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Young's Slits - Page 5 of 8

Test Your Knowledge.

Soon, you will hopefully have an opportunity to try the experiment for yourself. First, please spend a few minutes to test your understanding. This quiz runs on your computer. No record of your results is kept.

Use of the Experiment

The next page describes procedures for operation of the experiment.


Page Title Description
Background Introduction to diffraction and Young's slits.
Information Encoding This page attempts to show the similarities between the frequency content of an electrical waveform and the diffraction pattern of an object.
Project Construction Information about how the experiment was built.
Single Photon Justification Mathematical justification that the experiment can be considered to be diffracting individual photons.
Instructions Instructions for operation of the experiment.
Online Experiment The live interactive Young's slits experiment. Please read the instructions first.
Conclusion Conclusion and references.

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