This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Physics (Part Ii) Chapter 10 Wave Optics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Physics (Part Ii) Chapter 10 Wave Optics Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the effect of increasing the wavelength of light in a Michelson interferometer? A) Causes the fringes to disappear. B) No effect on fringe spacing. C) Decreases the fringe spacing. D) Increases the fringe spacing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increases the fringe spacing. 2. What is the function of the beam splitter in a Michelson interferometer? A) To absorb unwanted light. B) To polarize the beam. C) To divide the incoming beam into two perpendicular paths. D) To rotate the beam direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To divide the incoming beam into two perpendicular paths. 3. In Newton's ring experiments, the diameter of dark rings is proportional to A) Odd natural number. B) Square roots of odd natural numbers. C) Even natural number. D) Square root of natural number. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Square root of natural number. 4. The distance between 2 corresponding parts of a wave (example-crest to crest) is its ..... A) Trough. B) Frequency. C) Amplitude. D) Wavelength. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wavelength. 5. Two coherent monochromatic light beams of intensities I and 4I are superposed. The maximum and minimum possible intensities in the resulting beam are: A) 5I and I. B) 5I and 3I. C) 9I and I. D) 9I and 3I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9I and I. 6. Mirage is a phenomenon due to: A) Refraction of light. B) Reflection of light. C) Total internal reflection of light. D) Diffraction of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Total internal reflection of light. 7. When we look through rainbow glasses ..... (diffraction-slits) ..... which color is bent the least (shows up closest to the object) A) Red. B) Violet. C) Yellow. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Violet. 8. In Young's double slit experiment, if the monochromatic source of yellow light is replaced by red light, the fringe width A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Remains unchanged. D) The fringes disappear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases. 9. Mark the correct options: A) If the incident rays are converging, we have a real object. B) If the final rays are converging, we have a real image. C) The image of a virtual object is called a virtual image. D) If the image is virtual, the corresponding object is called a virtual object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If the final rays are converging, we have a real image. 10. According to Huygens' principle, each point on a wavefront acts as: A) A point source of new plane waves. B) A reflector of incoming rays. C) A source of secondary spherical wavelets. D) A center for destructive interference only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A source of secondary spherical wavelets. 11. A point source of light creates ..... wavefront A) Cylindrical. B) Plane. C) Spherical. D) Parabolic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spherical. 12. Two slits in YDSE have widths in the ratio 1:25. Then the ratio of maximum and minimum in the interference pattern will be A) 1;5. B) 5:1. C) 9:4. D) 4:9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9:4. 13. In single slit diffraction experiment, on moving sreen away from the slit angular width of fringes would A) Decrease. B) Increase. C) No change. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No change. 14. Light of wavelength 589.3nm is incident normally on the slit of width 0.1mm. What will be the angular width of the central diffraction maximum at a distance of 1m from the slit A) 0.68$^{o}$. B) 1.02$^{o}$. C) 0.34$^{o}$. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.68$^{o}$. 15. ..... principle says that each point of the wavefront is the source of a secondary disturbance and the wavelets emanating from these points spread out in all directions with the speed of the wave. A) Rayleigh. B) Maxwell. C) Huygens. D) Hertz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Huygens. 16. The human eye can readily detect wavelengths from about 400 nm to 700 nm. If white light illuminates a diffraction grating having 750 lines/mm, over what range of angles does the visible m=1 spectrum extend? A) 17-32 degrees. B) 10-12 degrees. C) 43-46 degrees. D) 1-10 degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 17-32 degrees. 17. Light propagates rectilinearly, due to A) Wave nature. B) Wavelengths. C) Velocity. D) Frequency. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wave nature. 18. The wave nature of light can be experimentally confirmed by observing: A) Photoemission of electrons. B) Straight-line shadows. C) Interference patterns. D) Increase in temperature on absorption. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interference patterns. 19. The Rayleigh criterion for resolving power for a circular aperture is $\theta=1.22\\frac{\lambda}{D}$ $\times10^{12}$ $\times10^9$ A) $4\times10^{-5}m$. B) $4\times10^{-4}m$. C) 0.018 m. D) 18 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 18 m. 20. Which of the following is essential for sustained interference between two waves? A) Same amplitude. B) Same frequency and constant phase difference. C) Same wavelength only. D) Opposite polarizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Same frequency and constant phase difference. 21. A slit of width 0.1 mm is illuminated by a light of wavelength 5000 A$^{0}$ . The angle of diffraction for third minimum is A) 15 x 10$^{-3}$ rad. B) 1.5 x 10$^{-3}$ rad. C) 3.5 x 10$^{-3}$ rad. D) 35 x 10$^{-3}$ rad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 15 x 10$^{-3}$ rad. 22. The characteristics of wave which does not change after refraction is A) Wavelength. B) Velocity. C) Frequency. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frequency. 23. A diffraction grating that has 4000 lines per centimetres is illuminated at normal incidence with white light ( wavelength range of 400 nm to 700 nm). How many orders of spectra can one observe in the transmitted light? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 24. Monochromatic coherent light shines through apair of slits. If the wavelength of the light isdecreased, which of the following statements is/aretrue of the resulting interference pattern?I. The distance between the maxima stays thesameII. The distance between the maxima decreasesIII. The distance between the minima stays thesameIV. The distance between the minima decreases. A) I and III only. B) I and IV only. C) II and III only. D) II and IV only. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) II and IV only. 25. In YDSE fringe width was found to be 0.4 mm . If whole apparatus is immersed in water of $\mu$= 4/3, new fringe width in mm is A) 0.25. B) 0.30. 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