Physics 2135 (Engineering Physics II)

Lecture 23ab: Double Slit Interference, Single Slit Interference

Objectives:
  • Recall facts about waves from Physics I
  • Understand how the double slit experiment produces an interference pattern
  • Calculate the conditions for constructive and destructive interference in the double slit experiment
  • Calculate intensities in the double slit experiment
  • Calculate positions of single-slit diffraction minima
  • Calculate single-slit diffraction intensity