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MCQ’s on Nature of
Light

1. It is the phenomenon in which light waves support or cancel effect of each other:
(a) Diffraction (b) Reflection
(c) Refraction (d) Interference of light

2. When two waves passes through the same region at the same time, they produce
disturbance in the particles of the medium. The combined effect of two sets of
waves is known as:
(a) Diffraction (b) Interference
(c) Refraction (d) None of these

3. The phenomenon in which light waves support each other so that the resultant
intensity of the light waves increases is known as:
(a) Constructive interference (b) Destructive interference
(c) Diffraction (d) None of these

4. The phenomenon in which light waves cancel the effect of each other so that the
resultant intensity of light waves decreases is known as:
(a) Destructive interference (b) Constructive interference
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

5. If the resultant intensity of the interfering waves is zero or less than the intensity of
an individual wave then this type of interference is known as:
(a) Constructive interference
(b) Destructive interference
(c) Constructive and destructive interference
(d) None of these

6. If the resultant intensity of the interfering waves is greater than the intensity of the
individual waves, then this type of interference is known as:
(a) Constructive interference (b) Destructive interference
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

7. The superposition of two light wave is called:

(a) Reflection (b) Dispersion
(c) Interference (d) Diffraction

8. To obtain interference of light the condition which most met is that source must be:
(a) Phase coherence
(b) Monochromatic
(c) Phase coherence and monochromatic
(d) None of these

9. Constructive interference takes place when the path difference  between light
waves is:

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(a) Zero (b) Integral multiple of wave length

(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

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10. Destructive interference takes place when the path difference ‘’ between light
waves is:
(a) Zero (b) Odd multiple of /2
(c) Integral multiple of  (d) Odd multiple of 

11.  = (n + ½)
When (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ………) is the condition of:
(a) Constructive interference (b) Destructive interference
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

12. Young’s double slit experiment can be used to determine what?

(a) Wavelength of Monochromatic Light
(b) Fringe spacing
(c) Grating element
(d) Phase difference

13. In young’s double slit experiment the condition for constructive interference is:
(a) d sin = n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(b) d sin = (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(c) d sin = (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(d) d sin = (n + ) (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)

14. In Young’s double slit experiment the condition for destructive interference is:
(a) d sin = n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(b) d sin = (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(c) d sin = (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)
(d) d sin = (n + ) (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, …)

15. In double slit experiment, the Fringe spacing is given by:

(a) (b)
(c) (d)

16. In Young’s double slit experiment, if d is the separation between slits. L is the
distance of screen from the slit, then the position of nth bright fringe Y n is given by
the relation:
(a) Yn = n (b) Yn = n
(c) Yn = n (d) Yn = n

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17. In Young’s double slit experiment, if d is the separation between the slits. L is the
distance from the slit, then the position of nth dark fringe Yn is given by the relation:
(a) Yn = n (b) Yn = n
(c) Yn = (n + ) (d) Yn = n

18. Which of the following phenomenon produces the colours in soap:

(a) Interference (b) Polarization
(c) Diffraction (d) Dispersion

19. Soap bubbles and oil thin layer floating on the water are the examples of:
(a) Thin film (b) Thick film
(c) Fresnel diffraction (d) Diffraction grating

20. The speed of light in a transparent medium whose index of refraction is ‘n’ is given
as:
(a) V = (b) V =
(c) V = cn (d) None of these

21. Condition for constructive interference in thin film is given as:

(a) 2t = (m + )  (b) 2t = (2m + ) 
(c) 2t = (m + ) (d) 2t = (m + )

22. Condition of destructive interference in thin film is given as:

(a) 2t = 3m (b) 2t = m
(c) 2t = m (d) None of these

23. Newton’s rings illustrate which of the one phenomenon?

(a) Interference (b) Diffraction
(c) Polarization (d) Rarefraction

24. In Newton’s rings, when interference pattern is viewed from above by means of
reflected light, the central spot always appears:
(a) White (b) Black
(c) Red (d) Green

25. When light passes through a sharp edge or hole the size of which is comparable
with the wave length of light it bends around the corners of obstacle and spread
out into its geometrical shadow. This phenomenon is called:
(a) Diffraction (b) Polarization
(c) Interference (d) Refraction

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26. When the source of light and the screen on which diffraction pattern is to be
obtained are at finite distances away from the diffraction object, the diffraction is
known as:
(a) Fresnel’s diffraction (b) Franhofer diffraction
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

27. When the source of light and screen are at infinite distances away from the
diffracting object, the diffraction is known as:
(a) Franhofer diffraction (b) Fresnel’s diffraction
(c) Diffraction (d) Both (a), (b) and (c)

28. A line or surface in the path of an advancing wave on which all the particles are in
the same phase is called:
(a) Wave front (b) A ray
(c) Wave crest (d) Wave trough

29. A _______ is a line which represent the direction of a wave:

(a) Ray (b) Line segment
(c) Wave front (d) None of these

30. A ray is always at _______ to the wave front:

(a) Parallel (b) Right angle
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these

31. A glass plate on which a number of parallel and equally spaced opaque lines are
ruled is known as:
(a) Diffraction gratting (b) Glass slab
(c) Blade (d) None of these

32. n = d sin is called as:

(a) Grating equation (b) Diffraction equation
(c) Interference equation (d) None of these

33. In diffraction gratting the spacing d between the centres of adjacent lines is called
as:
(a) Gratting element (b) Range
(c) Displacement (d) Phase difference

34. Gratting element ‘d’ may be found as:

(a) (b)
(c) (d) None of these

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35. Which device splits light beam into two parts and then recombines them to form an
interference pattern after they have travelled over different paths?
(a) Diffraction gratting (b) Michelson interferometer
(c) Prism (d) None of these

36. In Michelson interferometer, the wavelength of light is given by the expression

(where ‘n’ is the number of fringes and ‘d’ is he distance through which the mirror
is moved):
(a) d = n (b) d = 2n
(c) d = n (d) None of these

37. What is the use of Michelson interferometer?

(a) It is used to observe diffraction
(b) It is used for obtaining accurate measurements of wavelength.
(c) It is used to measure value of acceleration due to gravity.
(d) It is used to measure concentration of sugar in blood.

38. Who discovered x-rays?

(a) Roentgen (b) Fresenel
(c) Young (d) Michelson

39. The wavelength of x-rays is:

(a) 10 A° (b) 200 A°
(c) 1.0 A° (d) 1000 A°

40. In the middle of seventeenth century Newton presented:

(a) Corpuscular theory of light (b) Wave theory of light
(c) Electromagnetic theory of light (d) None of these

41. Hygen proposed:

(a) Corpuscular theory of light (b) Wave theory of light
(c) Particle theory of light (d) None of these

42. Thoma’s Young demonstrated that light has a:

(a) Wave nature (b) Particle nature
(c) Electromagnetic nature (d) None of these

43. In 1873 James Clark Maxwell showed that light waves are:
(a) Electromagnetic waves (b) Longitudinal waves
(c) Transverse waves (d) Mechanical waves

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