Advanced Placement • College • High School / Physics
Interference and Diffraction
Students shine laser light through a double-slit aperture onto paper, measure the distances between the maxima of the resulting interference pattern, and use the principles associated with double-slit interference and diffraction to determine the spacing between the slits.
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Standards Correlations
| IB Topics | AP Topics |
|---|---|
| 4.4; 9.2; 9.3 | 6.C.3.1 |
