Interference Definition and 999 Threads

I have found on the internet an article from Gizmodo magazine, in which a LIGO team member answer some readers’ questions, regarding gravitational waves, and found a specific question and answer in that article, to be very interesting. The question relates to weather gravitational waves are...

In a double slit experiment, is diffraction caused by interference or interference is caused by diffraction?

In https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437109010401, the author claims that the interference pattern obtained in the double-slit experiment does not need a wave description of matter, and can be accounted for by the "quantized momentum transfer" from the slits to the electron...

Homework Statement A thin (460 nm) film of kerosene (n=1,20) is spread out on water (n = 1,30). Light hits the (horizontal) surface of the film coming (almost) perpendicularly from above. A diver underwater, below the film. a) Find out the visible wavelength reflected into air that has the...

Hello, I have a question about interference. I have interference from thin film, i.e. fringes of equal inclination. How I can calculate the radius of sample curvature from the interference pattern? How I can to determine the maximum radius of curvature of the surface at which interference will...

A thin slice is cut out of a glass cylinder along a plane parallel to its axis. The slice is placed on a flat glass plate as shown in the figure. The observed interference fringes from this combination shall be ______. My thoughts The thin slice will act as thin film but of half cylindrical...

Destructive interference is excellently demonstrated in Young's double slit experiment, where dark regions are formed due the waves being out of phase. However, what really confuses me is that unpolarised light has intensity. Assuming we had perfectly unpolarised light, as in where the...

Homework Statement Two identical loudspeakers are driven in phase by the same amplifier at a frequency of 680 Hz. The speakers are 4.6 m apart. An observer stands 9 m away from one of the speakers as shown. The observer then starts moving directly towards the closest speaker. How far does the...

In most textbook/internet explanation of light coherence, it gives two conditions 1) monochromatic light, same frequency. 2) light in phase or constant phase difference. Only with the two conditions can light interference pattern be observed in the double slit experiment. But this cannot be...

I am trying to understand the following: 1. Have gravitational wave constructive and deconstructive interference phenomena already been observed or is it that only after making LIGO kind of experiments more advanced, that we might be able to observe such phenomena in the future? 2. Can't...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2017-01-physicists-exotic-looped-trajectories-three-slit.amp Based on this I was wondering how the interference pattern with three slits instead of two would look. Is there a difference; is there more interference fringes? Or does the interference...

Imagine a standard Young's Slit experiment using photons. We obtain large, distinct interference fringes on a target screen. Then, we embed into the target screen a telescope focused on and capable of resolving the slits. The width of the lens must be greater than about one fringe to obtain...

Hello. I have a question about jammers. Based on this picture I made quickly, from what I've read online, Transmitter 2 will definitely be blocked with interference by the jammer since it's in its range. My question is, does the jammer also block Transmitter 1 and Receiver 2? Assume that the...

Homework Statement This is just a question about a question in Serway & Jewett's "Physics for Scientists and Engineers 3rd Ed". It's Objective Question 3 from Chapter 18, building on Example 18.1 from the text. Two identical loudspeakers placed 3.00 m apart are driven by the same oscillator...

I've read on page 107 of the pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=617AE275E5CECF5F0AFD69ACBC52141B?doi=10.1.1.205.6529&rep=rep1&type=pdf that . Thus it seems that there are three different interference patterns. 1: We do not try to detect the electron passing through the...

Homework Statement Two in-phase loudspeakers, which emit sound in all directions, are sitting side by side. One of them is moved sideways by 3.0 m, then forward by 4.0 m. Afterward, constructive interference is observed 1/4 and 3/4 of the distance between the speakers along the line that joins...

Homework Statement question (iii) 2. Homework Equations D=sd/λ (where D is the distance from slit to screen, s is the distance to the central maxima, and d is the slit separation)[/B] The Attempt at a Solution I plugged the values s=0.3*10^(-3), d=4.5*10^(-3) and λ=633*10^(-9), and got the...

Can we could interfere electron with photon, this question is come from logic both are waves. Is anyone did that before.?(I know that electron isn't a scalar wave)

Interference (trying to measure) single "particles" in a double slit experiments causes them to discontinue wave like behaviour and perform as "particles". Has the consequence of a series of interference with single "particles" been mapped when they arrive at the detector, and does any such...

The Attempt at a Solution The solution I keep coming up with is (G) , but the solution sheet says it is (C). I assumed it was (G) because since the slit width is halved the central maximum is bigger so I assumed that X would now be part of the central maximum. Therefore the intensity would be I_0.

Mentor note: Thread moved from Adv. Physics Homework 1. Homework Statement Light is incident normally from air onto a liquid film that is on a glass plate. The liquid film is 174 nm thick, and the liquid has index of refraction 1.60. The glass has index of refraction n = 1.50. Calculate the...

Hi. A beam of previously unpolarized or diagonally polarized doesn't create an interference pattern behind a double slit if there is a vertically and horizontally oriented polarizer behind either slit. The classical explanation is that the electric field is a vector perpendicular to the...

Hello, I've got two computers that are in separate rooms and I have placed plastic conduit through the small space above the ceiling. Which will have a USB data cable, an Ethernet network cable, and a HDMI cable inside. The conduit length is about 8m long. And I was wondering if this setup could...

Why is it so difficult to detect interference patterns with larger objects in the double slit experiment(e.g. bacteria)?

1. Problem Statement: A transparent film has thickness 0.00325 cm, refractive index= 1.4. Find a) order of interference at theta=0° and b) the first four angles at which red light 6500 A will form bright light fringes. Ans:[ a)-100 ; b) - 5.73°, 9.94°, 12.84°...

Hello. Let's suppose that we have a Michelson interferometer to study interference patterns of light. This time we use plane waves. If we set the whole thing up so that the two separated beams have a phase difference of π when they superpose, destructive interference ensues. Since we're...

Homework Statement This is a 2 part question. I have a follow up question from the problem 1. A sheet of glass having an index of refraction of 1.40 is to be coated with a 187-nm thick film of material having a refractive index of 1.55 such that yellow light with a wavelength of 580nm (in...

In those experiments demonstrating quantum interference which rely on a beam splitter to create a superposition of a photon taking different paths, what would happen if one made a sufficient "measurement" of the momentum of the beamsplitter itself? Would or should it destroy the interference...

I've recently come across this problem: Answer true or false. If light shines through 2 slits, will the diffraction pattern always be within the interference pattern. I don't understand this question, however. How can the interference and diffraction pattern be separated in this situation...

Homework Statement In the figure below, Two wave sources, M and N, are vibrating in phase on the surface of water and generate waves of wavelength λ. Which of the following values for the distances MP and NP will result in minimum disturbance at a particular point P on the surface of the water...

Dear all, For my students, I'm currently trying out some experiments they can do to simulate acoustic processes. One of the topics that we will be discussing is that of standing waves. Although I have never done it before--I come from a completely different background--I want to create...

Homework Statement Which of the following statements is correct? a. coherent sources are not needed to produce interference fringes b. two coherent light sources do not always produce bright and totally dark fringes on a screen c. the atoms in a tungsten filament lamp produce coherent light...

Hello, Many of you are familiar with the homework problem that goes like the below, and though straightforward to solve in most general physics homework sets, I need to help getting it to work, which is not so easy in real-life. Consider two speakers separated by 2.0 meters. Find the points...

Hey :) I measured the transmission of blue visible light (350-550nm) through lithiumdisilicate ceramics with an ulbricht ball and an spectrometer. The light source was a led dental curing unit (bluephase style). The light guide was positioned direct on the ceramics. Now I wanted to test...

Homework Statement Homework Equations Path difference is nλ at maxima, (n+0.5)λ at minima The Attempt at a Solution I think the phase difference between S1 and S2 is not 0 anymore, because the wave effectively takes a longer distance by going through S2. Thus, there is no longer a central...

Homework Statement My question is at https://imgur.com/a/lDOUzjY . The de Broglie wavelength of the atoms in question is 45 pm. The distance from the slits to the detection plane is 1.95m. Each slit width is 1 micrometer. The distance between the slits is 8 micrometers. 2. Homework Equations...

Homework Statement Between two pieces of glass (##n_1=1.70##), there is a thin film of water (##n_2=1.33## and width ##d=1 \mu m##). If there is normal-incidence of white light on the water surface, find: (a) which wavelenghts can be seen in the light transmitted (answer: 667 nm,533 nm,444 nm...

Homework Statement You are working with the mineral fluorite (CaF2, n=1.43) and have a sample that is coated with a layer of liquid 158 nm thick. For various wavelengths of visible light incident normal to the surface of the liquid, you observe very strong reflection for green light (λ = 510...

From a practical standpoint, can we combine two (or more) lasers tuned to almost-but-not-quite identical frequencies to create distance-specific illumination? For instance, say we have a 1 micron laser and a 0.9999 micron laser which we combine through some beam-combiner optics. In theory I...

Homework Statement Monochromatic light of wavelength, λ is traveling in air. The light then strikes a thin film having an index of refraction n1 that is coating a material having an index of refraction n2. If n2 is larger than n1, what minimum film thickness will result in minimum reflection of...

Homework Statement Two slits (of width ##a=39 \mu m##) are lighted up with a monocromatic wave of ##\lambda=632,8 nm##. The distance between slits and the screen id ##D=4 m##. The distance between the slits id ##d=195 \mu m##. In front of the slits there are a convergent lens with focal length...

hi i want to design michelson interferometer device for measuring small distance movement i am using laser diode with a wavelength 635 nm and power 3 mw can anyone tell me how can i decide the dimensions (from source to beam splitter , for beam splitter to fixed mirror , from beam splitter to...

Radio waves pass through everywhere without interacting with each other and that enables us to hear different phone calls and radios without disturbance. However, we do hear some noise sometimes because different signals interfere with each other. How are both of the last two statements true (if...

If it is wrong can you please pinpoint where i am going wrong. Thank you. 1. Homework Statement https://imgur.com/a/0STmmWt (uploaded picture because it has a diagram) Homework Equations To sense destructive interference , the person must be one half wavelength (0.5λ) closer or farther from...

Homework Statement 1. Homework Statement [/B] The displacement y of standing wave that is obtained by a superposition of waves : Y1 = 3 sin (2##\pi##(0.5t - 0 25 x)) Y2 = 3 sin (2##\pi##(0.5t + 0 25 x))Homework Equations Formula for standing waves Y = 2Asinkx coswt The Attempt at a Solution Y1...

I have a question regarding a theoretical analysis of Ultrasonic waves : The next picture represents a system of transducers sitting on fixed boards: Datum: * there are 4 transducers ( represented by blue color , indexed by letter ' T ' ) , each outputting Ultrasonic wave (represented by...

I collected this data by moving a sound level meter slowly through a total length of 0,75 meter between two speakers pointing towards each other. The wavelength of the sine waves was 0,343 meters and the frequency was 1000 Hz. The sound level meter measured the sound in dbA 20 times a second...

Homework Statement Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I don't know how to do part d. For di, i know that separation of arm d should be small in order to have spatial coherence. For dii, what is the meaningful criterion, can I say the primary max of blue light lies on the first zero...

Homework Statement Two speakers A and B, 2.00 m apart, produce a sine wave at the same frequency and phase. A microphone is placed on the line BC perpendicular to AB, at a distance x from B. The speed of sound is v=344 m/s. For a frequency ƒ low enough, there will be no destructive...

Hi guys I am having trouble determining a quite spot based on where you stand in respect to distance from the speakers. I have solved the question below but I need someone to explain to me how the "n" value can be used to determine a quite or not-quite spot. Am I looking for whole numbers? If n...