Young’s experiment

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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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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: OpenStax - College Physics 2e - Youngs Double Slit Experiment.	Grace Young	Aug 22, 2026
	Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - University Physics Volume 3 - Youngs Double-Slit Interference.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 13, 2026
	Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - College Physics chapters 1-17 - Youngs Double Slit Experiment.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 06, 2025
	Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Young experiment.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 09, 2025
	Add new Web site: Government of Canada - Carbon monoxide: Overview.	Emily Rodriguez	Aug 28, 2025
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - European Journal of Physics - The classical double slit experimenta study of the distribution of interference fringes formed on distant screens of varied shapes (PDF).	Grace Young	Jul 19, 2025
	Add new Web site: The Physics Classroom - Young's Experiment.	Emily Rodriguez	May 21, 2025
	Add new Web site: Al-Mustaqbal University - Young?s double-slit experiment (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	Jan 15, 2025
	Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Young's Double-Slit Experiment.	Gloria Lotha	May 29, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Maryland - Department of Physics - The double-slit experiment.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - Young�s Double Slit Experiment.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 28, 2023
	Add new Web site: University of New South Wales - Physclips - Young's experiment.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 11, 2023
	Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Young's double slit introduction.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 06, 2023
	Add new Web site: OpenStax - University Physics Volume 3 - Youngs Double Slit Experiment.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 01, 2022
	Add new Web site: Florida State University - Molecular Expressions Cell Biology - Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment.	Parul Jain	Nov 02, 2012
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998