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NEET UG 2024 · Physics · Question 12

NEET 2024 Physics, question 12

Question 12 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Physics question from Wave Optics. Its idea, YDSE with White Light, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q12 · Physics

If the monochromatic source in Young's double slit experiment is replaced by white light, then

  1. 1there will be a central bright white fringe surrounded by a few coloured fringes.Official answer
  2. 2all bright fringes will be of equal width.
  3. 3interference pattern will disappear.
  4. 4there will be a central dark fringe surrounded by a few coloured fringes.

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on YDSE with White Light

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

YDSE with White Light: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Wave Optics in ten years of NEET

15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 8 of 10 papers, about 1.5 a paper. Young's Double Slit alone had 7.

Wave Optics: questions per paper

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