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In double-slit experiment, do photon go thorough slits symmetrically? (Wave length is one 1000th of the slits distance.)
I understand the way double-slit is shown and ridges pattern calculated (e.g. https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m309-03a/m309-projects/fun/Slits.html#topic1) is by assuming two identical ...
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In double-slit experiment, if one directs coherent light from two sources into each slit separetely, is ridges pattern expected to be seen?
I've read several QA here:
Is coherent light required for interference in Young's double slit experiment?
Why can't we duplicate the double slit experiment with two parrallel sources of light.....
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Can electromagnetic waves with long wavelengths (1 kHz to 1 GHz) also be considered as Photons?
Could we conduct the Double Slit Experiment with long wavelengths (e.g. frequencies between 1 kHz and 1 GHz) and still measure through which slit the wave/particle goes?
I am sure that the ...
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In the Double Slit Experiment, what type of wave are we talking about?
I was learning about the double slit experiment and simple explanation is that there is wave interference. Although I do not quite understand the wave bit. We know that light is a wave.
But in the ...
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Why do cylindrical waves create an interference pattern (and sphericals do not)?
I have read this:
https://phys.org/news/2011-01-which-way-detector-mystery-double-slit.html
It says that elastic scattering creates cylindrical waves, and that creates interference pattern, and the ...
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Double slit experiment and electromagnetic waves
In the double slit experiment you can see the electromagnetic waves as curved lines that go through both slits and interfere with each other.
But, don't electromagnetic waves look like this.
So, ...
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Photons, wave-like character [closed]
Is it safe to assume photons really are not waves, per se? It would seem to make more sense if the electric and magnetic fields surrounding the photon are responsible for "wavelike" character, but in "...
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Relation between the electromagnetic wave and quantum wavefunction
I have been thinking about this for a while. I think I misunderstood something about the basics of quantum waves.
Let's look at light diffracted in conditions similar to the double slit experiment. ...
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