Explain the physical and historical significance of Young\'s interference experi

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Explain the physical and historical significance of Young's interference experiment. Besides the historical meaning of this discovery, include the following in your writing: A description of the diffraction of light by a narrow slit and the effect of narrowing the slit. With sketches, describe the production of the interference pattern in a double - slit interference experiment using monochromatic light. Sketch the doubleslit interference pattern, identifying what lies at the center and what the various bright and dark fringes are called (such as "first side maximum" and "third order").

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The problems wants you to write the following things step wise.

1. What phyisical phenonmenon was proved by this experiment.

2. Describe fraunhofer diffraction

3. Describe intereference as a funtion of slit seperation. You can also draw a graph to fetch more marks.

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