Young’s Double Slit Experiment
This text discusses interference; take-home experiment: using fingers as slits; amplitude of interference fringe; and applying the science practices: double slit experiment. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- axis of a polarizing filter
- birefringent
- Brewster’s angle
- Brewster’s law
- coherent
- confocal microscopes
- constructive interference for a diffraction grating
- constructive interference for a double slit
- contrast
- destructive interference for a double slit
- destructive interference for a single slit
- diffraction
- diffraction grating
- direction of polarization
- horizontally polarized
- Huygens’s principle
- incoherent
- interference microscope
- optically active
- order
- phase-contrast microscope
- polarization
- polarization microscope
- polarized
- Rayleigh criterion
- reflected light that is completely polarized
- thin film interference
- ultraviolet microscope
- unpolarized
- vertically polarized
- wavelength in a medium
- UV microscope