Young's double slit experiment

[MCAT4life]

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How important is this? This wasn't covered in either Nova or TPR books, I remember vaguely doing this in physics lab, but I'm having trouble understanding this now lol... does anyone have a good link out there that teaches this?

 

[TACMON]

I would say that you should know the difference in constructive and destructive interference. As well as the formulas: dsin(theta)=m(lamda) and dsin(theta)=(m + .5)lamda

 

[kehlsh]

Oh man, I just took Physics class and I don't remember this. FML T.T

 

[pineappletree]

Hi, what did m stand for in those equations??


These were not covered in the BR...
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[LostInStudy]

They were covered in BR. I think most people use n instead of m. It stands for the whole number of wavelengths.

-LIS

 

[MCAT4life]

I have TBR and usually just do passages out of it on problem areas for physics. I usually do pretty good on the lenses section so I really didn't do that this much. I just tried to read the Young's double slit section out of TBR and that was the most confusing 20 min of physics reading ever lol... I might give 1 more crack at it before the test, but my brain is just not working very good right now to apprehend this lol..

 

[crazyasian]

If you understand the basics of diffraction on a qualitative basis you should be fine. Most likely those formulas would be given to you in the passage.