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JEE Wave Optics PYQs with Solutions

13 previous year questions from Wave Optics (JEE Main & Advanced NSEP) with answers and solutions. Numbered list, year tags, and one-tap solutions — built for serious JEE / NEET practice.

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About Wave Optics PYQs

Wave Optics has 13 previous year questions in the Quantrex Academy JEE Main & Advanced NSEP bank. The 13 questions in this list come from Olympiad workbook (13). Each question opens on its own page with the options, the correct answer and the worked solution where available.

Wave Optics questions with solutions

A slit of width a is illuminated by parallel monochromatic light of wavelength λ . The value of a at which the first minimum of the diffraction pattern will form at θ=30^ ^ ^ ∘ is

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Initially interference is observed with the entire experimental set up inside a chamber filled with air. Now the chamber is evacuated. With the same source of light used, a

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The Hubble telescope in orbit above the earth has a 2.4 m circular aperture. The telescope has equipment for detecting ultraviolet light. The minimum angular separation between

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Consider the diffraction pattern due to a single slit. The first maximum for a certain monochromatic light coincides with the first minimum for red light of wavelength 660 nm .

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Which of the following sources emits light having highest degree of coherence?

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Light of wavelength 640 nm falls on a plane diffraction grating with 12000 lines per inch. In the diffraction pattern on a screen kept at a distance of 12 cm from the grating, the

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An unpolarized light of intensity 32 ~W / m^2 passes through three polarizers, such that the transmission axis of last polarizer is crossed with that of the first. If the

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White light is used to illuminate two slits in Young's double sit experiment. Separation between the two slits is b and the screen is at a distance D( b) from the plane of slits.

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Select the correct statement(s), out of the following, about diffraction at N parallel slits.

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The distance between two slits in Young's double slits experiment is d=2.5 ~mm and the distance of the screen from the plane of slits is D=120 ~cm . The slits are illuminated with

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In a young's double slit experiment distance between slits is d=1 ~mm , Wavelength of light used is 600 nm and distance of screen from the plane of slits is D=1 ~m . The minimum

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Given that the critical angle of incidence for total internal reflection within a transparent material when placed in air is 45^ ^ ^ ∘ . The Brewster's angle of incidence for

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In an experiment with Lummer Gehrecke plate, the two coherent beams of light, caused by multiple reflections inside the transparent plate of refractive index μ=1.54 , reach the

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Main Wave Optics list

The larger JEE Wave Optics list is under Physics (433 questions).

Related JEE NSEP chapters

Ray Optics (48)Electrostatics (33)Rotational Motion (32)Current Electricity (25)Waves and Sound (25)Mechanical Properties of Fluids (24)Magnetic Effects of Current (23)Dual Nature of Matter (20)Work, Power and Energy (18)Semiconductors (17)Oscillations (17)Thermodynamics (17)

Wave Optics in other exams

NEET Wave Optics (247)BITSAT Wave Optics (27)