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35.

59: a) Adding glass over the top slit increases the effective path length from that slit
to the screen. The interference pattern will therefore change, with the central maximum
shifting downwards.
2d
b) Normally the phase shift is   sin  , but now there is an added shift from the
λ
glass, so the total phase shift is now
2πd  2Ln 2L  2d 2L(n  1) 2
 sin      sin    ( d sin   L(n  1)).
λ  λ λ  λ λ λ
  
So the intensity becomes I  I 0 cos
2
 I 0 cos 2  (d sin   L(n  1)) .
2 λ 

c) The maxima occur at ( d sin   L(n  1))  m  d sin   mλ  L( n  1)
λ

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