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Huygens Principle, Young's Double Slit Experiment, Diffraction at a Single Slit and the board questions built on them — roughly 7 marks of the paper.

What this chapter covers

1Huygens Principle
2Young's Double Slit Experiment
3Diffraction at a Single Slit
4Polarisation and Brewster's Law

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Practice Questions
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Sample Paper
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In the notes

Topics covered

01Huygens Principle12:22
02Young's Double Slit Experiment29:18
03Diffraction at a Single Slit32:34
04Polarisation and Brewster's Law27:50

After this chapter you can

Explain huygens principle without reading from the book
Present young's double slit experiment in the format the marking scheme rewards
Attempt every previous year question set on this chapter

Marks: 7
PYQs: 7
Video: 1h 42m

Then do the work

Practice

Important questions: 26
Board questions: 12
Numericals & applications: 10

Open practice set

Prepare

Board appearances of Wave Optics by year
Year	Asked as	Marks
2025	Case based	4
2024	MCQ set	2
2023	Long answer	2
2022	Short answer	6
2021	Case based	6

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