1. A point source of wavelength 500nm is placed 5.

0 m away from the zone plate whose central zone has the diameter 2.3 mm. Find the position of the primary image. 2. A zone plate is constructed in such a way that the radii of the circles which define the zones are the same as the radii of Newtons dark rings formed between a plane surface and surface having radius of curvature of 2.0 m. a) Find the primary focal length of the zone plate and b) secondary foci 3. Monochromatic light of wavelength 441 nm falls on a narrow slit on a screen 2.16m away, the distance between the second minimum and the central maximum is 1.62 cm (a). calculate the angle of diffraction of the second minimum (b). find the width of the slit 4. Light of wavelength 633 nm is incident on a narrow slit. The angle between the 1 st minimum on one side of the central maximum and the 1st minimum on the other side is 1.97. Find the width of the slit. 5. A plane wave, with wavelength 593nm falls on a slit of width 420 m. A thin converging lens having a focal length of 71.4 cm is placed behind the slit and focuses the light on a screen. Find the distance on the screen from the center of the pattern to the second minimum 6. In a single slit diffraction pattern the distance between the 1st minimum on the right and the 1st minimum on the left is 5.2 mm. The screen on which the pattern is displayed is 82.3 cm from the slit and the wavelength is 546 nm calculate the slit width. 7. Calculate approximately the relative intensities of the maxima in the single slit Fraunhofer diffraction pattern. 8. In a double slit experiment, the distance D of the screen from the slits is 52cm, the wavelength is 480nm, the slit separation is 0.12mm and the slit width is 0.025mm (a) what is the spacing between adjacent fringes (b) what is the distance from the central maximum to the first minimum of the fringe envelope 9. The wall of a large room is covered with acoustic tile in which small holes are drilled 5.2mm from the center to the center. How far can a person be from such a tile and still distinguish individual holes assuming ideal conditions? Assume the diameter of the pupil of the observers eye to be 4.6mm and the wavelength to be 542nm . 10. The two head lights of an approaching automobile are 1.42 m apart. At what (a) angular separation and (b) maximum distance will the eye resolve them? Assume a pupil diameter of 5 mm and a wavelength of 562 nm. Also assume that the diffraction effects alone limit the resolution. 11. A certain grating has 104 slits with a spacing d = 2100 nm. It is illuminated with a light of wavelength 589 nm. Find (a) The angular positions of all principal maxima observed and (b) the angular width of the largest order maximum 12. A diffraction grating has 104 rulings uniformly spaced over 25 mm. It is illuminated normally using a sodium lamp containing two wavelengths 589.0 and 589.59 nm.

(a) At what angle will the first order maximum occur for the first of these wavelengths? (b). what is the angular separation between the first order maxima for these lines. 13. A diffraction grating has 1.2 x 104 rulings uniformly spaced over a width w = 2.5 cm and is illuminated normally using sodium light containing two wavelengths 589 and 589.59nm. (a) at what angle does the first order maximum occur for the first of these wavelengths (b) what is the angular separation between these two lines in the first order (c) how close in wavelength can two lines be in the first order and still be resolved by this grating (d) how many rulings can a grating have and just resolve the sodium doublet lines. 14. A plane transmission diffraction grating has 200 rulings/mm and the principal maximum is noted at 28. What are the possible wavelengths of the incident visible light? 15. A grating has 40,000 rulings spread over 76 mm. (a) What is its expected dispersion D in /nm for sodium light ( = 589 nm) in the first three orders? (b) What is its resolving power in these orders?