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<p>Label This Diagram</p><p><em>Optical Interference</em></p>

Label This Diagram

Optical Interference

a - light source

b - diffraction grating

c - light

d - screen

e - antinodal fringes

f - nodal fringes

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<p>Label This Diagram</p><p><em>Optical Diffraction</em></p>

Label This Diagram

Optical Diffraction

a - n=0

b - n=1

c - n=2

d - equally spaced

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What is diffraction grating?

A piece of plastic on which a large number of slits are drawn

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Name the person who produced the first ever interference pattern for light & when

Thomas Young - 1800

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When will light produce an interference pattern?

When two light sources are coherent

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How are light sources coherent?

If they produce waves of the same wavelength and are in phase

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Where does interference occur?

At the screen

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Where does diffraction occur?

At the slit