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Wave Optics has been asked in 0 of the 38 years of NEET NTA papers analysed (1988–2025), with 222 questions in all. 100% of them were easy, 0% moderate and 0% tough. Most of its questions came from 2025, with 0 questions that year. In the last three years (2023–2025) it had 0 questions across 6 papers, about 0 per paper.

All of the chapter's questions come from a single topic, Uncategorized.

  1. 1A single slit of width b is illuminated by a coherent monochromatic light of wavelength λ . If the second and fourth minima in the diffracti
  2. 2The maximum intensity in Young's double-slit experiment is I 0 . Distance between the slits is d = 5 λ , where λ is the wavelength of monoch
  3. 3If velocity of a galaxy relative to earth is 1.2 × 10 6 m s - 2 then % increase in wavelength of light from galaxy as compared to the simila
  4. 4In the ideal double-slit experiment, when a glass-plate (refractive index 1.5) of thickness t is introduced in the path of one of the interf
  5. 5In Young's double-slit experiment, the intensities at two points P 1 and P 2 on the screen are I 1 and I 2 , respectively. If P 1 is located
  6. 6In a double-slit experiment, the separation between the slits is d = 0.25 cm and the distance of the screen D = 100 cm from the slits. If th
  7. 7Two identical narrow slits S 1 and S 2 are illuminated by the light of a wavelength λ from a point source P . If, as shown in the diagram ab
  8. 8A metallic surface ejects electrons when exposed to green light of intensity I but no photoelectrons are emitted, when exposed to the yellow
  9. 9In the phenomenon of diffraction of light, when blue light is used in the experiment instead of red light, then
  10. 10In an ideal double-slit experiment, when a glass - plate μ = 1.5 of thickness t is introduced in the path of one interfering beams (waveleng
  11. 11An unpolarised beam of intensity I 0 is incident on a pair of nicol prisms making an angle of 60 ° with each other. The intensity of light e
  12. 12According to Huygen's principle, during refraction of light from air to a denser medium
  13. 13In Fraunhofer diffraction pattern, slit width is 0.2 mm and screen is at 2 m away from the lens. If wavelength of light used is 5000 Å then
  14. 14A double-slit apparatus is immersed in a liquid of refractive index 1 . 33 . It has slit separation of 1 mm and distance between the plane o
  15. 15The intensity of the light coming from one of the slits in YDSE is double the intensity from the other slit. Find the ratio of maximum inten
  16. 16In the figure, if a parallel beam of white light is incident on the plane of the slits S 1 and S 2 then the distance of the nearest white sp
  17. 17In Young's double-slit experiment, spacing between the two slits is 0.1 m m . If the screen is kept at a distance of 1.0 m from the slits an
  18. 18The distance between two coherent sources is 1 mm. The screen is placed at a distance of 1 m from the sources. If the distance of the third
  19. 19At the time of total solar eclipse, the spectrum of solar radiation will have
  20. 20In Young's double slit experiment, one of the slit is wider than another, so that amplitude of the light from one slit is double of that fro
  21. 21A light of wavelength 6000 Å is incident on a single slit. First minimum is obtained at a distance of 0 . 4 cm from the centre. If width of
  22. 22What is the reason behind the disturbing of incoming and reflected signals when a low flying aircraft passes overhead, which results in slig
  23. 23The maximum number of possible interference maxima for slit-separation equal to twice the wavelength in Young's double - slit experiment is
  24. 24In Young's double slit experiment, the light emitted from source has λ = 6.5 × 10 - 7 m and the distance between the two slits is 1 mm. Dist
  25. 25If the wavelength of light coming from a distant galaxy is found to be 0.5 % more than that coming from a source on earth. Then the velocity
  26. 26In Young's double slit experiment, distance between the slits S 1 and S 2 is d and the distance between slits and screen is D . Then longest
  27. 27In Young's double-slit experiment, d = 0 . 1 mm , D = 20 cm , and λ = 5460 Å , the angular position of first dark fringe will be
  28. 28In Young's double-slit experiment, the distance between slits and the screen is 1 m and monochromatic light of wavelength 600 nm is being us
  29. 29For an interference pattern, the maximum and minimum intensity ratio is 64 : 1 , then what will be the ratio of amplitudes?
  30. 30The central fringe shifts to the position of fifth bright fringe, if a thin film of refractive index 1 . 5 is introduced in the path of ligh
  31. 31A beam of light ( λ = 600 nm ) from a distant source falls on a single slit 1 mm wide and the resulting diffraction pattern is observed on a
  32. 32The Young's double-slit experiment is performed with blue and with the green light of wavelengths 4360 A ∘ and 5460 A ∘ respectively. If x i
  33. 33The diffraction pattern of a single slit is shown in the figure. The point at which the path difference of the extreme rays is two times the
  34. 34In single slit diffraction of light of wavelength λ by a slit of width e , the size of the central maximum on a screen at a distance b is
  35. 35Two Polaroids are placed in the path of an unpolarized beam of intensity I 0 such that no light is emitted from the second polaroid. If a th
  36. 36The fringes produced in diffraction patterns _____.
  37. 37In a Young's double slit experiment, slits are separated by 0 . 5 mm , and the screen is placed 150 cm away. A beam of light consisting of t
  38. 38A slit of width a is illuminated by white light. The first minimum for red light λ = 6500 Å will fall at θ = 30 o , when a is
  39. 39A narrow slit of width 1 m m is illuminated by monochromatic light of wavelength 600 n m . The distance between the first minima on either s
  40. 40A parallel beam of monochromatic light of wavelength 5000 Å is incident normally on a single narrow slit of width 0.001 mm. The light is foc
  41. 41In Young's double slit experiment a mica plate of refractive index μ is introduced in the path of light coming from one of the slit. If the
  42. 42A slit of width a is illuminated by white light. The first minimum for red light λ = 6500 Å will fall at θ = 30 ° , when a is
  43. 43In a given region of 10 fringes are observed in the reflected beam from a thin film. If the wavelength of the incident light is changed from
  44. 44In a Fraunhoffer diffraction experiment at a single slit using light of wavelength 400 nm , the first minimum is formed at an angle of 30 °
  45. 45From Brewster's law, except for polished metallic surface, the polarising angle
  46. 46Two coherent point sources S 1 and S 2 vibrating in phase emit light of wavelength λ . The separation between them is 2 λ . The light is col
  47. 47Resolving power of telescope increases when
  48. 48In Young's double-slit experiment, if yellow light is replaced by blue light, the interference fringes becomes
  49. 49In a Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit, if yellow light illuminating slit is replaced by blue light, then diffraction bands
  50. 50A polarized light of intensity I 0 is passed through another polarizer whose pass axis makes an angle of 60 o with the pass axis of the form

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