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What is interference? - Physics

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What is interference?

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Interference of light is defined as the modification in the intensity of light (larger at some places and smaller at some places) produced by the superposition of two or more light waves.

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पाठ 7: Wave Optics - Long Answer

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Write the important characteristic features by which the interference can be distinguished from the observed diffraction pattern.


Write the necessary conditions to obtain sustained interference fringes.


How does the angular separation between fringes in single-slit diffraction experiment change when the distance of separation between the slit screens is doubled?


A long narrow horizontal slit is paced 1 mm above a horizontal plane mirror. The interference between the light coming directly from the slit and that after reflection is seen on a screen 1.0 m away from the slit. If the mirror reflects only 64% of the light energy falling on it, what will be the ratio of the maximum to the minimum intensity in the interference pattern observed on the screen?


The intensity at the central maximum (O) in a Young’s double slit experimental set-up shown in the figure is IO. If the distance OP equals one-third of the fringe width of the pattern, show that the intensity at point P, would equal `(I_0)/4`.


In Young’s double slit experiment, the slits are separated by 0.5 mm and screen is placed 1.0 m away  from the slit. It is found that the 5th bright fringe is at a distance of 4.13 mm from the 2nd dark fringe.  Find the wavelength of light used.  


Answer in brief:

What is meant by coherent sources?


Answer in brief:

In Young's double-slit experiment what will we observe on the screen when white light is incident on the slits but one slit is covered with a red filter and the other with a violet filter? Give reasons for your answer.


Draw a neat labelled ray diagram of the Fresnel Biprism experiment showing the region of interference. 


What is interference of light?


Obtain the relation between phase difference and path difference.


Obtain the equation for resultant intensity due to interference of light.


In Young's double-slit experiment, if the width of the 2nd bright fringe is 4 x 10-2 cm, then the width of the 4th bright fringe will be ______ cm.


In a Young's double-slit experiment, the intensity at a point where the path difference is `lambda/3` (`lambda` being the wavelength of the light used) is I. If I0 denotes the maximum intensity, then `"I"/"I"_0` is equal to ______.


In Young's experiment, the distance between the slits is doubled and the distance between the slit and screen is reduced to half, then the fringe width ____________.


In Young's double slit experiment with a source of light of wavelength 5860 Å, the first maxima will occur when ____________.


In Young's double slit experiment fifth dark fringe is formed opposite to one of the slits. If D is the distance between the slits and the screen and d is the separation between the slits, then the wavelength of light used is ______.


The phenomenon of interference is based on ______.


In a biprism experiment, red light of wavelength 6500 Å was used. It was then replaced by green light of wavelength 5200 Å. The value of n for which (n + 1)th green bright band would coincide with nth red bright band for the same setting is ______.


If the two slits in Young's double slit experiment have width ratio 9 : 1, the ratio of maximum to minimum intensity in the interference pattern is ______.


In the biprism experiment, the fringe width is 0.4 mm. What is the distance between the 4th dark band and the 6th bright band on the same side? 


The graph shows the variation of fringe width (β) versus distance of the screen from the plane of the slits (D) in Young's double-slit experiment Keeping other parameters the same. The wavelength of light used can be calculated as d = distance between the slits ______ 

 


In the biprism experiment, a source of monochromatic light is used for a certain distance between slit and eyepiece. When the distance between two virtual sources is changed from dA to dB, then the fringe width is changed from ZA to ZB. The ratio ZA to ZB is ______


In Young's double slit experiment, for wavelength λ1 the nth bright fringe is obtained at a point P on the screen. Keeping the same setting, source of light is replaced by wavelength λ2 and now (n + 1)th bright fringe is obtained at the same point P on the screen. The value of n is ______.


In Young's double-slit experiment, the distance between the slits is 3 mm and the slits are 2 m away from the screen. Two interference patterns can be obtained on the screen due to light of wavelength 480 nm and 600 run respectively. The separation on the screen between the 5th order bright fringes on the two interference patterns is ______


In an interference experiment, the intensity at a point is `(1/4)^"th"` of the maximum intensity. The angular position of this point is at ____________. 
(cos 60° = 0.5, `lambda` = wavelength of light, d = slit width)


What is meant by Constructive interference?


A beam of electrons is used in Young's double-slit experiment. If the speed of electrons is increased then the fringe width will ______.


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