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Tutorial sheet #1 (Interference)

1.

Two coherent sources whose intensity ratio is 144:1 produce interference fringes. Deduce the
ratio of maximum to minimum intensity of the fringe system.

2.

Suppose Youngs experiment is performed with blue-green light of wavelength 500 nm. The slits
are 1.2 mm apart and the viewing screen is 5.4 m from the slits. How far apart are the bright fringes?

3.

A double slit arrangement produces interference fringes for sodium light (=589 nm) that have
an angular separation of 3.5x10-3 rad. For what would the angular separation be 10.0% greater?

4.

In a Fresnels biprism experiment the distance between eyepiece and slit is 1 m. and the eye
piece has to be displaced through a distance of 3.4 mm for 20 fringes. For two conjugate positions of
convex lens between the biprism and the eye piece the distance between the two images are found to
be 4.05 mm and 2.90 mm. Calculate the wavelength of light used in this experiment.

5.

The distance between the slit & biprism and the biprism & the screen are 50 cm each. The angle
of the biprism is 1790 and its = 1.5. If the distance between the successive fringes is 0.0135 cm.
Calculate .

6.

When a thin monochromatic source was placed at a distance of 50 cm from a biprism of = 1.5;
the fringe-width of the interference bands was found to be 0.012 cm on a screen placed at a 100 cm
distance from the biprism. If =5893 then find the obtuse angle of the biprism.

7.

A Fresnel biprism arrangement is set with sodium light ( =5893 ) and in the field of view of
the eye piece we get 62 fringes. How many fringes shall we get in the same field of view if we
replace the source by mercury lamp using a) green filter (=5461 ), b) violet filter ( =4358 ).

8.

The refractive index of biprism is 1.5. With a monochromatic source of light, the fringe width
obtained is 0.2 mm. The whole set up is immersed in liquid of refractive index 1.3. What will be the
fringe width now?

9.

In an experiment with a biprism a convex lens is kept in between the biprism and the eyepiece.
In two different positions of the lens the distance between the images obtained in the eyepiece are
0.42 mm and 1.21 mm. In one position of the eyepiece the fringe width is 0.4mm., when the
eyepiece is moved away 60 cm the fringe width increases by 0.5mm. Calculate the wavelength of the
source used.

10.

In a biprism experiment, the fringes of width 0.0195 cm are observed at 100 cm from the slit. On
introducing a convex lens 30 cm from the slit, the two images of the slit are seen 0.7 cm apart at 100
cm distance from the slit. Calculate the wavelength of light used.

11.

A double slit of separation 1mm. is illuminated by white light (between 4000- 8000 ) on a
screen 60 cm away coloured interference pattern is formed. If a pinhole is made on this screen at a
distance of 2 mm. from the central white fringe, what wavelengths will be absent in the transmitted
light?

12.

Biprism fringes are produced using a source of wavelength 5893 . The biprism is of refractive
index 1.50 and refracting angles 1.040 and 1.230. The distance of focal plane of eyepiece from the
biprism is 56.1 cm and the distance from the slit to biprism is 12.4 cm Calculate a) separation of the
coherent slit images and b) the fringe width.

13.

In a Fresnels biprism experiment on inserting a thin plate of glass in the path of one of the
interfering beams it is found that the central bright fringe shifts to the position previously occupied
by the sixth bright fringe. If the wavelength of light used is 6000 and the refractive index of glass
plate is 1.50 for this wavelength, calculate the thickness of the plate.

14.

In biprism experiment fringes are first observed with sodium light ( =5893 ) and fringe width
was measured as .347 mm. Then two thin transparent sheets A and B of thickness 0.016 mm. and
0.02 mm. and refractive indices 1.65 and 1.45 respectively were introduced in the two beams.
Calculate the shifts of fringe system. Is the shift toward A or B?

15.

In one path in a biprism arrangement an air cell of 10 cm thickness is introduced and the pressure
in it is changed at the rate of 2.0 cm of mercury per minute. Given that in gases -1 is proportional to
pressure and for air at 76 cm pressure is 1.000293, deduce the rate at which the fringe system
shifts taking / = 2.15 103. (Here = fringe width, = refractive index, and = wavelength.)

16.

In a typical biprism arrangement b/a =20, and for sodium light ( 5893 ) one obtains a
fringe width of 0.1 cm; here b is the distance between the biprism and the screen. Assuming n = 1.5,
calculate the angle .

17.

In the double hole experiment using white light, consider two points on the screen, one
corresponding to a path difference of 5000 and the other corresponding to a path difference of
40000 . Find the wavelengths ( in the visible region) which correspond to constructive and
destructive interference. What will be the colour of these points?

18.

In the Youngs double hole experiment calculate I I where I represents the intensity at a point
max
where the path difference is

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19.

Monochromatic light emitted by a broad source of wavelength 5800 , falls normally on two
plates of glass enclosing a wedge shaped film. The plates touch at one end and are separated at a
point 15 cm from that at the end by a wire of 0.05 mm. diameter. Find the fringe width.

20.

A soap film of r.i 4/3 and of thickness 1.5 10-4 cm is illuminated by white light incident at an
angle of 450. The light reflected by it is examined spectroscopically in which it is found that a dark
band corresponds to a wavelength of 510-5 cm. Calculate the order of the dark band.

21.

Two rectangular glass - plates are laid one upon another with a wire between them at one edge,
so as to enclose a thin wedge-shaped air film. The plates are illuminated normally by sodium light (
= 5893 ). Bright and dark fringes are formed, there being 10 of each per cm length of the wedge,
measured normal to the edge in contact. Find the angle of the wedge.

22.

Two wires with diameters 0.010 cm and 0.020 cm respectively are laid parallel to each other and
2.00 cm apart on a piece of plane glass; another piece of plane glass is then laid on top. If the light
used is of wavelength 5.46 10-5 cm., calculate the distance between consecutive bright fringes.

23.

A glass plate 0.40 micron thick is illuminated by a beam of white light normal to the plate. for
glass is 1.50. Calculate the wavelengths within the limits of visible spectrum ( = 4.0 10 -5 cm to
= 7.010-5 cm) which will be intensified in the reflected beam.

24.

Bright light of = 585 nm is incident perpendicularly on a soap film (=1.33) of thickness 1.21
m, suspended in air. Is the light reflected by the two surfaces of the film closer to interfering fully
destructively or fully constructively?

25.

A Newtons ring arrangement is used with a source emitting two wavelengths 1 = 6000 and
2 = 4500 and it is found that the nth dark ring due to 1 coincides with (n+1)th dark ring for 2. If
the radius of curvature of the curved surface is 90 cm. find the diameter of the nth dark ring of 1.

26.

Newtons rings are formed with reflected light of wavelength 5.095 10-5 cm with a liquid
between the plane and curved surface. The diameter of the 5 th bright ring is 0.3 cm. and radius of
curvature of the curved surface is 100 cm. Calculate the refractive index of the liquid.

27.

Three convex spherical glass surfaces have large radii of 200.0, 300.0 and 400.0 cm.
respectively. When they are brought into contact in pairs and extended source of red light with a
wavelength of 6500 is used, find (a) the path difference d and (b) the radii r of the 20 th bright ring
for each of the three combinations.

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28.

In the Newtons rings arrangement, the radius of curvature of the curved surface is 50 cm. The
radius of 9th and 16th dark rings are 0.18 cm and 0.2235 cm. Calculate the wavelength. [ Hint : The
use of equation rn2 = nR will give wrong results, why?]

29.

Plano convex lens of radius 3m is placed on an optically flat glass plate and is illuminated by
monochromatic light. The diameter of 8th dark ring in the transmitted system is 0.72 cm. Calculate
the wave length of the light used.

30.

In a Newtons ring experiment the radius of curvature of the plano-convex lens is 100cm & the
wavelength of the source is 5000. When the lens is lifted by certain amount the diameter of the 10 th
ring, reduces to half of its original value, calculate the amount by which the lens was raised.

31.

Light containing two wavelengths 1 & 2 falls normally on a plano convex lens of radius of
curvature R resting on a glass plate. If the nth dark ring due to 1 coincides with the (n+1)th dark ring
due to 2 prove that the radius of the nth dark ring of 1 is = [(1 2 R)/( 1 -2)]1/2

32.

The convex surface of a plano-convex glass lens with curvature radius R=40 cm comes into
contact with a glass plate. A certain ring observed in reflected light has a radius r=2.5mm. Watching
the given ring, the lens was gradually raised from the plate by a distance 5.0 m. What has the radius
of that ring become to?