INTERFERENCE

1. Sodium light of wavelength 589.3 nm from a narrow slit is incident on a double slit. If the overall
separa on of 10 fringes on a screen placed 2 m away is 22 mm, calculate the double slit separa on.
(0.536 mm)
2. The slit separa on of a double slit is 0.51 mm. The overall separa on of 20 fringes is 40 mm. The
wavelength of light used is 510 nm. Calculate the distance between the screen and the slit. (2m)
3. In Youngs double slit experiment white light is used. The slit separa on is 2 mm and the distance
between the coherent sources and the screen is 2 m. The first violet and red fringes are formed at
0.44 mm and 0.71 mm away from the central white fringe. Find the wavelength of the violet and
the red light? (440 10 9 m, 710 10 9 m)
4. In a Youngs double slit experiment the wavelength of light used is 5461 A°. How many fringes can
be seen in a width of 1.5 cm if the screen is at a distance of 1.5 m from the source. Given that the
slit width of 1.5 mm. (27)
5. Two straight narrow parallel slits 2 mm apart are illuminated by monochroma c light of wavelength
5896 Ao. Fringes are obtained on a screen 60 cm away from the slit. Calculate the fringe width.
(1.77 10 4 m)
6. ln Youngs double slit experiment, the distance between the two slits is halved and the distance of
the screen from the from the double slit is made three mes. How will the fringe width change? (
6 mes the ini al value)
7. In an interference pa ern the ra o of maximum to minimum intensity is 36 : 1. Find the ra o
between the amplitude and the intensi es of the two interfering waves?
8. Two coherent sources whose intensity ra o is 81: 1 produce interference fringes. Derive the ra o
of maximum intensity to minimum intensity of the fringe system.
9. In an interference pa ern at a point, we observe the 12th order maximum for wavelength 600 nm.
What order will be visible here if the source is replaced by light of wavelength 480 nm.(15)
10. A biprism is placed 5 cm away from a slit illuminated by sodium light ( = 5890 Ao). The width of
the fringes obtained on a screen 76 cm from the biprism is 9.424  10 2 cm. What is the distance
between the two interfering sources (0.5 mm)
11. The distance between the slit and the biprism is 10cm. Interference fringes are seen in an eye piece
at a distance of 100 cm from the biprism. If the fringe width is 0.378 mm, calculate the wavelength
of light. Given the angle of the biprism is 1o and the refrac ve index of the material is 1.5 (600 nm)
12. The wavelength of light used in a biprism experiment is 590 nm. The distance between the sources
and the eyepiece is 1.2 m. If the distance between two virtual images is 0.75 mm calculate the
fringe width? (0.944 cm)
13. The inclined faces of a glass prism (refrac ve index 1.5) make an angle of 1o with the base of the
prism and is illuminated by light of wavelength 5900 Ao. Find the fringe width observed at a distance
of 1 m from the biprism? (3.710 7 m)
14. In a biprism experiment with sodium light, bands of width 0.0195 cm are observed at 100 cm from
the slit. On introducing a convex lens 30 cm away from the slit, two images of the slit are seen 0.7
cm apart at 100 cm distance from the slit. Calculate the wavelength of sodium light. (585010 10
m)
15. A biprism of angle 1o and = I.5 forms interference fringes on a screen 80 cm away from it. If the
distance between the source and the biprism is 30 cm then find the fringe width for light of wave
length 5000 Ao. (1.05 10 4 m)
16. In a biprism arrangement 50 fringes are observed with wavelength 6000 Å in the focal plane of the
eye piece. How many fringes will be observed if the wave length is changed to 5000 Ao and he set
up remains as such? (60)
17. Interfering fringes are produced by Fresnel's biprism in the focal plane of an eye piece 2 m away
from the slit. The two images of the slit that are formed for each of the two posi ons of a convex
 lens placed between the prism and the eye piece are found to be separated by 4.5 mm and 2.9 mm
respec vely. If the width of the interfering fringes be 0.326 mm, find the wave length of light used.
(587 nm)
18. The smallest thickness of a glass plate which makes it appear dark by reflec on is 3.92710 7 m. If
the refrac ve index of the plate is 1.5 and the angle of refrac on into the plate is 60o, calculate the
wavelength of light used? (589 nm)
19. Fringes are produced with monochroma c light of wavelength 5450 A°. A thin plate of glass of
refrac ve index 1.5 is then placed normally in the path of one of the interfering beams and the
central third band of the fringe system is found to move into the posi on previously occupied by
the third bright band from the centre. Calculate the thickness of glass plate. (3.27 10 7 m)
20. A thin plas c sheet of  = 1.60 and thickness 1.178 10 3 cm is placed in the path of the interfering
beams of Fresnel's experiment. If the central fringe shi s to the place of the 12th fringe, then
calculate wavelength of light. (589.0 10 9 m)
21. A soap film of refrac ve index 1.33 shows the dark band at a certain angle in the reflected system.
If the light of wavelength 500 nm is incident on the film at an angle of 61° 50’, calculate the thickness
of the film. (10 6 m)
22. A soap film of refrac ve index 1.33 is illuminated with light of different wavelengths at an angle of
45°. There is complete destruc ve interference for wavelength 5890 A°. Find the thickness of the
film. (3.312 10 7 m)
23. White light is reflected from an oil film of thickness 0.01 mm and refrac ve index 1.4 at an angle of
45° to the ver cal. If the reflected light falls on the slit of a spectrometer calculate the number of
dark bands seen between wavelengths 4000 Ao and 5000 Ao. (12)
24. A thin soap film ( = 1.33) seen by sodium light ( = 5893 Ao) by normal reflec on appears dark.
Find the minimum thickness of the film. (221.5 nm)
25. Calculate the thickness of the thinnest film (= 1.4) in which interference of violet component (=
400 nm) of incident light can take place by reflec on. (71.43 nm)
26. A very thin film of oil ( = 1.2) is formed on the surface of water ( = 4/3). What is the thickness of
oil at the first bright fringe for  =480 nm? (Hint: The reflec on at both upper and lower surfaces
of the material takes place at similar condi ons. ie Light is going from rarer to denser. Hence 2t
cos r = n is the condi on for brightness). (210 7 m)
27. An oil film of thickness 0.12 m rests on a pool of water. If ray strikes the film at an angle of 60°,
what is the wave length reflected in the first order? (570 nm)
28. The diameter of the fi h ring in a Newtons rings experiment is 0.336 cm and the diameter of the
15th ring was 0.590 cm. Calculate the wavelength of light used, if the radius of curvature of the
plano -convex lens used is 100 cm? (5890 A°)
29. Using light of wavelength 6695 A° newtons rings were seen. The diameter of the 10 th dark ring is
found to be 4.33 mm in the reflected system. Calculate the radius of curvature of the lower face of
the convex lens used. (0.7 m)
30. Newton's rings are observed normally in the reflected light of wavelength 589.3nm. The diameter
of the 10th dark ring is 0.005 m. Find the radius curvature of the lens and the thickness of the air
film? (1.062m, 2.9410 7 m)
31. Newtons rings are observed between a spherical surface of radius of curvature 2 m and a plane
glass plate. If the diameter of the nth and (n+1)th bright rings are 4.2 mm and 7.0 mm respec vely,
what is the wavelength of light used? (Ans : 4900 Ao)
32. In a Newton's ring experiment the diameter of the 5th dark ring is reduced to half of its value a er
introducing a liquid below the convex surface. Calculate the refrac ve index of the liquid. (4)
33. In Newton's ring experiment if a drop of water (n = 4/3) be placed in between the lens and the plate
the diameter of the 10th ring is found to be 0.6 cm. Obtain the radius of curvature of the face of
the lens in contact with the plate. The wavelength of light used is 6000 Ao (2 m)
34. Newton's rings are observed normally in reflected light of wave length 590 nm. The diameter of
the 10th dark ring is 5 mm. Find the radius of curvature of the lens and the thickness of the film.
(1.059 m; 310 6 m]
35. Newtons rings are formed by reflec on in the air film between a plane glass surface and a spherical
surface of radius 1 m. If the diameter of the third bright ring is 1.81 m and that of the 13th bright
ring is 5.01 mm, calculate the wavelength of light used. (546 nm)
36. In a Newton's ring experiment the diameter of the 5 th dark ring is 3.36 mm and the diameter of the
15th ring is 5.90 mm. Find the radius of curvature of the plano convex lens, if the wave length of
light used is 589 nm. (0.998 m)
37. In a Newtons ring arrangement if a drop of water ( = 4/3) be placed between the lens and the
plate, the diameter of the 10th dark ring is found to be 6 mm. Obtain the radius of curvature of the
face of the lens in contact with the plate. The wave length of light used is 600 nm (2 m)
38. The diameter of the nth dark ring in an arrangement giving Newtons rings changes from 3 mm to
2.5 mm when a liquid is introduced between the lens and the plate. Calculate the value of refrac ve
index of the liquid. (1.44)
39. Fringes of equal thickness are observed in a cellophane wedge of refrac ve index 1.4, using light of
wavelength 600 nm. If the fringe width observed is 0.2 cm calculate the angle of the wedge?
(1.07110 4 radian)
40. Two op cally plane glass plate lies one above the other. A sheet of paper of thickness 0.04 mm is
kept between the two plates at a distance of 4 cm from one edge. Calculate the fringe width using
sodium light? ( 2.94710 4 m)
41. Two plane glass surfaces in contact along one edge are separated at the opposite edge by a thin
wire. If 20 interference fringes are observed between these edges in sodium light for normal
incidence, what is the thickness of the wire? (5.89 m)
42. Light of wavelength 6000 Ao falls normally on a thin wedge -shaped film of refrac ve index 1.35
forming fringes that are 2.0 mm apart. Find the angle of the wedge. (0.006.3°)
43. A wedge-shaped air film having an angle of 40" is illuminated by monochroma c light and fringes
are observed ver cally through a microscope. The distance between two consecu ve bright fringes
is 0.12 cm. Calculate the wavelength of light used. (465.2 nm)
44. In a Michelsons interferometer, when the movable mirror is turned through a distance of 0.0295
cm 100 fringes are seen to cross the field view. Calculate the wavelength of light used. (589 nm)
45. What is the distance between successive posi ons of the movable mirror for ge ng best fringes if
light waves of wavelength 5896 A° and 5890 A° are used? ( 0.02893 cm)
46. When the movable mirror of Michelsons interferometer is moved through 0.05896 mm a shi of
200 fringe is observed. What is the wavelength of light used? (589.6 nm)
47. How far must the movable mirror of a Michelson's interferometer be displaced for 2500 fringes of
the red cadmium light ( = 6438 Ao) to cross the field of view? (0.8048 mm)