suppose you conduct an experiment where you shine plane waves of light through a small slit....

suppose you conduct an experiment where you shine plane waves of light through a small slit. how would the intensity graph of this experiment differ than that of a double slit of similar width?

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Both in double and single slits, there is a difference in the interference pattern. Two separate wavefronts originate from two coherent sources (separate slits in this case). Secondary wavelets originating from different parts of the same wavefront constitute diffraction.
The region of minimum intensity is perfectly dark in double slit, with alternating bands of maxima and minima. The fringes (bright (maxima) or dark bands (minima)) are of equal width in double slit, whereas in single slit the pattern is that there is a central maximum fringe, which has 2 x the width of the subsidiary maxima; also, the intensity of all positions of maxima are of the same intensity in a double slit, however the intensity decreases successively along the subsidiary maxima from the central maximum fringe.

genius_generous answered 6 months ago

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