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Two convex lenses of same focal length but of aperture $A_1$ and $A_2\; (A_2 < A_1)$ are used as the objective lenses in two astronomical telescope having identical eye pieces. What is the ratio of then resolving power ?

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What is the value of refractive index of a medium of polarized angle $60^{\circ}$

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If the angle between the axis of polarized and analyser is $45^{\circ}$ , write the ratio of intensities of original light and the transmitted light after passing through analyses

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Which away these x- ray , sound waves, and radio waves can be polarized ?

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What does red shift in the spectra of galaxies indicates?

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Sound waves cannot be polarized . Why ? Only transverse waves can be polarized .But sound waves are longitudinal. so cannot be polarized.

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What is the angle between the reflected and refraction rays at polarized angle .

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Which phenomenon leads us to conclude that light is transverse in nature ?

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A screen is placed 50 cm from a single slit which is illuminated with $6000 ^{\circ}$ light . If the distance between the first and third minima in the diffraction pattern is $3.00\;nm$ , what is the width of the slit ?

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In a single slit diffraction experiment , first minimum for red light $(660 nm)$ coincides with first maximum of some other wavelength $\lambda$ calculate $\lambda$ . calculate $\lambda$

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When the angle of incidence on a material is $60^{\circ}$ the reflected light is completely polarized. The velocity of the refracted ray inside the material

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The human eye has an approximate angular resolution of $\phi = 5.8 \times 10^{-4}rad,$ and a typical photo printer prints a minimum of 300 dots per inch (1 inch =2.54 cm) . At what minimal distance z should a printed page be held so that one does not see the individual dots ?

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Why is the diffraction of sound waves more evident in daily experience than that of light wave ?

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What is the shape of the wave front on earth for sunlight ?

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Is Huggers principle valid for longitudinal sound waves ?

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Consider sunlight incident on a pinhole of width $10^3\;A$ . The image of the pinhole seen on a screen shall be

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Consider the diffraction pattern for a small pin hole. As the size hole is increased

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For light diverging from a point source ,

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Consider a light beam incident from air to a glass slab at Brewster's angle as shown. A Polaroid is placed of the emergent ray at a point P and rotated about an axis passing through the center and perpendicular to the plane of the polaroid .

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The direction of ray of light incident on a concave mirror is shown by PQ, while direction in which the ray would travel after reflection shown in this figure. marked 1,2,3 and 4. Which of the four rays shows the direction of reflected ray ?

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The phenomenon involved in the reflection of radio waves by ionosphere is similar to

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The radius of curvature of a plano - convex . lens is 20 cm If the refractive index of the material of the lens be $1.5$ it will

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You are given four sources of light each one providing a light of a single colour - red, blue , green and yellow . Suppose the angle of refraction for a beam of yellow light corresponding to a particular angle of incident at an interface of two media is $90^{\circ}$ which of the following : Statement is correct if the source of yellow light is replaced with that of other lights without changing the angle incident ?

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A passenger in an aeroplane shall

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An object approaches a convergent lens from the left of the lens with a uniform speed 5 m/s and stops at the focus at the focus . The image

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A short pulse of white light is incident from air to glass slab at normal incident . After travelling through the slabs, the first colour to emerge is

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when a low flying passes overhead , we sometimes notice a slight shaking of the picture on our TV screen . Suggest a possible explanation .

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A parallel beam of light of wave length 500 nm falls on a narrow slit and the resulting diffraction pattern is observed on a screen i m away . It is observed that the first minimum is at a distance of 2,5 nm from the center of the screen . Find the width of the slit .

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Two towers on top of two hills are 40 km apart. The line joining then passes 50 m above a hill halfway between the tower . What is the longest wavelength of radio waves , which can be sent between the towers with out appreciable diffraction effects ?

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Ray optics is based on the assumption that light travels in a straight line . Diffraction effects observed when light propagates through small apertures / silts or around small obstacles ) disprove this assumption , yet the ray optics assumption is so commonly used in understanding location and several other properties of image in optical instruments? what is the justification ?

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When a tiny circular is placed in the path of light from a distant source, a bright spot in seen at the center of the shadow of the obstacle . explain why ?

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Two students are separated by a 7 m partition wall in a room 10 m high . If both light and sound waves can bend round corners, how is it that the student are unable to see each other even through they can converse easily

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In what way diffraction from each slit related to interference pattern in a double slit experiment?

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In a single slit diffraction experiment, the width of the slit is made double the original width. How does this affect the size and intensity of the central diffraction band ?

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In a double slit experiment using light of wavelength $600\; nm$ , the angular width of a fringe formed on a distant screen is $0.1^{\circ}$ What is the spacing between the two slits ?

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For sound waves the Doppler formula the frequency shift differs slightly between the two situation (i) source at rest; observe moving (ii) source moving ; observing at rest . The exact Doppler formula for the case light waves in vacuum , are however strictly ideal for the two situation in case of light travelling in a medium ?

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Below are some of the factors which could possibly influence the speed of wave propagation. What are the factors which could possibly influence the speed of propagation of light ?

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Let us list some of the factors which could possibly influence the speed of wave propagation . (i) nature of source (ii) direction of propagation (iii) motion of source and /or observe (iv) wave length (v) internity of the wave on which of these factors if any does the speed of light in vaccum depend .

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Explain : how Newtons corpuscular theory predicts the speed of light in a medium , say water, to be greater than the speed of light in vacuum. Is the prediction confirmed by the experimental determination of speed of light in water ? If not , which alternative picture of light is consistent with experiment ?

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The $6563 A^{\circ} H_2$ line emitted by hydrogen in a star is found to be red shifted by $15^{\circ}$ , Estimate the speed with which the star is reading from earth .

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Estimate the distance for which ray is good approximation for an aperture of $4\;mm$ and wave length $400\;nm$

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Light of wave length $5000A^{\circ}$ falls on a reflecting surface . What are the wave length and frequency of the reflected light ? For what angle of incidence is the reflected ray normal to the incident ray ?

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A beam of light consisting of two wave length 650 nm and 520 nm, is used to obtain interference finger in a young's double slit experiment . What is the least distance from the central maximum ? Where the bright fringer due to both wavelength coincide ?

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A beam of light consisting of two wave length 650 nm and 520 nm, is used to obtain interference finger in a young's double slit experiment . Find the distance of the third bright fringe on the screen from the central maximum for wave length 650 nm

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In a double slit experiment, the angular width of a fringe is found to be $0.2 ^{\circ}$ on a screen placed 1 m away . The wave length of light used is 600 nm. What will be the angular width of the fringe if the entire experimental approaches is immerse in water ? Take refractive index of water to be 4/3 ?

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What is Brewster's angle for air to glass transition ?

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In Young's double slit experience using monochromatic light of wave length $\lambda$ , the intensity of light at a point on the screen where path different is $\lambda$ is k units. What is the intensity at a point where path different is $\large\frac{\lambda}{3}$

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In yang's double slit experiment , the slit are separated by $0.25$ mm and the screen is placed 1.4 m away. The distance the control bright fringe and the fourth bright fringe is measured to be 1.2 cm determine the wave length of light used in the experiment

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If the speed of light in glass independent of colors of light , If not which of the two colours, red and violet travels slower in a glass prism ?

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The refractive index of glass is 1.5 . What is the speed of light in glass ? (speed of light in vacuum is $3 \times 10^{8}m/s$ )

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