16.

Describe Young’s double slit experiment to produce interference pattern due to a

monochromatic source of light. Deduce the expression for the fringe width.
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Young’s double slit experiment :

17. (i) Draw a neat labelled diagram of a compound microscope. Explain briefly its working.
(ii) Why must both the objective and the eyepiece of a compound microscope have short focal
lengths?
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(i) Compound microscope is used to see extremely small objects. It consists of two lenses.
18. Draw a labelled ray diagram of a refracting telescope. Define its magnifying power and write
the expression for it. Write two important limitations of a refracting telescope over a reflecting
type telescope.
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19. (i) Draw a neat labelled ray diagram of an astronomical telescope in normal adjustment.
Explain briefly its working.
(ii) An astronomical telescope uses two lenses of powers 10 D and 1 D. What is its magnifying
power in normal adjustment?
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(i) An astronomical telescope in normal adjustment. Ray diagram is shown below.
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20. Use Huygen’s principle to verify the laws of refraction.

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Verification of Snell’s law of refraction by using Huygen’s principle.
Snell’s law of refraction.

21. (a) What is linearly polarized light? Describe briefly using a diagram how sunlight is polarised.
(b) Unpolarised light is incident on a polaroid. How would the intensity of transmitted light
change when the polaroid is rotated?
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(a) If the electric field vector of a light wave vibrates just in one direction perpendicular to the
direction of the propagation then it is said to be linearly polarised.
(b) Same/Unchanged/constant

22. (a) Describe briefly, with the help of suitable diagram, how the transverse nature of light can
be demonstrated by the phenomenon of polarization.
(b) When unpolarized light passes from air to transparent medium, under what condition does
the reflected light get polarized?
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(a) If two thin plates of tourmaline crystals T1 and T2 are rotated with the same angular velocity in
the same direction as shown in the figure below, no change in intensity of transmitted light is
observed.
12. (a) For a ray of light travelling from a denser medium of refractive index n1 to a rarer
n
medium of refractive index n2, prove that 2  sin ic , where ic is the critical angle of incidence
n1
for the media.
(b) Explain with the help of a diagram, how the above principle is used for transmission of
video signals using optical fibres.
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11. (a) Write three characteristic features to distinguish between the interference fringes in
Young’s double slit experiment and the diffraction pattern obtained due to a narrow single slit.
(b) A parallel beam of light of wavelength 500 nm falls on a narrow slit and the resulting
diffraction pattern is observed on a screen 1 m away. It is observed that the first minimum is a
distance of 2.5 mm away from the centre. Find the width of the slit.
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10. Describe briefly how a diffraction pattern is obtained on a screen due to a single
narrow slit illuminated by a monochromatic source of light. Hence obtain the conditions for
the angular width of secondary maxima and secondary minima.