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Wave Optics JEE Main PYQs, 2020 to 2025

Wave Optics has 84 questions in JEE Main papers from 2020 to 2025, about 14 per year across all shifts. The most asked topic is Young's Double Slit Experiment (60 questions), followed by Polarisation (11) and Single Slit Diffraction (10).

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84Total PYQs
6Years covered
5Topics
2025 Apr S2Latest paper

Wave Optics questions per year

YearQuestions
202514
202416
202313
202216
202114
202011

Topic-wise weightage

TopicQuestionsShare of chapterLast asked
Young's Double Slit Experiment6072%2025
Polarisation1113%2025
Single Slit Diffraction1012%2024
Interference in Thin Films22%2025
Huygens' Principle11%2024

Sample questions from recent papers

JEE Main 2025 · 8 Apr · Shift 2 · Young's Double Slit Experiment

In a Young's double slit experiment, the source is white light. One of the slits is covered by red filter and another by a green filter. In this case:

  1. (A)

    there shall be alternate interference fringes of red and green.

  2. (B)

    there shall be an interference pattern for red distinct from that for green.

  3. (C)

    there shall be an interference pattern, where each fringe's pattern center is green and outer edges is red.

  4. (D)

    there shall be no interference fringes.

Answer: (D)

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JEE Main 2025 · 7 Apr · Shift 1 · Polarisation

Two plane polarized light waves combine at a certain point whose electric field components are

E1=E0Sin⁡ωtE2=E0Sin⁡(ωt+π3)\begin{aligned} & E_1=E_0 \operatorname{Sin} \omega t \\ & E_2=E_0 \operatorname{Sin}\left(\omega t+\frac{\pi}{3}\right) \end{aligned}

Find the amplitude of the resultant wave.

  1. (A) 1.7 E01.7 \mathrm{~E}_0
  2. (B) E0\mathrm{E}_0
  3. (C) 0.9 E00.9 \mathrm{~E}_0
  4. (D) 3.4 E03.4 \mathrm{~E}_0

Answer: (A)

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JEE Main 2025 · 28 Jan · Shift 2 · Interference in Thin Films

A thin transparent film with refractive index 1.4 , is held on circular ring of radius 1.8 cm . The fluid in the film evaporates such that transmission through the film at wavelength 560 nm goes to a minimum every 12 seconds. Assuming that the film is flat on its two sides, the rate of evaporation is ____________ π×10−13 m3/s\pi\times 10^{-13} \mathrm{~m}^3 / \mathrm{s}.

Answer: 54

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JEE Main 2024 · 5 Apr · Shift 2 · Single Slit Diffraction

In a single slit experiment, a parallel beam of green light of wavelength 550 nm550 \mathrm{~nm} passes through a slit of width 0.20 mm0.20 \mathrm{~mm}. The transmitted light is collected on a screen 100 cm100 \mathrm{~cm} away. The distance of first order minima from the central maximum will be x×10−5 mx \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~m}. The value of xx is :

Answer: 275

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JEE Main 2024 · 31 Jan · Shift 1 · Huygens' Principle

Two waves of intensity ratio 1:91: 9 cross each other at a point. The resultant intensities at that point, when (a) Waves are incoherent is I1I_1 (b) Waves are coherent is I2I_2 and differ in phase by 60∘60^{\circ}. If I1I2=10x\frac{I_1}{I_2}=\frac{10}{x} then x=x= _________.

Answer: 13

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How many questions come from Wave Optics in JEE Main?

84 questions from 2020 to 2025, about 14 per year. In 2025 it had 14.

Which Wave Optics topics are most important for JEE Main?

By past papers: Young's Double Slit Experiment (72%), Polarisation (13%) and Single Slit Diffraction (12%) of all Wave Optics questions.

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