Interference: Deffraction, single slit, grating on MCAT?

[korsibor]

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It's in Berkeley review but not in EK or princeton. Anyone knows if it's on mCAT? I am hard pressed for time so i dont want to waste my time on stuff that dont matter. I have my exam in a week.

Also, I have been having this communication error message pop-up during my AAMC tests. It says something about internet interruption and I just need to continue from where the test was interrupted. However, I never able to continue. I usually have to start all over again. Anybody else experiencing this?

 

[jaxasp]

can't say i've experienced that message, but in terms of the knowledge I would say conceptually understand that diffraction is a spreading out, I don't think you need to know anything about Young's double slit experiment or anything like that (but at the same time conceptually understand constructive/destructive)

 

[korsibor]

Thanks

 

[ldnk]

It could be, but it would give you the equations. The slit experiments are just examples of superposition essentially and the core ideas about a slit experiment would be explained in the passage. After that it is the same old. In phase/out of phase.

 

[Fort]

Taken from AAMC

Light and Geometrical Optics
A. Light and Electromagnetic Radiation
1. Concept of interference; Young double slit experiment
2. Thin films, diffraction grating, single slit diffraction
3. Other diffraction phenomena, x-ray diffraction
4. Polarization of light

So physical optics, as well as geometrical optics, is fair game.

Go to this this link for all the physical science topics to be familiar with
http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/preparing/pstopics.pdf

 

[herky010]

It's in Berkeley review but not in EK or princeton. Anyone knows if it's on mCAT? I am hard pressed for time so i dont want to waste my time on stuff that dont matter. I have my exam in a week.

I took the 6/18 PM exam and I had a question about the single slit experiment. It asked about the constructive/destructive interference expected at certain points.