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Also Known As Young’s double slit

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Figure 3: Young's experiment (see text).
Figure 4: Interference fringes obtained in Young's experiment (see text).
Diagram of Young's double-slit experiment: light from one source passes through two slits, producing overlapping waves that create alternating bright constructive-interference and dark destructive-interference bands on a screen, matched by an intensity curve.
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Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist