OPTICS & WAVE OPTICS respectively.
Focal length of the above convex lens in
water is:
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a. 42.1 cm
Rainbow is caused by which of the following physical
phenomena? b. 54.6 cm
a. Diffusion, Refraction and Internal reflection c. 78.2 cm
b. Diffusion and Refraction d. 102.4 cm
c. Refraction and Internal reflection It is possible to observe total internal reflection when a
ray of light travels from
d. Diffusion and Internal reflection
(a)air to water
Inelastic scattering of photons by matter is
(b)air to glass
a. Tyndall Effect
(c)water to glass
b Raman Effect
(d)glass to water
c. Thomson effect
When the ray of the Sun passes through a glass prism,
d. Bose-Einstein effect the colour of light undergoing the minimum deviation
is:
If a wave undergoes refraction, what happens to its
phase? (a)Violet
a. a phase change of 180 deg will occur (b) Red
b. a phase change of 270 deg will occur (c) Green
c. No phase change will occur (d) Blue
d. a phase change of 90 deg will occur For fused silica, variation of the real part of refractive
index as a function of wavelength in the visible band is
The focal length of a convex lens is minimum
as follows:
for…………….. light.
(a)refractive index increases with increase in
A red
wavelength
b. violet
(b)refractive index decreases with increase in
c. blue wavelength
d. green (c)refractive index does not vary with wavelength
In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slits are (d)refractive index increases with increase in
separated by 0.28 mm and the screen is placed 1.4 m wavelength from 400 nm to 647 nm, and decreases with
away. The distance between the central bright fringe and further increase in wavelength
the fourth bright fringe is 1.2 cm. The wavelength of
The limit of resolution of an optical instrument arises on
light used in the experiment is:
account of
a. 522 nm
(a) interference
b. 600 nm
(b) diffraction
c. 488 nm
(c) polarization
d. 700 nm
(d) none of these
A convex lens has 20 cm focal length in air. Refractive
Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum are explained by
index of air-water and air-glass are 1.33 and 1.5
(a) Wien’s law
(b) Planck’s law (b) 496 nm
(c) Newton’s law (c) 567 nm
(d) Kirchoff’s law (d) 632 nm
Which of the following is incorrect? A convex lens of 32 mm diameter and focal length of 24
cm is used to form images of objects. Considering
(a)Raman scattering is inelastic scattering
refraction of the lens, what angular separation must two
(b)Raman lines in the low frequency side are Stokes distant point objects have to satisfy Rayleigh criterion?
lines Wavelength of light from the distant objects is 550 nm.
(c)Raman lines in the high frequency side are anti- (a) 2.1x10-6 rad
Stokes lines
(b) 2.1x10-5 rad
(d)Raman lines are unequally spaced in frequency
(c) 2.1x10-4 rad
domain
(d) 2.1x10-3 rad
Assume that monochromatic light is incident at the air-
glass interface of a glass plate having refractive index The phenomenon of bending of a lightwave round an
n=1.55. What should be the angle of incidence () for obstacle is known as
the reflected light to be fully polarized?
a. Reflection
(a) =tan-1(1.55)
b. Refraction
(b) =sin-1(1/1.55) c. Polarization
(c) =cos-1(1/1.55) d. Diffraction
(d) None of the above A grating is used for
A 180 cm tall person stands in front of a vertically a. Dispersion of the different wavelengths of a
mounted plane mirror. What should be the minimum polychromatic light
length of the mirror to view the entire length of hisbody?
b. Combining two beams of light
(a) 45 cm
c. Splitting a beam of light
(b) 90 cm
d. Blocking the light
(c) 135 cm
Young՚s double slit experiment manifests the
(d) 180 cm
a. Corpuscular nature of light
When light suffers reflection at the interface from air to
glass, the change in phase of the reflected light is equal b. Wave nature of light
to
c. Both corpuscular and wave nature of light
(a) 90 deg
d. Undetermined state of light
(b) 180 deg
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(c) 0 deg
a
(d) 270 deg
White light with uniform intensity across the visible
wavelength range is incident on a water film of
thickness 320 nm, suspended in the air. Refractive index
of the water film is 1.33. At what wavelength is the light
reflected by the film brightest to an observer?
(a) 455 nm
d b
a
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