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ENGINEERING PHYSICS

Hitendera K Malik A K Singh

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Chapter-1 INTERFERENCE

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You would have seen beautiful colours in soap films or patch of oil floating on the surface of water. Moreover, the colour gets changed when you watch it from different angles. Did you ever try to find out the reason? In scientific language, this takes place due to the phenomenon of interference. The phenomenon of interference of light tells us about the wave nature of the light. In optics, the interference means the superposition of two or more waves which results in a new wave pattern. Here, we are talking about the interaction of waves emerging from the same source or when the frequencies of these waves are the same. In the context of light, which is an electromagnetic wave, we say that when the light from two different sources moves in the same direction, then these light wave trains superimpose upon each other. This results in the modification of distribution of intensity of light. According to the principle of superposition, this is called the interference of light.
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More precisely the interference can be defined as the interaction between two or more waves of the same or very close frequencies emitted from coherent sources (defined later), where the wavefronts are combined according to the principle of superposition. The resulting variation in the disturbances produced by the waves is called the interference pattern. Thomas Young, in 1802, explained the interference successfully in his double slit experiment.

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