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Angular Width of Central Max

JEE Main asked Angular Width of Central Max 3 times in 3 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021, 2024 and 2026. It belongs to Single Slit Diffraction, in Wave Optics (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 3 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked: 3; in 3 shifts
Years: 3 of 8
First asked: 2021; last in 2026
Pattern: Frequent; across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021, 2024 and 2026. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 0 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 1 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

20261 of 9
20250 of 8
20241 of 18
20230 of 12
20220 of 24
20211 of 24
20200 of 12
20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

Angular width of central maximum
Angular spread of single slit central maximum

Difficulty

Easy 2Medium 1Hard 0

1 of the 3 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 3 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

Shifts: 25 Feb 2021, Shift 2, 1 Feb 2024, Shift 2, 2 Apr 2026, Shift 1.

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