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Question
In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slit separation is doubled. To maintain the same fringe spacing on the screen, the screen-to-slit distance D must be changed to ______.
Options
2D
`"D"/2`
`sqrt2"D"`
`"D"/sqrt2`
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Solution
In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slit separation is doubled. To maintain the same fringe spacing on the screen, the screen-to-slit distance D must be changed to 2D.
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