
with red light, and (ii) distance between the slit and the screen is increased.
48. Verify Snell’s law of refraction using Huygens’ wave theory.
49. What is interference of light? Write two essential conditions for sustained interference pattern to be
produced on the Screen. Draw a graph showing the variation of intensity versus the position on the
screen in Young’s experiment when (a) both the slits are opened and (b) one of the slits is closed.
What is the effect on the interference pattern in Young’s double slit experiment when: (i) screen is
moved closer to the plane of slits? (ii) separation between two slits in increased Explain your
answer in each case.
50. What are coherent sources of light? State two conditions for two light sources to be coherent. Derive
a mathematical expression for the width of interference fringes obtained in Young’s double slit
experiment with the help of a suitable diagram.
51. a) What are coherent sources of light? Two slits in young’s double slit experiment are illuminated
by two different sodium lamps emitting light of the same wavelength. Why is no interference pattern
observed? b) Obtain the condition for getting dark and bright fringes in young’s experiment. Hence
write the expression for the fringe width.
c) If s is the size of the source and d its distance from the plane of the two slits. What should be the
criteria for the interference fringes to be seen?
52. a) Two monochromatic waves emanating from two coherent sources have the displacements
represented by y1 = a cos t and y2 = a cos (t + ),
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where  is the phase difference between the two displacements. Show that the resultant intensity at a
point due to their superposition is given by I = 4 I0 cos2/2, where I0 = a2.
b) Hence obtain the conditions for constructive and destruction interference.
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