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Engineering Physics Laboratory (Course Code: PHY119) Experiment Number: 2

This document provides instructions for an experiment to determine the wavelength of sodium light using Newton's rings. The experiment involves using a travelling microscope, sodium lamp, and Newton's rings apparatus to measure the diameter of interference fringes formed between a convex lens and glass plate. The objectives are to learn about circular interference fringes, phase changes during reflection, thin film concepts, and microscope readings. Key concepts explained include monochromatic and coherent light as well as constructive and destructive interference. Demonstration links are also provided.

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Engineering Physics Laboratory (Course Code: PHY119) Experiment Number: 2

This document provides instructions for an experiment to determine the wavelength of sodium light using Newton's rings. The experiment involves using a travelling microscope, sodium lamp, and Newton's rings apparatus to measure the diameter of interference fringes formed between a convex lens and glass plate. The objectives are to learn about circular interference fringes, phase changes during reflection, thin film concepts, and microscope readings. Key concepts explained include monochromatic and coherent light as well as constructive and destructive interference. Demonstration links are also provided.

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Engineering Physics

Laboratory
(Course Code: PHY119)
Experiment Number: 2
 
 
AIM: To find the wavelength of sodium light
by measuring the diameter of Newton rings.
1. Aim
To find the wavelength of sodium light by measuring the Diameter of Newton rings.

Equipment and Apparatus required:


A travelling microscope, a sodium lamp, Newton’s rings apparatus consisting of an optically plane glass plate and a convex lens placed in a box having an optically plane glass plate inclined at an angle of 45 0, a spherometer, a convex lens of short focal length etc.
2.Learning Objectives
(i) The students will learn about circular interference fringes.
(ii) The students will develop the understanding of phase change at reflection.
(iii) The students will understand the concept of thin films.
(iv) The students will understand the principle of reading microscope structure.
Basic Understandings

Monochromatic light:
Monochromatic light is light (optical radiation) where the optical spectrum
contains only a single optical frequency.
Coherent light:
Two wave sources are perfectly coherent if they have a constant phase difference and the same frequency. Coherence is an ideal
property of waves that enables interference.
Coherent sources are those which emits light waves of same wave length or frequency and have a constant phase difference.
Constructive interference occurs when the maxima of two waves add together (the two waves are in phase), so that the amplitude of the resulting wave is equal to the sum of
the individual amplitudes.
Destructive interference occurs when the maxima of two waves are 180 degrees out of phase: a positive displacement of one wave is cancelled exactly by a negative
displacement of the other wave. 
Demonstration link :
https://vlab.amrita.edu/?sub=1&brch=189&sim=335&cnt=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU-SeNfIRcs

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