VIVA Questions

Bar pendulum experiment

1. What is a bar pendulum?

2. A simple pendulum demonstrates which type of motion?

Answer. A simple pendulum demonstrates periodic motion.

3. What is periodic motion.

4. Define Radius of gyration and Moment of Inertia with Units.

5. Does a change in the temperature affect the time period?

6. Advantages of Bar pendulum over simple pendulum.

7. What is restoring force.

8. Define Oscillation. What is plane of vibrations.

9. From where length of bar pendulum measured.

10. Define g. Define Frequency.

Planck’s constant Experiment

1. Mechanism of light emission in LED.
2. Threshold voltage
3. Value of Planck’s constant with Unit
4. Forward bias reverse bias potential barrier, Depletion region.
5. Which material do we use in the LED?
6. What do you mean by two different energies eV and hv equal, what is the condition
that they satisfy in the LED?
7. How are photons emitted from the LED and from which section of the LED?
8. Why does not LED starts to glow immediately when you provide the forwarding bias
to that?
Numerical Aperture
1. What do you mean by numerical aperture of an optical fiber?
2. What is optical fiber.
3. Basic structure of optical fiber.
4. Advantages of optical fiber communications.
5. Total internal reflection.
6. Core, cladding in optical fibre.
7. Loss in optical fiber.
8. Single mode Graded index fibre
 Newtons Ring
1. What do mean by interference
2. Why Newtons ring are circular.
3. On which phenomenon Newtons ring experiment is based.
4. Formula for calculating wavelength in Newtons ring.
5. In Newton’s rings experiment, if we reduce the radius of curvature of a Plano convex
lens to zero, what will be effect on Newton’s rings?
6. In Newton's ring experiment, what happens if white light is used instead of
monochromatic light
7. Why is the centre of the ring dark.
8. What will happen to the diameter of ring if drop of some liquid is introduced in
between lens and glass.
9. What is the function of placing glass plate at 45°.

Refractive index of Prism

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1. What is spectrometer
2. What is diffraction.
3. How many types of diffraction are there. Difference between two.
4. Difference between interference & Diffraction.
5. What is monochromatic source of light.
6. What is function of collimator.
7. What is meant by minimum deviation.
8. Formula for R.I of prism.
9. What do mean by Angle of Prism.
10. What is meant by critical angle?
11. How does refractive index change with wave length?
12. Is it essential in your experiment to place the prism in the minimum deviation
position? If so, why?
Dispersive Power

1. What do mean by resolving power & dispersive power of an optical instrument

2. Difference between interference & Diffraction.
3. The process of splitting white light into its seven constituent colours is called……….
4. Does the angle of minimum deviation vary with the colour of light?
5. What is dispersion OF Light.
6. Which eyepiece is used in the telescope of a spectrometer.
7. On what factors, the dispersive power depends?
8. Ans. It depends upon (i) material and (ii) wavelengths of colours.
9. What is difference between a telescope and microscope?
 He-Ne Laser
1. Full form of LASER.
2. Necessary condition for LASER action.
3. Lifetime of excited state in He-Ne LASER.
4. Helium-Neon Laser emits visible light at wavelength___.
5. Ratio of He & Ne in He-Ne LASER.
6. Which type of pumping is used in the He-Ne laser
7. In Helium-Neon laser frequency of energy source is……
8. Which emission has monochromatic radiation and a single wavelength.
9. A Laser is a coherent source because…….
10. Stimulated emission rate depends on…..
11. What is order of diffraction & Zeroth order.
12. What is grating slit.

Polarimeter
1. What Is Polarimeter.
2. What do you understand from the specific rotation of sugar solution and its unit.
3. What is optical rotation.
4. Which substances are called dextro-rotatory
5. Which substances are called Laevo-rotatory?
6. What do you mean by optically active substances?
7. What is Nicol prism?
8. What are polaroids?
9. What do you mean by the plane of polarization?
10. What is the difference between the polarized and ordinary light?