Test on WAVE OPTICS - LEVEL EASY

Time 2 hrs.
Part A - Very Short Answer Questions 1 marks
Q1. Draw the shape of the refracted wavefront when a plane wavefront is incident on a
prism.
Q2. What change would you expect, if whole of Youngs double slit apparatus is dipped
into water?
Q3. State the conditions which must be satisfied for two light sources to be coherent.
Q4. How does the intensity of central maxima change, if the width of the slit is halved
in a single slit diffraction experiment?
Q5. The polarizing single angle of a medium is 600, what id the refractive index of the
medium?
Q6. In YDSE, what would happen to the intensity of the maxima and the minima, if the
size of the hole illuminating the two coherent source is gradually increased?
Q7. How does the angular separation between fringes in single-slit diffraction
experiment changes when the distance of separation between the slit and the screen is
doubled?
Q8. In what way is plane polarized light different from an unpolarized light?
Q9. How is a wavefront different from a ray?
Q10. State the essential condition for diffraction to take place.
Q11. State the essential condition for interference to take place.
Q12. In YDSE, two sources of equal intensity is used. If the intensity of maxima is I0,
what will be the intensity of each source?

Part B - Short Answer Questions 2 marks or 3 marks

Q1. Name one device for producing plane polarized light. Draw the graph showing the
variation of intensity of polarized light transmitted by an analyzer.
Q2. Using Huygens principle, prove that for reflection of light, the angle of incidence is
equal to angle of reflection.
Q3. How can one distinguish between an unpolarized and linearly polarized light beam
using polaroids?
Q4. State the postulates of Huygens wave theory. Draw the type of wavefront
corresponding to a beam of light
(a) Coming from a very far off source and
(b) Diverging from a point source.
Q5. Describe an experiment to show that light waves are transverse in nature.
Q6. In a single slit diffraction pattern, how does the angular width of central maxima
change, when
(a) Slit width is decreased.
(b) Distance between the slit and screen is increased and
(c) Light of smaller wavelength is used? Justify your answer in each case.
Q7. What will be the interference pattern obtained on screen if a source of white light
is used?

Part C - Long Answer Questions 5 marks

Q1. Derive an expression for fringe width in YDSE.


Q2. What is meant by diffraction of light? Draw a graph showing the relative intensity
distribution for a single slit diffraction pattern. Obtain an expression for the first
minimum of diffraction.
Q3. Two narrow slits are illuminated by a single monochromatic source. Name the
pattern obtained on the screen. One of the slits is now completely closed. What is the
name of pattern now obtained on screen? Draw the intensity pattern obtained in two
cases. Also, write difference between patterns obtained in two cases.
Q4. Draw the graph showing the variation of the intensity of transmitted light on the
angle of rotation between a polarizer and an analyzer. A ray of light is incident at an
angle of incidence ip on the surface of separation between air and a medium of
refractive index , such that the angle between reflected and the refracted light is 900.
Obtain the relation between ip and .

Part D - Numericals problems 3 marks

Q1. Yellow light of 6000 illuminates a single slit of width 10 4 m. Calculate
(a) The distance between the two dark lines on either side of the central maxima,
when the diffraction pattern is viewed on a screen kept 1.5 m away the slit and
(b) The angular width of the first diffraction maxima.
Q2. Light of wavelength 600 nm is incident normally on a slit of width 3mm. Calculate
the linear width of the central maxima on a screen kept 3m away from the slit.
Q3. Find the ratio of interference of two points P and Q on the screen in the YDSE
when the waves from the sources S1 and S2 have phase difference of
(a) /3 and
(b) /2.
Q4. In YDSE two slits are separated by 3mm distance and illuminated by light of
wavelength 480 nm. The screen is at 2m from the plane of the slits. Calculate the
separation between the 8th bright fringe and the 3rd fringe observed with respect to
central fringe.
Q5. A slit of width a is illuminated by a monochromatic light of wavelength 700 nm at
normal incidence. Calculate the value of a for position of
(a) First minima at an angle of diffraction of 300.
(b) First maxima at an angle of diffraction of 300.