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Interference Physics Tutorial

The document discusses interference patterns produced by light reflecting off thin films and parallel plates, including Newton's rings. It provides examples of calculating visibility from beam amplitudes, minimum film thickness for interference, number of dark lines seen in a spectrometer, fringe spacing and angle of wedge in a soap film, antireflective coating wavelength, diameters of dark rings, and refractive index measurement.

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Interference Physics Tutorial

The document discusses interference patterns produced by light reflecting off thin films and parallel plates, including Newton's rings. It provides examples of calculating visibility from beam amplitudes, minimum film thickness for interference, number of dark lines seen in a spectrometer, fringe spacing and angle of wedge in a soap film, antireflective coating wavelength, diameters of dark rings, and refractive index measurement.

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Department of Physics and Materials Science

PHYSICS (UPH 013), Jan-June 2024


TUTORIAL SHEET # 5: Interference

1. Two beams are forming an interference fringe pattern.


(a) If their amplitudes are in the ratio of 3/1, what is the visibility?
(b) What ratio of amplitudes produces a visibility of 0.5?

2. What is the minimum thickness of the parallel film (refractive index =1.4) in which
interference of green component (wavelength 530 nm) of the normally incident light can
take place by reflection?

3. A beam of white light (assuming a continuous spectrum from 400 to 700 nm) is incident
at an angle of 45o on two parallel glass plates separated by an air film 0.001 cm thick. The
reflected light is admitted into a prism spectroscope. How many dark “lines” are seen across
the entire spectrum?

4. A soap film (of refractive index = 1.33) is formed using a rectangular wire frame and held
in a vertical plane. When illuminated by laser light of wavelength 632.8 nm, one sees a
series of localized interference fringes that measure 15 per cm. Explain their formation and
calculate the angle of wedge.

5. A thin film of MgF2 (refractive index = 1.38) is deposited on a glass so that it is


antireflecting at a wavelength of 580 nm under normal incidence. What wavelength is
minimally reflected when the light is incident at 45o?

6. If the diameters of 10 th and 15th dark rings of a Newton’s ring pattern are found to be 6.0
mm and 8.0 mm respectively, find the diameter of the 5 th dark ring. Plane glass plate and
plano convex lens combination is used to produce interference pattern due to reflected
beams.

7. Newton’s rings are formed in the air film enclosed between a plano-convex lens (of radius
of curvature = 50 cm) and a plane glass plate by reflection. Diameters of 4 th and 20th bright
rings are respectively 0.203 cm and 0.484 cm. Show that the lens and the plate are not
exactly in contact. Also, find wavelength of the light used.

8. The diameter of mth dark ring in Newton’s ring experiment changes from 3 mm to 2.5 mm
when the air film is replaced by a liquid. Find the refractive index of the liquid.

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