Wave Optics Concepts

   Friday, August 14, 2020   

Wave Optics include all Definitions, Laws, Diagrams, Rules, Examples, Results etc.

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What is Light | Newton’s corpuscular theory | Introduction to Newton's Corpuscular Theory of Light | Failures of Newton’s corpuscular theory | Corpuscular theory about refraction of light | Corpuscular theory about reflection of light | Wavefront | Huygens Principle

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Different kinds of waveforms | Shape of emergent wavefront when plane wavefront is incident on an optical instrument | Reflection using Huygen's principle | Refraction using Huygen's principle | Describe the drawbacks of Huygen's Wave Theory | Effect on wavelength of light in medium change | Calculation of Optical Path | Write and use equation of apparent frequency for Doppler effect in light

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Applications of Doppler effect in light | Describe the applications of Doppler Effect in Light | Red shift and Blue shift | Radial velocity for distant galaxy | Problem on Intensity of unpolarized light | Doppler effect | Constructive and Destructive interference | Condition for constructive interference | Use of relation between path & phase difference | Write intensity as a function of phase difference for two coherent light sources

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Fringes on the screen in Young's Experiment | Describe Young's experiment to produce interference patterns | Solve problems on interference on a screen where a slab is introduced in front of a slit to create phase difference | Problem on luminous intensity | Superposition principle | Coherent and Incoherent Sources | Coherent Sources | Interference Pattern for white light

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Problems on points on screen with minimum and maximum intensity in YDSE | Write intensity as a function of height from centre of screen in YDSE for two coherent light sources of equal intensity | Problem on maximum and minimum intensity ratio calculation during interference | Intensity vs height on screen in YDSE | Plot intensity vs height on screen in YDSE | Describe the importance of YDSE | Find the ratio of maximum to minimum itensity | Shift of fringes when a slab/lens in introduced in front of a slit

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Define and calculate fringe width and angular fringe width in YDSE | Solve problems on interference on a screen where initial path difference is given | Solve problems on interference on a screen where two coherent sources are created by reflection | Problems related to change of intensity because of change of slit width | Problems on interference in glass slab | Calculate the slit width and other paremaeters of YDSE | Diffraction of light | Position of fringes due to diffraction

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Energy redistribution in diffraction and interference | Differentiate between fresnel's and fraunhofer's diffraction | Interference and diffraction | Fresnel distance | Construction and Working of Fresnel's Biprism Experiment | Calculate the refractive index of the material of the biprism | Calculate the seperation between the slits in the Fresnel's biprism | Position of fringes in biprism experiment

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Fringe width in Fresnel biprism | Radius of central bright region | Single slit experiment | Detection of Plane Polarised light by polaroid | Polarised and unpolarised light | Brewster's Law and Polarisation by reflection | Partially polarized light | Problem on Brewster's angle

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Polarization of light waves | Polarization by double refraction | Polarization by dichroism | Polarisation by scattering | Definition and use of Malus' law | Polaroids | Light through two polaroids | Uses of Polaroids