LabScene:Young's Double Slit

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Research Status: Concluded

Title: Double-Slit Experiment

Original Researcher: Thomas Young

Date: 1803

Published Article: On the nature of light and colours

Question to be answered: Does light behave like waves as predicted by the wave theory of light?

Hypothesis: If light has a wave nature then it should exhibit interference patterns as seen with water.

Predicted outcome: When light is guided through two slits in close proximity an interference pattern will result similar to the why it occurs with water.

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Refs: 1) OS Heavens & RW Ditchburn, Insight into Optics, 1991, John Wiley & sons, Chichester. 2) Max Born & Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics, 1999, Cambridge University Press

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