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In a Young’s double slit experiment, 16 fringes are observed in a certain segment of the screen when light of wavelength 700 nm is used. If the wavelength of light is changed to 400 nm, the number of fringes observed in the same segment of the screen would be:

1) 28 2) 24 3) 30 4) 18 Answer: (1) \(\begin{array}{l}y =\frac{D\lambda }{d}\end{array} \) \(\begin{array}{l}n_{1}\frac{D\lambda_{1} }{d}=n_{2}\frac{D\lambda_{2} }{d}\end{array} \) \(\begin{array}{l}\frac{n_{1}}{n_{2}}=\frac{\lambda _{2}}{\lambda... View Article

In a plane electromagnetic wave, the directions of electric field and magnetic field are represented by [latex]hat{k}[/latex] and [latex]2hat{i}-2hat{j}[/latex], respectively. What is the unit vector along direction of propagation of the wave.

1) \(\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\hat{i}+\hat{j})\end{array} \) 2) \(\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}(2\hat{i}+\hat{j})\end{array} \) 3) \(\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{\sqrt{5}}(\hat{i}+2\hat{j})\end{array} \) 4) \(\begin{array}{l}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\hat{j}+\hat{k})\end{array} \) Answer: (1) \(\begin{array}{l}\vec{E}\times\vec{B} =\hat{k}\times (2\hat{i}-2\hat{j})=2\hat{k}\times \hat{i}-2\hat{k}\times \hat{j} =... View Article

A wire carrying current I is bent in the shape ABCDEFA as shown, where rectangle ABCDA and ADEFA are perpendicular to each other. If the sides of the rectangles are of lengths a and b, then the magnitude and direction of magnetic moment of the loop ABCDEFA is:

1) \(\begin{array}{l}\sqrt{2}abI,along \left [ \frac{\hat{j}}{\sqrt{5}}+\frac{2\hat{k}}{\sqrt{5}} \right]\end{array} \) 2) \(\begin{array}{l}abI,along \left [ \frac{\hat{j}}{\sqrt{5}}+\frac{2\hat{k}}{\sqrt{5}} \right ]\end{array} \) 3) \(\begin{array}{l}\sqrt{2}abI,along \left [ \frac{\hat{j}}{\sqrt{2}}+\frac{\hat{k}}{\sqrt{2}}... View Article

Two uniform circular discs are rotating independently in the same direction around their common axis passing through their centres. The moment of inertia and angular velocity of the first disc are 0.1 kg –m2 and 10 rad s–1 respectively while those for the second one are 0.2 kg–m2 and 5 rad s–1 respectively. At some instant they get stuck together and start rotating as a single system about their common axis with some angular speed. The Kinetic energy of the combined system is:

1) 2/3 J 2) 10/3 J 3) 5/3 J 4) 20/3 J Answer: (4) \(\begin{array}{l}I_{1}\omega _{1}+I_{2}\omega _{2}=(I_{1}+I_{2})\omega\end{array} \) \(\begin{array}{l}\omega =\frac{I_{1}\omega... View Article