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HSPhysics 12-01 Double Slit Experiment

The document discusses the wave character of light, Huygens' Principle, and Young's Double Slit Experiment, detailing how light behaves as both a wave and a particle. It includes equations for calculating interference patterns and provides practice problems related to the double slit experiment. The document is intended for educational purposes, specifically for high school physics students.

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HSPhysics 12-01 Double Slit Experiment

The document discusses the wave character of light, Huygens' Principle, and Young's Double Slit Experiment, detailing how light behaves as both a wave and a particle. It includes equations for calculating interference patterns and provides practice problems related to the double slit experiment. The document is intended for educational purposes, specifically for high school physics students.

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Physics 12-01 The Double Slit Experiment Name: __________________

Wave Character of Light


• When ____________ interacts with object several ____________ it’s __________________, it acts like a
____________
• When ____________ interacts with ____________ objects, it acts like a ____________
Huygens’ Principle
• Every point on a ____________ front acts as a ____________ of tiny ____________ that move forward
with the same ____________ as the ____________; the wave ____________ at a later instant is the
____________ that is ____________ to the wavelets.

Young’s Double Slit Experiment


• Thomas Young showed that two overlapping
____________ waves ________________ and was able to
calculate _________________.
• Bright fringe where ℓ1 − ℓ2 = 𝑚𝜆
1
• Dark fringe where ℓ1 − ℓ2 = (𝑚 + ) 𝜆
2
• Brightness of fringes ____________
o Center fringe the ____________ and
_______________ on either side
• (a) Rays from slits S1 and S2, which make
approximately the same ____________ θ
with the horizontal, strike a distant
____________ at the ____________ spot.
• (b) The difference in the ____________
lengths of the ____________ rays is
Δℓ = 𝑑 sin 𝜃.
• (c) The angle θ is the angle at
which a ____________ fringe (m = 2,
here) occurs on either side of the
____________ bright fringe (m = 0)
𝜆
• ____________ fringe: sin 𝜃 = 𝑚
𝑑
1 𝜆
• ____________ fringe: sin 𝜃 = (𝑚 + )
2 𝑑
A laser beam (λ = 630 nm) goes through a double slit with separation of 3 μm. If the interference pattern is projected on a
screen 5 m away, what is the distance between the third order bright fringe and the central bright fringe?

Created by Richard Wright – Andrews Academy To be used with OpenStax High School Physics
Physics 12-01 The Double Slit Experiment Name: __________________
Practice Work
1. What type of experimental evidence indicates that light is a wave?
2. Does Huygens’s principle apply to all types of waves?
3. Young’s double slit experiment breaks a single light beam into two sources. Would the same pattern be obtained for two
independent sources of light, such as the headlights of a distant car? Explain.
4. At what angle is the first-order maximum for 450-nm wavelength blue light falling on double slits separated by 0.0500
mm? (OpenStax 27.6) 𝟎. 𝟓𝟏𝟔°
5. Calculate the angle for the third-order maximum of 580-nm wavelength yellow light falling on double slits separated by
0.100 mm. (OpenStax 27.7) 𝟎. 𝟗𝟗𝟕°
6. What is the separation between two slits for which 610-nm orange light has its first maximum at an angle of 30.0°?
(OpenStax 27.8) 𝟏. 𝟐𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟔 m
7. Find the distance between two slits that produces the first minimum for 410-nm violet light at an angle of 45.0°.
(OpenStax 27.9) 𝟎. 𝟐𝟗𝟎 𝛍𝐦
8. Calculate the wavelength of light that has its third minimum at an angle of 30.0° when falling on double slits separated by
3.00 μm. (OpenStax 27.10) 600 nm
9. What is the wavelength of light falling on double slits separated by 2.00 μm if the third-order maximum is at an angle of
60.0°? (OpenStax 27.11) 577 nm
10. 680 nm light is projected onto two slits separated by 0.0200 mm. What is the distance between the central bright fringe
and the second order bright fringe if the screen is 20.0 cm from the slit? (RW) 1.36 cm
11. How far is the screen from a 10.0 μm double slit if the third-order maximum is 3.0 cm from central bright fringe when
illuminated by 540 nm wavelength light? (RW) 18.3 cm

Created by Richard Wright – Andrews Academy To be used with OpenStax High School Physics

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