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63. (b) : Here fo = 40 cm, fe = 4 cm

Power of the eye-lens, P = Pc + Pe
Tube length(l) = Distance between lenses = 40 D + 20 D = 60 D
= vo + fe Power of the eye lens
For objective lens, 1
P=
uo = –200 cm, vo = ? Focal length of the eye lens (f )
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100 5
− = or − = f = = = m= cm = cm

vo uo fo vo −200 40
P 60 D 60 60 3
1 1 1 4 Distance between the retina and cornea-eye lens = Focal
or = − = ∴ v0 = 50 cm
vo 40 200 200 length of the eye lens
\ l = 50 + 4 = 54 cm 5

= cm = 1.67 cm
fe
fo 3
f
67. (c) : Magnifying power, m = o = 9 ...(i)
fe

64. (b) :

where fo and fe are the focal lengths of the objective and

(fe + fo)
eyepiece respectively
Also, fo + fe = 20 cm ...(ii)
For eye-piece lens, On solving (i) and (ii), we get
f h fe I fo = 18 cm, fe = 2 cm
m= = 1 ⇒ =

f + u h0 fe − ( fo + fe ) L 68. (d) : Length of astronomical telescope (fo + fe) = 44

f L
⇒ o = − = Magnification of the telescope cm and ratio of focal length of the objective lens to that
fe I f
of the eye piece o = 10
65. (d) : Magnifying power of a microscope,

fe
 L  D  From the given ratio, we find that fo = 10 fe.
m=   
 fo   fe  Therefore 10fe + fe = 44 or fe = 4 cm
where fo and fe are the focal lengths of the objective and and focal length of the objective (fo)
eyepiece respectively and L is the distance between their = 44 – fe = 44 – 4 = 40 cm
focal points and D is the least distance of distinct vision.
69. (c) : Time of exposure t ∝ (f – number)2
If fo increases, then m will decrease.
2
fo t  5. 6 
Magnifying power of a telescope, m = ∴ =   = 4 or t = 0.02 s
fe  1   2. 8 
 
where fo and fe are the focal lengths of the objective and 200 
eyepiece respectively. 70. (a) : Magnifying power of telescope,
If fo increases, then m will increase. M = fo /fe
66. (a) : Converging power of cornea,
To produce largest magnifications fo > fe and fo and fe both
Pc = + 40 D should be positive (convex lens).
Least converging power of eye lens, Pe = + 20 D Therefore fe = +15 cm.

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CHAPTER

10 Wave Optics

10.1 Introduction (a) 25 Å (b) 100 Å

(c) zero (d) 2.5 Å (1995)
1. Which one of the following phenomena is not


7. Time taken by sunlight to pass through a window of

explained by Huygen’s construction of wavefront ?

(a) Refraction (b) Reflection thickness 4 mm whose refractive index is 3 is
2



(c) Diffraction (d) Origin of spectra (a) 2 × 10–4 s (b) 2 × 108 s



(1988)



(c) 2 × 10–11 s (d) 2 × 1011 s (1993)





10.3 Refraction and Reflection of Plane 8. A beam of monochromatic light is refracted from

vacuum into a medium of refractive index 1.5. The

Waves using Huygens Principle
wavelength of refracted light will be
2. The frequency of a light wave in a material is 2 × 1014 Hz (a) depend on intensity of refracted light


and wavelength is 5000 Å. The refractive index of (b) same

material will be (c) smaller (d) larger. (1992, 1991)




(a) 1.50 (b) 3.00
9. Green light of wavelength 5460 Å is incident on an




(c) 1.33 (d) 1.40 (2007)

air-glass interface. If the refractive index of glass




3. An electromagnetic radiation of frequency n, is 1.5, the wavelength of light in glass would be

wavelength l, travelling with velocity v in air, enters (c = 3 × 108 m s–1)
a glass slab of refractive index m. The frequency, (a) 3640 Å (b) 5460 Å



wavelength and velocity of light in the glass slab will (c) 4861 Å (d) none of these. (1991)




be respectively
v 10.4 Coherent and Incoherent Addition of
(b) 2n , λ and v
(a) n, 2λ and Waves
µ µ µ



n λ v λ v 10. The interference pattern is obtained with
(c) , and (d) n, and (1997)

µ µ µ µ µ two coherent light sources of intensity


ratio n. In the interference pattern, the ratio
4. The refractive index of water is 1.33. What will be Imax − Imin
will be

the speed of light in water?
Imax + Imin
(a) 4 × 108 m/s (b) 1.33 × 108 m/s



(c) 3 × 10 m/s
8
(d) 2.25 × 108 m/s (1996) n 2 n n 2 n
(a) (b) (c) (d)




5. n +1 n +1 2
(n + 1)2




Light travels through a glass plate of thickness t and (n +1)

having a refractive index m. If c is the velocity of (NEET-II 2016)
light in vacuum, the time taken by light to travel this
11. Ratio of intensities of two waves are given by 4 : 1.
thickness of glass is
Then ratio of the amplitudes of the two waves is
t µt tc (1996)
(a) (b) (c) tmc (d) (a) 2 : 1 (b) 1 : 2
µc c

µ







(c) 4 : 1 (d) 1 : 4 (1991)
6. A star, which is emitting radiation at a wavelength
12. Interference is possible in

of 5000 Å, is approaching the earth with a velocity
(a) light waves only (b) sound waves only
of 1.5 × 104 m/s. The change in wavelength of the
(c) both light and sound waves
radiation as received on the earth is
(d) neither light nor sound waves. (1989)
Wave Optics 89

10.5 Interference of Light Waves and Young’s (a)

49
(b)
4
(c)
9
(d)
121
Experiment 121 9 4 49

13. In Young’s double slit experiment, if the separation

(2015)
between coherent sources is halved and the distance 20. In the Young’s double slit experiment, the intensity

of the screen from the coherent sources is doubled, of light at a point on the screen where the path
then the fringe width becomes difference l is K, (l being the wavelength of light
(a) double
(b) half

used). The intensity at a point where the path

(c) four times
(d) one-fourth 

difference is l/4 will be

 (NEET 2020) (a) K (b) K/4

14. In a double slit experiment, when light of wavelength

(c) K/2
(d) zero (2014)


400 nm was used, the angular width of the first

21. In Young’s double slit experiment, the slits are
minima formed on a screen placed 1 m away, was

2 mm apart and are illuminated by photons of two

found to be 0.2°. What will be the angular width of
the first minima, if the entire experimental apparatus wavelengths l1 = 12000 Å and l2 = 10000 Å. At what
is immersed in water? (mwater = 4/3) minimum distance from the common central bright
(a) 0.1° (b) 0.266° (c) 0.15° (d) 0.05° fringe on the screen 2 m from the slit will a bright
fringe from one interference pattern coincide with a

(NEET 2019)
bright fringe from the other?
15. In a Young’ double slit experiment if there is no
(a) 4 mm (b) 3 mm

initial phase difference between the light from the

two slits, a point on the screen corresponding to the (c) 8 mm

(d) 6 mm (NEET 2013)

fifth minimum has path difference. 22. In Young’s double slit experiment the distance

λ λ λ λ between the slits and the screen is doubled. The

(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) 9 (d) 11 separation between the slits is reduced to half. As a
2 2 2 2

(Odisha NEET 2019) result the fringe width

(a) is halved


16. In Young’s double slit experiment the separation d

(b) becomes four times

between the slits is 2 mm, the wavelength l of the

(c) remains unchanged

light used is 5896 Å and distance D between the screen

(d) is doubled. (Karnataka NEET 2013)

and slits is 100 cm. It is found that the angular width


of the fringes is 0.20°. To increase the fringe angular 23. Colours appear on a thin soap film and on soap

bubbles due to the phenomenon of

width to 0.21° (with same l and D) the separation
(a) interference (b) dispersion
between the slits needs to be changed to

(c) refraction (d) diffraction. (1999)

(a) 1.8 mm (b) 1.9 mm

(c) 2.1 mm
(d) 1.7 mm (NEET 2018) 24. In a Fresnel biprism experiment, the two positions of

17. Young’s double slit experiment is first performed in air lens give separation between the slits as 16 cm and 9 cm
and then in a medium other than air. It is found that 8th respectively. What is the actual distance of separation?
bright fringe in the medium lies where 5th dark fringe (a) 13 cm (b) 14 cm

lies in air. The refractive index of the medium is nearly (c) 12.5 cm
(d) 12 cm (1995)

(a) 1.59 (b) 1.69 (c) 1.78 (d) 1.25 25. Interference was observed in interference chamber
(NEET 2017)

where air was present, now the chamber is evacuated,

18. The intensity at the maximum in a Young’s double and if the same light is used, a careful observer will see
slit experiment is I0. Distance between two slits is (a) no interference

d = 5l, where l is the wavelength of light used in the (b) interference with brighter bands

experiment. What will be the intensity in front of one (c) interference with dark bands

of the slits on the screen placed at a distance D = 10d ? (d) interference with larger width. (1993)
I

3 I
(a) I0 (b) 0 (c) I0 (d) 0 26. If yellow light emitted by sodium lamp in Young’s
4 2 4

double slit experiment is replaced by monochromatic

(NEET-I 2016) blue light of the same intensity
19. Two slits in Young’s experiment have widths in the

(a) fringe width will decrease

ratio 1 : 25. The ratio of intensity at the maxima and (b) fringe width will increase

I (c) fringe width will remain unchanged

minima in the interference pattern, max is

Imin (d) fringes will becomes less intense

(1992)
90 NEET-AIPMT Chapterwise Topicwise Solutions Physics

27. In Young’s double slit experiment carried out with (a) 9 : 4 (b) 3 : 2




light of wavelength (l) = 5000 Å, the distance (c) 16 : 81 (d) 8 : 27 (NEET 2017)

between the slits is 0.2 mm and the screen is at 34. A linear aperture whose width is 0.02 cm is placed
200 cm from the slits. The central maximum is at

immediately in front of a lens of focal length 60 cm.
x = 0. The third maximum (taking the central The aperture is illuminated normally by a parallel
maximum as zeroth maximum) will be at x equal to beam of wavelength 5 × 10–5 cm. The distance of the
(a) 1.67 cm (b) 1.5 cm first dark band of the diffraction pattern from the




(c) 0.5 cm (d) 5.0 cm (1992) centre of the screen is




28. In Young’s experiment, two coherent sources are (a) 0.10 cm (b) 0.25 cm

placed 0.90 mm apart and fringes are observed one (c) 0.20 cm (d) 0.15 cm

metre away. If it produces second dark fringe at a (NEET-II 2016)

distance of 1 mm from central fringe, the wavelength 35. In a diffraction pattern due to a single slit of width
of monochromatic light is used would be

a, the first minimum is observed at an angle 30° when
(a) 60 × 10–4 cm (b) 10 × 10–4 cm light of wavelength 5000 Å is incident on the slit.



(c) 10 × 10 cm
–5
(d) 6 × 10–5 cm (1991) The first secondary maximum is observed at an




29. In Young’s double slit experiment, the fringes width angle of
1 −1  3 

is found to be 0.4 mm. If the whole apparatus is (a) sin−1   (b) sin  
2 4
immersed in water of refractive index 4 , without

3 −1  1  2
(c) sin   (d) sin−1  
disturbing the geometrical arrangement, the new
4 3

(NEET-I 2016)
fringe width will be
(a) 0.30 mm (b) 0.40 mm 36. In a double slit experiment, the two slits are




(c) 0.53 mm (d) 450 micron. (1990) 1 mm apart and the screen is placed 1 m away. A




monochromatic light of wavelength 500 nm is used.
30. The Young’s double slit experiment is performed with
What will be the width of each slit for obtaining ten

blue and with green light of wavelengths 4360 Å and
maxima of double slit within the central maxima of
5460 Å respectively. If x is the distance of 4th maxima
single slit pattern?
from the central one, then
(a) 0.5 mm (b) 0.02 mm
(a) x(blue) = x(green) (b) x(blue) > x(green)



(c) 0.2 mm (d) 0.1 mm



x(blue) 5460



(c) x(blue) < x(green) (d) = (2015 Cancelled)
x(green) 4360



37. At the first minimum adjacent to the central
(1990)

maximum of a single-slit diffraction pattern, the

10.6 Diffraction phase difference between the Huygen’s wavelet
from the edge of the slit and the wavelet from the
31. Assume that light of wavelength 600 nm is coming midpoint of the slit is

from a star. The limit of resolution of telescope π
whose objective has a diameter of 2 m is (a) p radian (b) radian
8



(a) 3.66 × 10–7 rad (b) 1.83 × 10–7 rad π π
(c) radian (d) radian (2015)



(c) 7.32 × 10 rad
–7
(d) 6.00 × 10–7 rad 4 2







(NEET 2020) 38. A beam of light of l = 600 nm from a distant source

32. An astronomical refracting telescope will have large falls on a single slit 1 mm wide and the resulting

angular magnification and high angular resolution, diffraction pattern is observed on a screen 2 m
when it has an objective lens of away. The distance between first dark fringes on
(a) small focal length and large diameter either side of the central bright fringe is

(b) large focal length and small diameter (a) 1.2 cm (b) 1.2 mm




(c) large focal length and large diameter (c) 2.4 cm (d) 2.4 mm (2014)





(d) small focal length and small diameter. 39. A parallel beam of fast moving electrons is incident

(NEET 2018)

normally on a narrow slit. A fluorescent screen is
33. The ratio of resolving powers of an optical placed at a large distance from the slit. If the speed

microscope for two wavelengths l1 = 4000 Å and of the electrons is increased, which of the following
l2 = 6000 Å is statements is correct?
Wave Optics 91

(a) The angular width of the central maximum will

45. A parallel beam of monochromatic light of
decrease. wavelength 5000 Å is incident normally on a single
(b) The angular width of the central maximum will

narrow slit of width 0.001 mm. The light is focussed

be unaffected. by a convex lens on a screen placed in focal plane.
(c) Diffraction pattern is not observed on the screen
The first minimum will be formed for the angle of

in the case of electrons.

(d) The angular width of the central maximum of diffraction equal to
(a) 0° (b) 15° (c) 30° (d) 50°

the diffraction pattern will increase.

(NEET 2013)  (1993)

40. A parallel beam of light of wavelength l is incident
10.7 Polarisation

normally on a narrow slit. A diffraction pattern

formed on a screen placed perpendicular to the 46. The Brewsters angle ib for an interface should be

direction of the incident beam. At the second (a) 0° < ib < 30°
(b) 30° < ib < 45°

minimum of the diffraction pattern, the phase (c) 45° < ib < 90°
(d) ib = 90° (NEET 2020)


difference between the rays coming from the two

47. Unpolarised light is incident from air on
edges of slit is

a plane surface of a material of refractive

(a) 2p (b) 3p (c) 4p (d) pl
index m. At a particular angle of incidence i,

(Karnataka NEET 2013)

it is found that the reflected and refracted rays are
41. The angular resolution of a 10 cm diameter telescope

perpendicular to each other. Which of the following

at a wavelength of 5000 Å is of the order of options is correct for this situation?
(a) 106 rad
(b) 10–2 rad

(a) Reflected light is polarised with its electric

(c) 10 rad
–4
(d) 10–6 rad (2005)

vector parallel to the plane of incidence.

42. A telescope has an objective lens of 10 cm diameter
(b) Reflected light is polarised with its electric

and is situated at a distance of one kilometre from vector perpendicular to the plane of incidence.
two objects. The minimum distance between these
two objects, which can be resolved by the telescope, 1 1
(c) i = sin−1   (d) i = tan−1  
when the mean wavelength of light is 5000 Å, is of µ µ

the order of (NEET 2018)

(a) 0.5 m (b) 5 m
48. Two polaroids P1 and P2 are placed with their axis

(c) 5 mm (d) 5 cm (2004)

perpendicular to each other. Unpolarised light I0 is

43. Diameter of human eye lens is 2 mm. What will

incident on P1. A third polaroid P3 is kept in between

be the minimum distance between two points to P1 and P2 such that its axis makes an angle 45° with
resolve them, which are situated at a distance of that of P1. The intensity of transmitted light through
50 meter from eye? (The wavelength of light is 5000 Å.) P2 is
(a) 2.32 m (b) 4.28 mm
I0 I0 I0 I0

(c) 1.25 cm
(d) 12.48 cm
(2002) 
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 8 16 2

44. Ray optics is valid, when characteristic dimensions are

(a) much smaller than the wavelength of light

(NEET 2017)
(b) of the same order as the wavelength of light

49. Which of the phenomenon is not common to sound

(c) of the order of one millimetre

and light waves ?
(d) much larger than the wavelength of light.
(a) Interference
(b) Diffraction

(1994, 1989) (c) Coherence

(d) Polarisation (1988)

ANSWER KEY
1. (d) 2. (b)
3. (d) 4.
(d) 5.
(b) 6.
(a) 7. (c)
8. (c)
9.
(a) 10. (b)

11. (a) 12. (c)

13. (c)
14. (c) 15. (c)
16. (b) 17. (c)
18. (b)
19.
(c) 20. (c)

21. (d) 22. (b)

23. (a) 24. (d) 25. (d) 26. (a) 27. (b) 28. (d) 29.
(a) 30. (c)

31. (a) 32. (c)

33. (b)
34. (d) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (a)
38. (d) 39.
(a) 40. (c)

41. (c) 42. (c)

43. (c)
44. (d) 45. (c)
46. (c) 47. (b) 48. (b)
49.
(d)