ENGINEERING PHYSICS PHY101/102 1. Two waves of the same frequency have amplitudes 1.00 and 2.00.

They interfere at a point where their phase difference is 60.00 . What is the resultant amplitude? 2. Light of wavelength 624 nm is incident perpendicularly on a soap film(refractive index =1.33) suspended in air. What are the least two thicknesses of the film for which the reflections from the film undergo fully constructive interference ? 3. Suppose Youngs experiment is performed with blue green light of wavelength 500 nm. The slits are 1.20 mm apart, and the viewing screen is 5.40 m from the slit. How far apart are the bright fringes? 4. In a double slit experiment the distance between slits is 5.0 mm and the slits are 1.0 m from the screen. Two interference patterns can be seen on the screen: one due to light with wavelength 480 nm, and the other due to light with wavelength 600 nm. What is the separation on the screen between the third order (n = 3) bright fringes of the two interference pattern? 5. A single slit is illuminated by light of wavelength a and b , chosen so the first diffraction minimum of the a component coincides with the second minimum of the

b component. (a) What relationship exists between the two wavelengths? (b) Do any
other minima in the two diffraction pattern coincide? 6. A source containing a mixture of hydrogen and deuterium atoms emits red light at two wavelengths whose mean is 656.3 nm and whose separation is 0.180 nm. Find the minimum number of lines needed in a diffraction grating that can resolve these lines in the first order. 7. Assume that the limits of the visible spectrum are arbitrarily chosen as 430 nm and 680 nm. Calculate the number of rulings per millimeter of a grating that will spread the first order spectrum through an angle of 200 ?

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ENGINEERING PHYSICS PHY101/102 8. Explain Youngs double slit experiment and obtain an expression for the fringe width on the screen in terms of distance to the screen, the wavelength of light used and the slit separation. 9. Suppose two identical waves are traveling in opposite directions and are represented by y1 ( x, t ) = ym sin ( kx t ) y2 ( x, t ) = ym sin ( kx + t ) Obtain an expression for the interference of these two sinusoidal waves. 10. Find the sum y of the following quantities: y1 = 10sin t y2 = 8.0sin(t + 300 ) 11. A broad beam of monochromatic light is directed perpendicular through two glass plates that are held together at one end to create a wedge of air between them. An observer intercepting light reflected from the wedge of air , which acts as thin film, sees 4001 dark fringes along the length of the wedge. When the air between the plate is evacuated, only 4000 dark fringes are seen. Calculate the index of refraction of air from these data. Take the refractive index of vacuum as unity.

12. Bright light of wavelength 585 nm is incident perpendicularly on a soap film ( = 1.33) of thickness 1.21 m , suspended in air. Is the light reflected by the two surfaces of the film closer to interfering fully destructively or fully constructively? 13. Sound waves with frequency 3000 Hz and speed 343 m/s diffract through the rectangular opening of a speaker cabinet and into a large auditorium. The opening which has horizontal width of 30 cm faces a wall 100 m away. Where along that wall will a listener be at the

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ENGINEERING PHYSICS PHY101/102 first diffraction minimum and thus have difficulty hearing the sound?(neglect reflections)

14. At night many people see rings (called entopic halos) surrounding bright outdoor lamps in otherwise dark surroundings. The rings are the first of the side maxima in diffraction patterns produced by structures that are thought to be within the cornea (or possibly the lens) of the observers eye (the central maxima of such patterns overlap the lamp). a. b. ring? Give reasons for your conclusions for questions (a) and (b) 15. White light with a uniform intensity across the visible wavelength range of 400 to 690 nm, is perpendicularly incident on a water film, of index of refraction n2 = 1.33 and thickness L = 320 nm, that is suspended in air. At what wavelength is the light reflected by the film brightest to an observer. 16. A slit of width a is illuminated by white light (which consists of the entire wavelength in the visible range). For what value of a will the first minimum for red light of wavelength =650 nm appear at = 150 ? 17. A glass lens is coated on one side with a thin film of Magnesium Fluoride (MgF2) to reduce reflection from the lens surface. The index of refraction of MgF2 is 1.38; that of the glass is 1.50. What is the least coating thickeness that eliminates (via interference) the reflections at the middle of the visible spectrum ( =550 nm)? Assume that the light is approximately perpendicular to the lens surface. 18. Three light waves combine at a certain point where their electric field components are E1 = 10sin ( t ) E2 = 15sin ( t + 300 ) E3 = 5sin ( t 450 ) Would a particular ring become smaller or larger if the lamp were If a lamp emits white light, is blue or red on the outside edge of the switched from blue to red light?

Find the resultant field at that point by adding the three fields and represent Page 3

ENGINEERING PHYSICS PHY101/102 the resultant light field in the form of resultant amplitude and resultant phase as ER = Em sin ( t + )

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