Double slit Definition and 825 Threads

Homework Statement A double-slit experiment is performed with light of wavelength 558.0 nm. The bright interference fringes are spaced 1.84 mm apart on the viewing screen. What will the fringe spacing be if the light is changed to a wavelength of 335.0 nm? Homework Equations d=...

Homework Statement Two slits are 0.158mm apart. A mixture of red light (wavelength = 665nm) and yellow-green light (wavelength = 565nm) fall onto the slits. A screen is located 2.2m away. Find the distance between the third-order red fringe and the third-order yellow-green fringe...

There is something I never understood in the double slit. Here is a picture. http://www.physics.colostate.edu/users/pavol/anims/physics/double_slit.gif When the particle is emitted from a source, if it truly acts like a wave, then wouldn't it sometimes hit the wall in-between the slits...

I was reading about the classic Young's double slit experiment and I had a few questions regarding secondary wavelets a.k.a Huygen's wavelets. I proceed with the following questions assuming you know the experiment. The crucial point behind the explanation to the experiment is that light...

In the double slit experiment, Bohmian Mechanics http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/#2s" the paths of real particles traveling from the two slits to the detector to look like something like this: The above image shows particles traveling in non-straight paths. The diagram below...

Homework Statement A blue laser beam of wavelength 470nm (in air) is incident on two narrow slits separated by .2mm and produces an interference pattern on a screen located 2m away from the two slits. Find the angular position (in degrees) of the 1st dark fringe. Can you use the small angle...

Homework Statement When they say the first and third bright fringe, do they mean m=1 and m=0..do we count m=0? And likewise for when they say first and third dark fringe, is it m=1.5 and m=3.5? How would we know when to count m=0? Thanks Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

Homework Statement Could anyone help me to explain how the intensity of the double Slit pattern works because I'm looking at the formula and I'm really confused...Homework Equations I=4Icos^2(phi/2) A=2Ecos(phi/2)The Attempt at a Solution

I've been wondering for a long time whether or not the theory that one electron can be in two places at the same time holds near the singularity of a black hole?

Homework Statement In a double-slit interference experiment, the wavelength is 579 nm, the slit separation is 0.12 mm, and the screen is 30.0 cm away from the slits. What is the linear distance between adjacent maxima on the screen? [Hint: Assume the small angle approximation is justified and...

what the advantage of decreasing the distance between slits in a Young double slit experiment? i think to have the laser move closer to the screen

Hi, In young experiment, say one slit is completely closed, what observed is looks like a single band light. But why is not a diffraction pattern? I wonder whether the reason is, the slit width(don't mean distance between slits) more narrow than single slit diffraction in Young experiment?

Homework Statement Hey guys, I'm working on a problem with a double slit electron diffraction experiment. There is a beam of electrons shooting through two slits onto a screen. When only slit 1 is open, the number of electrons hitting the screen is 25 times the number of electrons hitting...

[Solved] Optics - Double Slit Irradiance of Fringes Homework Statement A double slit diffraction pattern is formed using mercury green light at 546.1nm. Each slit has a width of 0.100mm (= b), slit separation is 0.400mm (=a). The pattern reveals that the fourth-order interference maxima are...

i've always been curious...WHY did somebody come up with the experiment? why did they think anything special would happen? hope this doesn't sound stupid :)

Homework Statement A mask with 2 slits is illuminated by a light of 589nm wavelength. Slits each have a 0.1mm width separated (centre to centre) by 3.0mm. Calculate the distance between adjacent bright fringes on the screen if a screen is placed 5.0m away from the slits. Homework...

Homework Statement In a Young's double slit experiment, a pair of slits is encased in a rectangular block of glass (n=1.52), and glass block is surrounded by air, as shown below. The glass block is illuminated by coherent light (k = 660 nm) from a laser, as shown. The beam enters the block at...

I read that quantum particles (like photons) travel as waves of probability, but when they encounter other quantum particles, the probability waves break down, and the photons assume properties of particles. An example given of this is: if you fire a single photon from point A, to a point B...

Just a bit confused/ need confirmation of what's happening. We shine light at the double slit and see interference patterns. Place two opposite 1/4 waves plate, so that we have which way information, in front of the slits. This causes the pattern to disappear. 1. Under what condition does...

What is the force that acts on a photon that causes its path to deflect when the second slit of the double slit experiment is opened? Assuming that my understanding of the experiment is in the ball park. With one slit open the photon lands in one place but with two slits open it lands in...

Homework Statement Coherent light is passed through two narrow slits whose separation is d. The second-order bright fringe in the interference pattern is located at an angle of theta. If electrons are used instead of light, what must the kinetic energy of the electrons be if they are to...

Homework Statement In a Youngs dbl. slit experiment using green light the fringe width was observed to be 0.20mm.if red light replaces green light,what will be the fringe width? Homework Equations hmm lambda=ay/d but (no info is given on rest)=/ wavelengths:green=5.2x10^-7m...

Just a quick q, My book says that to make the light source young used to be coherent, he passed it thru a SINGLE slit THEN passed it thru a double slit. Why would he do that? couldn't he just put the light source directly to the double slit? I thought all light from a single source was...

Lets say that I were to perform the double slit experiment so that at anyone time only a single photon passes through the double slit at a time. Now let's say that I were now to place a polaroid film over each of the slits so that each piece of the film was orthogonal to the other. Now in front...

Can anyone direct me to any version of the double-slit experiment which used only electrons with aligned spin axes? If you can't direct me to an experiment, can you postulate how or if the double-slit experiment might be different using such electrons? Thanks!

As I'm not learning quantum mechanics formally in a classroom, I have no real experience with the matter, or a teacher to whom I can pose my questions. There are a few experiments I'd like to run as well, but no way to do so. In any case, I'm hoping that someone else has run these experiments...

Homework Statement Light from a helium-neon laser (wave length 633 nm) is used to illuminate two narrow slits. The interference pattern is observed on a screen 3.1 m behind the slits. Twelve bright fringes are seen, spanning a distance of 50 mm What is the spacing, in mm, between the slits...

I need to recreate this experiment. It doesn't have to be exactly the same, nor does it have to use very high tech and expensive equipment, it just has to be able to demonstrate interference patterns created by light. I cannot find any specifications on how to build this experiment, and I don't...

While completing my problem set for this chapter, I came across 5 problems I could not solve. I thought it might be rather annoying if I posted six posts, so I'm putting all my work and such here. I don't expect one person to try to help me with all of them, just one or two at a time will do...

I was hoping to get some comments on my interpretation of the double slit experiment. I realize that this is a bit long, and probably not worth the effort to read, much less reply, but if anyone cares to give me some feedback, I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the whole...

S1 and S2 are two coherent sources of light in a Young's two slit experiment separated by a distance 0.50mm, and O is a point equidistant from S1 and S2. O is on screen A which is 0.80m from the slits. When a thin parallel-sided piece of glass G of thickness 3.6*10^-6 m is placed near S1...

I have a very basic question about the double slit experiment. Some websites that I have seen state that the simple act of measuring which slit the particle goes through, is enough to collapse the wave function, and it isn't necessary for anyone to actually observe the results of that...

Hi A question that came up today that I do not know how to answer. We were discussing (High School) the double slit experiment and that electrons show interference patterns too. A student asked if the thickness of the double slit slide mattered. ie if the slits were a metre deep ... would...

I have a problem with the outcome of the Double Slit experiment , in that it was concluded that when under observation the electron particles behaved differently to when not directly under observation - conclusivly stating that it was the ACT of observing that changed the electron behaviour in...

Homework Statement In a youngs double slit experiment,if the slit widths are in the ratio 1:2,the ratio of intensities at maxima and minima will be ? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

I've been thinking about the double slit experiment - the one with single photons going thru two slits forming an interference pattern never the less. Now, one thing i was unable to find clarification for is the claim that placing a detector even in just one of the slits to find out thru...

1. Homework Statement the two slit of a double slit each have a width of 0.140mm and a distance between centers of 0.840mm. what the approximate intensity of orders m=o to m=6? 2. Homework Equations i want to use the I/Io = (E/Eo)^2 but some book use I = 4Ao^2sin^2...

Homework Statement In a Young's double slit experiment the width of each slit is a, the distance between the centers of the slits is d, and the 10th interference maximum to the right of the central maximum is the first missing maximum. a) Find the ratio of the slit separation distance to the...

Homework Statement White light spans the wavelength range be- tween about 400 nm and 700 nm. If white light passes through two slits 0.656 mm apart and falls on a screen 1.7 m from the slits, what is the distance between the first-order violet and the first-order red fringes? Answer...

We will not get an interference right? Why? Because the electron interacts with the system? Or the "measurement" forces the wave function to collapse? What if we put a black cloth on the chamber and only see the photographic film? What if we place the chamber before the slits. What if we bring...

Am I correct in thinking that the act of observing which slit a "particle" goes through causes the wave function to collapse, ergo making the source of the "particle" we detect on the back screen to actually be on our detection side of the slits rather than the emitter side? I've drawn it, in...

I'm thinking about using two slits, a webcam and a laser to calculate distances for a project. Usually you measure the distances between maxima but this can be easily measured in a dark room using Matlab and it's image processing routines. I can create the slits and accurately measure them...

Hello, I'm wondering how the two slit experiment interacts with entanglement. Here's an ascii art picture of the standard two slit experiment: | | | | #...

So, after reading a few different explanations of the double slit experiment, there is one aspect I am confused about. The set up is that you shoot out electrons/photons/whatever at a wall with two small slits. The particles pass through one slit, the other, or both if you're not looking...

Two lasers are shining on a double slit, with slit separation . Laser 1 has a wavelength of , whereas laser 2 has a wavelength of . The lasers produce separate interference patterns on a screen a distance 5.80 away from the slits. Part A Which laser has its first maximum closer to the...

hi, I'm new to this forum and mainly because i have some questions regarding a book i am reading. Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory mainly he explains the view that Feynman have on the double slit experiment as...

If you send a photon towards some wall it will bounce back (or in some cases be absorbed), why don't the photons bounce back if you shoot photons at the middle of the double slit experiment? Do the photons have to be released at "random", and not in the middle? How's the experiment performed...

Homework Statement I apologize for the blurriness in my title, I couldn't find anything better to fit within the length limit. The problem I'm stuck with, paraphrased, is to derive the formula for the diffraction pattern of a double slit, as found in the Young experiment, from the Fraunhofer...

I propose a setup to distinguish between the quantum interpretation and the wave interpretation of the double slit experiment. Briefly, they are: Quantum The photon gun fires a photon that travels through either slit A or slit B, then hits a detector cell registering a spot in the...

Homework Statement We have the wavelength of 550nm and the distance (d) of 0.120mm. I need to calculate the the angle q. The diffirent parts of this questions corresponds to the diffirent order of n. a) Being n=1 b) n=5 c) n=10 Given variables; Wavelength = 550nm = 550*10^-9m d=0.120mm...