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BINA LIBRARY-OPTICS -II-EXERCISE
  1. What is diffraction of light?

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  2. What is polarisation?

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  3. Which property of waves proves that light waves are transverse?

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  4. What is the path difference between two wave for destructive interfere...

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  5. Two independent sources of light cannot be coherent. Why?

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  6. What is the polarising angle of a medium of refractive index sqrt3 ?

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  7. Name the wave phenomenon which is exhibited by light, but not by sound...

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  8. What is the geometrical shape of a wave front when a plane wave passes...

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  9. What is the geometrical shape of a wave front when a plane wave passes...

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  10. What is the geometrical shape of a wave front when a plane wave passes...

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  11. What is a polaroid?

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  12. What are unpolarized and linearly polarized light waves? What is a pol...

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  13. Explain Huygen's principle of wave optics.

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  14. Explain reflection of light on the basis of Huygen's theory.

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  15. State the factors which determines the width of interference fringes p...

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  16. What are coherent source of light? Why no interference pattern is obs...

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  17. What is the effect on the interference fringes in Young's double slit ...

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  18. Prove that ratio of the intensities at maxima and minima is (I(max))/...

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  19. State two important differences between interference and diffraction.

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  20. What is resolving power? Give an expression for resolving power of a t...

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