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GATE Optical Physics: diffraction: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, rectangular and circular aperture, Rayleigh criterion of resolution, diffraction from double slit and many slits. dispersion by a grating – Previous Year Questions

1 GATE previous year questions on diffraction: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, rectangular and circular aperture, Rayleigh criterion of resolution, diffraction from double slit and many slits. dispersion by a grating (Optical Physics, Physics) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 PH Q38 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A student sets up Young’s double slit experiment with electrons of momentum p incident normally on the slits of width w separated by distance d. In…