Students conducted a Young's experiment. Explain how pattern seen on the screen is created.
Light firstly goes through a single slit, this makes light coherent and monochromatic. Then, light diffracts on the double slit, undergoes superposition and constructively and destructively interferes creating pattern on the screen.
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