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JEE Main Physics — Wave Optics Previous-Year Questions

188 JEE Main Wave Optics PYQs (2002–2026) with verified answers and step-by-step solutions.

This page collects every JEE Main Wave Optics previous-year question from Physics, 2002–2026. Each links to a full solution with a verified answer key. Click any year above to narrow the list, or open a question to study its step-by-step working and then practice it on PrepSharp's CBT player.

  1. Q12026NumericalMedium

    In a Young's double slit experiment set up, the two slits are kept 0.4 mm apart and screen is placed at 1 m from slits.…

  2. Q22026MCQMedium

    In the Young's double slit experiment the intensity produced by each one of the individual slits is I₀. The distance be…

  3. Q32026MCQMedium

    An unpolarised light is incident at an interface of two dielectric media having refractive indices of 2 (incident mediu…

  4. Q42026MCQMedium

    Which of the following are true for a single slit diffraction? A. Width of central maxima increases with increase in wa…

  5. Q52026NumericalEasy

    In single slit diffraction pattern, the wavelength of light used is 628 nm and slit width is 0.2 mm, the angular width…

  6. Q62026NumericalEasy

    Some distant star is to be observed by some telescope of diameter of objective lens a, at an angular resolution of 3.0×…

  7. Q72026MCQMedium

    In a double slit experiment the distance between the slits is 0.1 cm and the screen is placed at 50 cm from the slits p…

  8. Q82026NumericalMedium

    In a double slit experiment, when one of the slits is covered by a transparent mica sheet of refractive index 1.56, the…

  9. Q92026NumericalMedium

    An unpolarized light of intensity Io passes through polarizer and then through a certain optically active solution and…

  10. Q102026MCQMedium

    When an unpolarized light falls at a particular angle on a glass plate (placed in air), it is observed that the reflect…

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PrepSharp has 188 JEE Main Wave Optics PYQs spanning 2002–2026, each with a verified answer and a step-by-step solution.
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Wave Optics appears regularly in JEE Main Physics. Practising its previous-year questions is one of the most reliable ways to cover the patterns the exam repeats.
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