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Physics - Wave Optics

Practise 22 KVPY previous year questions on Wave Optics, compiled from papers spanning 2010 to 2020. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty KVPY tests.

  1. 1Which is the following colourful patterns is due to diffraction of light?2020 (SA)
  2. 2A right-angle isosceles prism is held on the surface of a liquid composed of miscible solvents A and B of refractive index n A = 1 . 50 and 2020 (SB/SX)
  3. 3A camera filled with a polarizer is placed on a mountain, in a manner to record only the reflected image of the sun from the surface of a se2020 (SB/SX)
  4. 4A source simultaneously emitting light at two wavelengths 400 nm and 800 nm is used in the Young s double slit experiment. If the intensity 2020 (SB/SX)
  5. 5A student is jogging on a straight path with the speed 5 . 4 km per hour. Perpendicular to the path is kept a pipe with its opening 8 m from2020 (SB/SX)
  6. 6Unpolarised red light is incident on the surface of a lake at incident angle R . An observer seeing the light reflected from the water surfa2019 (SB/SX)
  7. 7Which of the following is not true about the total lunar eclipse?2018 (SA)
  8. 8In Young s double slit experiment, the amplitudes of the two waves incident on the two slits are A and 2 A . If I 0 is the maximum intensity2018 (SB/SX)
  9. 9Three circularly shaped linear polarisers are placed coaxially. The transmission axis of the first polariser is at , the second one is at an19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  10. 10A light beam travelling along the axis with planar wavefront is incident on a medium of thickness . In the region, where light is falling th19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  11. 11Consider a plane parallel beam of light incident on a plano-cylindrical lens as shown below. Which of the following will you observe on a sc19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  12. 12A total solar eclipse is observed from the earth. At the same an observer on the moon views the earth. She is most likely to see (E denotes 05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  13. 13Two circularly shaped linear polarisers are placed coaxially. The transmission axis of the first polarizer is at from the vertical while the05 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  14. 14A monochromatic light source of wavelength is placed slightly above a plane mirror as shown. Image of in can be used as a virtual source to 2016 (SB/SX)
  15. 15A beam of monoenergetic electrons, which have been accelerated from rest by a potential , is used to form an interference pattern in a Young2015 (SB/SX)
  16. 16One end of a slack wire (Young's modulus Y, length and cross-sectional area A) is clamped to a rigid wall and the other end to a block (mass2015 (SB/SX)
  17. 17Monochromatic light passes through a prism. Compares to that in air, inside the prism the light's2014 (SB/SX)
  18. 18An unpolarized beam of light of intensity passes through two linear polarizers making an angle of with respect to each other. The emergent b2012 (SB/SX)
  19. 19In a Young's double slit experiment the intensity of light at each slit is . Interference pattern in observed along a direction parallel to 2012 (SB/SX)
  20. 20A plane polarized light passed through successive polarizers which are rotated by with respect to each other in the clockwise direction. Neg2011 (SB/SX)
  21. 21In a Young's double slit set-up, light from a laser source falls on a pair of very narrow slits separated by micrometer and bright fringes s2011 (SB/SX)
  22. 22In Young's double slit experiment, the distance between the two slits is , the distance between the slits and the screen is and the waveleng2010 (SB/SX)

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Wave Optics?

This chapter includes 22 questions compiled from KVPY papers spanning 2010 to 2020.

2.Are these questions only from KVPY, or from other exams too?

These are KVPY questions specifically for the Wave Optics chapter. Questions from other exams like JEE Main or NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Wave Optics an important chapter for KVPY Physics?

Wave Optics has appeared in 10 of the 11 years of KVPY papers covered here, with 22 questions across 14 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.