Young’s Double Slit Experiment

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