AAMC: Diffration, Slit Experiments, Thin-Film, etc.

[justadream]

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Are we expected to memorize all the formulas for this?

As in, the angles at which you get destructive/constructive interference, how to calculate how far it is between intensity peaks, thin-film formula for determining where you get interference, etc?






[Originally posted in MCAT study forum but I thought it'd get more responses here]

 

[justadream]

Related Question: Did anyone find the TBR passages on optics to be extra hard? IMO, it's one of the top 2 hardest sections in all of TBR (Metabolic Pathways section in TBR Bio might top it).

 

[BrothaX]

I think they took those off the 2013 outline.. but just check the 2013 outline from AAMC to be sure

 

[justadream]

@BrothaX

Nope, unfortunately still on there.

Concept of interference, Young’s double - slit experiment
Thin films, diffraction grating, single - slit diffraction
Other diffraction phenomena, X- ray diffraction